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  • Ghana: 3-day protests over economic hardship  ends 

    Ghana: 3-day protests over economic hardship  ends 

    With placards reading Ghana deserves better, we are tired of being voting machines or people equals power, protestors rallied in Accra.

    The 3-day #Occupy Julorbi House campaign ended on Saturday, September 23. Despite downpour and sun, demonstrators rallied for political change and economic reform.

    “We are only being Ghanaians. All we need is food, water, clothes. We want to be able to take care of our mothers and our fathers, leading member and youth activist-democracy hub, Debora Enyonam Dabor told a crowd.

    Protesters were bent on going to the seat of government, Golden Jubilee House, but the police barred their way.

    The police initially responded with force on September 21, arresting over 50 protestors, including journalists.

    “Let president Akuffo-Addo and the Ghana police service be told that anytime anyone resists peaceful change, violence change would occasion. We don’t want to engage in violence, but if they push us to the wall, we have no other option,” political activist Bernard Mornah said.

    The protest has its roots in the “Fix the Country” movement, which emerged in 2021.

    If Ghana’s government has not provided an official comment on the Occupy Jubilee House protests, its convener from Democracy Hub remained determined.

    “At the end of this path there is prosperity and liberty,” Oliver Barker Vormawor promised.

    “Liberty that the founding generation promised us. But we must not relent because the forces that seeks the downfall of this republic are alive and well. They control the institutions of government, they control the court, they control the police force, they control the military; but they cannot control the street.”

    “We have shown them that when every institution of this country is captured and co-opted and has lost its voice, the street would speak loud and louder than any point in time…”

    He told the crowd the “battle to win back the soul of” Ghana was still raging in order to change course in the path “of moral decay that [our] leaders have put [the] country on”.

    The campaign kicked off while President Nana Akufo-Addo was in New York for the UN General Assembly.

  • JUST IN: Kano residents troop out to protest against ECOWAS plan to invade Niger Republic

    JUST IN: Kano residents troop out to protest against ECOWAS plan to invade Niger Republic

    Protesters have trooped out into the streets of Kano to reject propoo use of force by ECOWAS to resolve the Niger coup crisis.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had directed military forces of the member states to be on standby.

    The protesters on Saturday embarked on the demonstration to show their displeasure at the planned military invasion of Niger Republic.

    While moving in a procession, they were chanting “Nigeriens are our brothers, Nigeriens are also our family.

    “Niger is ours, we don’t want war, war against Niger is injustice, a plot by the western forces.”

    They displayed Nigeria and Niger’s flags alongside placards, chanting anti-war catchphrases.

    This followed an intense call from different quarters, especially Northerners who believe that Nigeriens are neighbours with whom they share things in common.

  • Breaking! Protesters bring down NASS main gate(Video)

    Breaking! Protesters bring down NASS main gate(Video)

    Protesters on Wednesday brought down National Assembly main gate and forcefully gained entry in a video clip on social media networks.

    Recall that the Nigerian Labour Congress on Wednesday embarked on a protest over the fuel subsidy removal and current economic hardship in the country.

    TheNewGuru.com, (TNG) reports that the newly constructed gate could not bar the protesters.

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  • Fuel subsidy ‘wahala’: Oyo workers protest, demand palliatives, lock state Secretariat

    Fuel subsidy ‘wahala’: Oyo workers protest, demand palliatives, lock state Secretariat

    The Oyo State workers on Monday, locked the state secretariat in Ibadan to demand palliatives, upward review of pension allowances and payment of salary deduction.

    Participating in the protest are workers and pensioners under the banners of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and their affiliates.

    Led by their union leaders, the workers are also demanding payment of leave bonuses, payment of gratuities to retirees who have stagnated since the year 2021and release of promotion letters for the Years 2021 and 2022.

    Details shortly…

  • Football star, Kylian Mbappe calls for end to violent protest in France

    Football star, Kylian Mbappe calls for end to violent protest in France

    France and Paris Saint Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe has appealed to all protesters in the country to end the violent protest that erupted over the fatal shooting of a teenager by the French police.

    The 17-year-old boy, named publicly only as ‘Nahel M’, was shot at a traffic stop in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. The killing triggered consecutive nights of demonstrations across the capital and in other parts of France, many of which descended into violent clashes with police and vandalism and looting of businesses.

    Protests and burning of properties have continued despite the police officer concerned being detained and charged with voluntary homicide on Thursday. But Mbappe has taken to social media to appeal for calm on behalf of the French national team.

     

    “Like all French people, we were marked and shocked by the brutal death of young Nahel,” he wrote. “Firstly, our thoughts go out to him and his family to whom we extend our sincere condolences.

    “We cannot remain insensitive to the circumstances in which this unacceptable death has taken place.

    “Since this tragic event, we have been witnessing the expression of popular anger whose essence we understand, but whose form we cannot endorse.

  • Iraqi protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad over Quran burning

    Iraqi protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad over Quran burning

    Protesters in Baghdad stormed Swedish embassy in retaliation for the burning of the Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm, which sparked condemnation from across the Muslim countries.

    A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr remained on the premises for about 15 minutes before they left as heavy security was deployed, AFP news agency reported.

    A message on the leaflets carried by the protesters read, “Our constitution is the Quran.” Another message sprayed on the gate of the embassy compound read, “Yes, yes to the Quran.”

  • Protesters storm National Assembly to request for annulment of presidential election

    Protesters storm National Assembly to request for annulment of presidential election

    Some unidentified persons have staged a protest at the national assembly in Abuja over the just concluded general elections in the country.

