Nigerian athletes staged a protest in Tokyo after 10 of them were disqualified from taking part in the track and field events of the 2020 Tokyo...
There was mild tension at the Islahudeen Area, Osogbo Tuesday evening, as some yet-to-be-identified uniformed policeman allegedly shot a commercial motorcyclist. According to eyewitnesses, the...
Screenshots from videos showing the protesting youths blocking the highway and display placards with various inscriptions. Youths from the four Ogoni-speaking Local Government Areas of...
The continuous voter registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which commenced on Monday, was hampered by the protest embarked upon by some youths in...
Former Edo State Commissioner for Arts, Culture, Tourism and Diaspora Affairs, Osaze Osemwengie-Ero, has disclosed plans to lead a protest to the Italian Embassy within the...
There was palpable pressure in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday ahead of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial. Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of...
Police used pepper spray on protesters in Tunis who threw stones and demanded Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi quit, parliament be dissolved. Police and protesters have clashed...
A protest has erupted at a prison in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon against what activists said was a worsening COVID-19 outbreak at the jail, which...
The National Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) has been stopped by the national industrial court sitting in Abuja from either staging protests at various offices of...
Pensioners in Osun State on Friday protested against the former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola, who is now the current Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, over...
As monsoon session of parliament began this week, 200 protesters will gather in central New Delhi to continue their protests. Indian farmers, protesting about three new...
Following the deplorable condition of the Akure/Ado-Ekiti road, residents of Ondo and Ekiti States on Wednesday protested the abandonment of the highway after it was awarded...
Authorities of the Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have allowed form three students who protested on Monday evening to go home for...
Yoruba Nation agitators have announced plan to stage a protest in Ibadan, Oyo State on Wednesday afternoon to demand unconditional release of their embattled leader...
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has denied claims that its personnel deployed to calm protesting Kumasi Girls’ Senior High School students physically abused some of the...
The arrest of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Sunday Igboho has raised tension in the South-West region of Nigeria. Igboho was reportedly nabbed Monday night in Cotonou, Benin...
The Ghana Police Service has finally cleared campaigners of the #FixTheConutry movement to go ahead with their protest on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. It follows a...
Some students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are protesting against what they describe as exorbitant amounts being charged by private hostel...
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, held a protest against the arrest of their leader, Mazi Nnandi Kanu at the British Embassy in...
Demonstrators, many of them unmasked, are unhappy with vaccination mandate for health workers and health pass to enter public places. Police in Paris fired tear gas...
Rare demonstrations spurred by a deepening economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic have rocked Cuba in recent days. A man died during an anti-government protest on...
Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President, has commended newspaper publishers in Nigeria for supporting media freedom through a collective page one protest. GCFRNG had reported that...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has praised newspaper publishers in Nigeria for standing in support of media freedom through a collective page one...
Cubans in their thousands have stormed the streets to protest economic hardship, calling for the resignation of President Miguel Diaz-Canel. GCFRNG learnt that the protest...
Nigerian newspapers on Monday published the same headlines in protest against media regulations bills being considered at the National Assembly. The headlines titled; ‘Information Blackout’ appeared...
There was tension at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, on Monday following a protest by the taxi drivers in the Federal Capital Territory over the activities of...
By Okodili Ndidi, Abuja Not less than 22 political parties besieged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja on Friday to submit names and...
The Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has invited activists planning to protest the death of Keren Akpagher. The deceased was a Senior Secondary School...
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the Ejura Sekyedumase Assembly, Mohammed Salisu Bamba says “faceless individuals” incited the youth against him and the police prior to...
It was an uneasy day in Potiskum the commercial centre of Yobe State when members of the Tricycle Riders Association staged a peaceful protest over...
On Monday, the 5th of July 2021, the Police Command in Abia State had revealed plans by some individuals and groups of persons to stage protests...
It was an uneasy day in Potiskum the commercial centre of Yobe State when members of the Tricycle Riders Association staged a peaceful protest over...
