The war between the duo seems to know no end as Ireti slams Wike over allegations of sponsoring anti-government protests. Senator Ireti Kingibe (LP, FCT) has slammed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for claiming that security agencies have identified a senator as one of the sponsors of the anti-government protests. Senator Kingibe took to her X handle early on Friday to respond to the claims and warned that she will...
The Senate assured that the government has commenced executing measures to meet the demands of the protesters The Senate has appealed to organisers of the proposed #Endbadgovernance protests slated to commence tomorrow Thursday, August 1, to give President Bola Tinubu more time to allow his policies to yield desired results. This appeal was made during Wednesday’s emergency plenary sittings following an executive/closed-door session of the Senate which lasted for over an hour and 30 minutes....
President Ruto is currently juggling the most significant crisis of his two-year presidency despite withdrawing the controversial finance bill Just a day after President William Ruto did a U-turn and retracted the controversial finance bill proposing tax hikes in response to protests earlier this week, demonstrators at the Kenyan Parliament have taken up a decision to pick up where they left off today, Thursday, June 27, 2024. While some protestors announced they would not participate...
The protest against the controversial finance bill in Kenya took a new turn on Tuesday when parliament building is set ablaze, mace taken and police fired live bullets at demonstrators in Nairobi Despite protests from hundreds of Kenyans, the Kenya Parliament has finally passed the 2024 finance bill. A total of 195 MPs on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 voted in favour of the bill while 104 voted against, and 3 void votes. The finance bill...
Many protesters against the bill held signs and placards that read, “Do not force the taxes on us,” referring to the President of Kenya, William Ruto as Zakayo, the Swahili name for the biblical tax collector Zacchaeus. Hundreds of Kenyans have gathered in the country’s capital, Nairobi to protest against the Finance Bill 2024. The demonstration, which started on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, about 12:00 p.m, is intended to put pressure on the President of...
The aggrieved retired police officers asked the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government to remove them from the contributory pension scheme. Some retired police officers under the contributory pension scheme have stormed the national assembly over seceral months of unpaid pensions. The retirees who came from chapters to protest at the National Assembly on Tuesday, 21st May, 2024 decried the extreme challenges saying that the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) has failed to pay their entitlements for...
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