    The protesters carried placards with the inscriptions such as ‘Save our Democracy’, “INEC + Corruption, Politicians are killing our Democracy,” and “INEC killing the Nigerian Democracy.”

    They called for the annulment of the presidential elections in the country.

    Some of the protesters were seen shouting on top of their voices  crying and laying curses on those who were responsible for the irregularities in the election.

    Recall that another protest had erupted 24 hours ago at the Unity Fountain on Tuesday in Abuja.

    Security personnel were immediately drafted to the scene to prevent hoodlums from hijacking the protest in the Federal Capital Territory.

     

     

  • Police warn protesters against disturbing public peace on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

    Police warn protesters against disturbing public peace on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

    The Police Command in Ogun on Friday, warned protesters against disrupting public peace on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

    The Police Spokesman in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, gave the warning while speaking with NAN, in Ota, Ogun.

    Oyeyemi said the people had the right to protest, but, they should not disrupt public peace.

    “The police will not allow people to constitute nuisance by breaking the in the state,” he said.

    The spokesman said all Area Commanders of Police had been deployed to maintain and restore peace on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.

    Angry protesters blocked the Sango-Ota, Ifo, Papa, and Itori highways on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, over refusal of petrol stations to collect the old N500 and N1,000 notes.

    A correspondent who monitored the development observed that the protesters were seen playing football on the expressway while motorists and passengers were stranded for several hours.

    A commercial driver, Mr. Tope Bankole, said most petrol stations were the major cause of the protests because they refused to collect the old N500 and N1,000 notes.

    Bankole said he had over N130,000 of the N1,000 notes, adding that he tried to used some of the money to buy petrol but the old notes were rejected.

    According to him, petrol stations are supposed to be collecting these old notes because commercial drivers can only spend the money at filling stations.

    “There would not have been problem if the filling stations were collecting the old N500 and N1,000 notes,” Bankole said.

    He said the cash crunch, inability to withdraw money from ATMs and non-acceptance of old notes by filling stations affected the poor masses.

    Bankole said the poor masses were fighting themselves while the rich people were not feeling the pains.

    One of the protesters, Ismail Sanni, said the protesters decided to express their grievances because of non acceptance of the old N500 and N1,000 notes.

    Sanni said the current cash crunch, inability to withdraw from the ATMs and rejection of the old notes had inflicted serious pains on the masses.

    He said the inability of the masses to withdraw their money from the banks was frustrating the lives of the average Nigerians.

    President Mohammadu Buhari, on Thursday, said the old N200 should be used with the new notes till April 10, while the old N500 and N1,000 notes ceased to be legal tender in the country.

  • Scores injured as Protesters riot in Abeokuta

    Scores injured as Protesters riot in Abeokuta

    Abeokuta the Ogun state capital was on Tuesday afternoon thrown into pandemonium as protesters stormed the streets to protest shortage of cash and fuel Scarcity.

    An eyewitness who simply gave his name as Elijah said he was shot at, as police tried to stop the protesters from protesting.

    In a video obtained by TheNewsGuru correspondent, a young man was seen crying for help after being shot in the arm by the police.

    Moreso in the video, protesters were seen hurling stones at one Automated Teller Machine (ATM) belonging to First Bank and voices were heard at the background saying  ”this suffering is too much in the country”

    As at when filing this report the number of those injured had not been ascertained.

    More Details Later….

  • Protesters storm CBN headquarters, demand Emefiele’s resignation

    Protesters storm CBN headquarters, demand Emefiele’s resignation

    The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has called for the resignation of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, following an alleged case of terrorism financing against him.

    The Department of State Services (DSS) had recently went to court to seek an order to arrest and detain Emefiele over the allegation but a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja declined their application.

    The court noted said there was no strong evidence from the DSS to back the allegation in the application.

    But the NYCN in collaboration with 30 Civil Society Advocacy Groups for Accountability and Probity, not satisfied with the outcome of the court, protested on Friday and demanded that Emefiele must resign and be investigated.

    President of NYCN and convener of the group, Dr. Solomon Adodo, said that the protest was for an urgent national rescue.

    “We, therefore, offer the assistance of urging Emefiele to immediately tender his resignation, and if he fails to do so within 72 hours, both President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly should invoke the relevant laws to remove him,” he said.

    Adodo urged Emefiele to honour the invitation by the DSS or any other security agency and clear his name in the allegation rather than hide under non-existent statutes and laws.

    “This is a critical time for our country, Nigeria; we should, therefore, all rise to the occasion of fixing it properly and with the right narratives, variables and solutions.

    “We warned about this dangerous trend when Emefiele became partisan, openly aspiring for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), before he was forced to withdraw.

    “As a matter of fact, what the CBN needs is a total, systematic and systemic cleansing.

    “Therefore, not only should Emefiele resign or be relieved of his duties as the CBN Governor, his deputies and current directors should be investigated and all those found culpable should be sacked.

    “But importantly, we urge the DSS to be unwavering in carrying out its national security duties. No amount of blackmail or intimidation must make it backtrack from the truest and deepest professionalism that its duties require.

    “They have our support and that of other patriots. Nigeria must remain safe, no matter whose ox is gored,” Adodo said.

    He urged the Federal Government to activate international protocols under the INTERPOL and get Emefiele back to the country to answer to the allegations, as the CBN cannot be administered from abroad.

    “We owe this country eternal vigilance in the war against corruption and terrorism. Let us avoid every loud and noisy single narrative. Let only the truth prevail,” Adodo said.