The Senior Pastor of Dunamis Church International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche has faulted the move by some activists who stormed the church’s headquarters Along Airport...
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Monday evening set bonfires in front of the Ilobu, Irepodun local government country home of the former...
A 16-year old boy who was shot during Tuesday’s [June 29, 2021] disturbances at Ejura in the Ashanti Region, has had his right leg amputated by...
A 16-year old boy who was shot during Tuesday’s [June 29, 2021] disturbances at Ejura in the Ashanti Region, has had his right leg amputated by...
The Biafra Nations League, BNL, has revealed why they would not join the proposed protest at the Federal High Court, Abuja to demand the release...
Independent Commission for Human Rights says Farid al-Atrash was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint east of Jerusalem. A Palestinian human rights lawyer has been arrested by...
The mother of the 14-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on Saturday has expressed sorrow over her daughter’s...
The Biafra Nations League, BNL, has said it would not join in the proposed protest at the Federal High Court in demand for the release of...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Sunday, paraded 49 suspects arrested during the Saturday Oduduwa Republic rally which took place at the Gani...
The Biafra Nations League, BNL, has said it would not join in the proposed protest at the Federal High Court in demand for the release of...
Demonstrators in Ramallah chant ‘the people want the fall of the regime’ and urge Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to ‘leave’. Hundreds of Palestinians have gathered in...
Thousands demonstrate after Brazil’s top court authorises a probe into the president’s response to vaccine allegations. Thousands of people have protested across Brazil against Jair Bolsonaro’s...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, speaks during a protest in Ojota on July 3, 2021. The police in Lagos have denied killing...
Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota on Saturday, July 3, 2021. Lagos State Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu...
Istanbul, Turkey – Turkey officially withdrew on Thursday from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to prevent gender-based violence, as activists pledged to continue to fight...
A group called the Concerned Citizens of the Komenda Traditional Area has served notice of an intended demonstration over the abandoned Komenda Sugar Factory in the...
Lauretta Onochie On Wednesday, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) laid seige on the Senate. The siege was in protest against the nomination of...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday staged a protest at the National Assembly against the nomination of an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie,...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday staged a protest at the National Assembly against the nomination of an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie,...
Senate Minority Leader Enyinnaya Abaribe and National Leader of the PDP Uche Secondus during the protest at NASS gate. Leaders of the main opposition party,...
The apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has called for calm over the re-arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. GCFRNG...
Two persons have been confirmed dead after some residents of Ejura in the Ashanti Region clashed with a joint team of police and soldiers on Tuesday....
Aggrieved youths in Imo protested against the Niger-Delta Development Commission on June 28, 2021. Eyitope Kuteyi, Owerri Youths from the oil producing communities of Ohaji/Egbema...
A student of the College of Education, Gidan Waya in Jemaa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been shot and killed following a protest that...
Some residents in Ejura in the Ashanti Region have poured onto the streets to protest the death of a social activist, Ibrahim Muhammed. The deceased, believed...
Students of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, protest over the increase in tuition fees. A student of the College of Education, Gidan Waya in...
The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed that one student of College of Education Gidan waya Kafanchan in Kaduna State died after sustaining injuries following a...
A student of the Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, was shot dead during a protest on Monday....
Major exercise involving thousands of troops, dozens of ships to begin amid tensions between Moscow and Kyiv. Ukraine and the United States will start a military...
Rival groups of Palestinians clashed in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday during a fourth day of protests over the death of Nizar...
Angry demonstrators clashed with Palestinian security forces during a third day of protests in the occupied West Bank over the death of an outspoken critic of...
The sudden postponement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for a medical check-up may not be unconnected to the current protest rocking his supposed destination,...
Former senator from Anambra state, Andy Uba has intimidated that he will sue Heritage Bank over the protest of the bank’s staff at his residence. Recall...
The chiefs and people of some communities in the Atwima-Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region have called on the government to fix the deplorable road network...
An aspirant in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State, Senator Andy Uba has threatened to sue Heritage Bank over a viral video showing its staff...
Medical interns at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), on Tuesday, barricaded the gates of the hospital in protest of unpaid wages as well as...
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, has waded into the controversy between students and Management of the Rivers State College of a Sciences and...
A group youths under the auspices of RevolutionNow are currently protesting on the ever-busy Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Way otherwise known as Airport Road in Abuja....
There was protest in Ogun State on Saturday as an aspirant battling certificate forgery scandal in Obafemi Owode Local Government, Adesina Ogunsola, became the chairmanship candidate...
Former members of the Taraba State House of Assembly have made known their grievances at the alleged failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the...
Former members of the Taraba State House of Assembly have expressed dismay at the alleged failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state government...
North Macedonia’s defender Stefan Ristovski takes part in an MD-1 training session at the National Arena in Bucharest on June 16, 2021, on the eve of...
The Association of Imo Sweepers (AIS) led by one Mrs Treasure, has protested six months unpaid salary. The sweepers comprising widows from the 27 LGAs of...
A young man who visited his friend in prison, has allegedly been shot dead by an armed security operative at the Okere Prison, Warri, Delta State....
A spokesman for the national strike committee says the fight for better social and economic policies will continue. The leaders of mass anti-government protests in Colombia...
Students of the Rivers State College of Health Sciences and Technology on Tuesday, blocked the mile 4 axis of the Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt in...
Oyo State chapter of Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has condemned the action of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State over his appearance at the recent...
The federal capital territory (FCT) police command has disclosed that protesting members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) were dispersed because they incited public...
United Kingdom, in celebration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day says every citizen deserves the right to protest. Recall that some Nigerians across the country trooped out on...
Men of the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday morning thwarted a June 12 protest in the Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory when they stormed...
Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde on Saturday joined the June 12 protest in his state. Makinde, a governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic...
A significant number of youths have ignored the warnings of the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike and trooped out enmasse at the Pleasure Park...
A large number of youths have stormed the Pleasure Park in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to protest bad governance in the country. Some members...
Superstar singer, Wizkid Balogun is currently taking heavy punches online after promoting his MIL docuseries amid the June 12th protest. Citizens across the country exercise their...
Popular comedian, Debo Adebayo, more popular as Mr Macaroni, has joined Lagos residents protesting at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in the Ojota area. Police had earlier...
Socio-economic activities were grounded to a halt on Saturday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, following the June 12 protest embarked upon by the youths. The...
The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) has made a u-turn on its initial decision ordering members to boycott the June 12 nationwide protest. The Osun...
As the nation celebrates June 12 as Democracy Day, Governor Dapo Abiodun has urged residents of Ogun State not to join any protest. Gov Abiodun feared...
The 24-year-old activist served nearly seven months for her role in an unauthorised assembly during anti-government protests in the city in 2019. Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow...
FILE: Students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students during a protest to demand the reopening of Tertiary Institutions by the Nigerian Government amid...
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, has advised parents and guidance to warn their wards against any unnecessary protest. This is as the command...
Mohammed Hamayel, 15, was killed during a weekly protest in the occupied West Bank village of Beita against illegal Jewish settlement. A Palestinian teenager has been...
The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, says it will not participate in the June 12 planned nationwide protest. The group noted that they were not contacted,...
A Nigerian human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has countered the decision of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to suspend its planned protest on June...
The Delta State Police Command led by CP Ari Muhammad Ali has said it will not allow miscreants to disturb the peace of the state, warning...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged Nigerian youths to shun a nationwide protest being planned for Saturday, June 12, saying it is a...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has suspended its planned June 12 nationwide protest. NANS president, Sunday Asefon, disclosed this in a statement on Friday...
A cross-section of Nigerians has opposed the statement by President Muhammadu Buhari claiming that last year’s #EndSARS protests against police brutality were aimed at removing him...
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