The #EndBadGovernance protest on Thursday paralysed official and business activities in Nigeria with government offices and markets closed for business.
The protest began early today across the country in spite of the efforts of the Nigerian Government to persuade the youths to abort the 10-day planned protests.
Some of the protesters who came out in their numbers in Lagos, Abuja and some state capitals with their placards articulating their demands from the Nigerian Government, which include the worsening hardship, especially high food prices caused by the anti-people policies of the government like the removal of fuel subsidies and the floating of the naira.
In Lagos, the large crowd of protesters gathered at Ikeja and marched to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park at Ojota and the Peace Park in Ketu to continue their protests.
According to local media reports, the protest in Abuja has been peaceful except for the shooting of teargas on the protesters at the Eagles Square and one case of injured protester.
The protest in Kaduna and Kano in northern Nigeria was not peaceful. In Kaduna protest turned violent as the Police claimed that the protest had been infiltrated by some people with criminal intensions and that a policeman was injured. And in Kano, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani, said that a technology hub in Kano, had been looted.
According to the minister, the Digital Innovation Park, designed to support Nigeria’s technical talent accelerator programme (3MTT), was reportedly set ablaze and looted during the protests.
“Sad to learn that our Digital Innovation Park in Kano slated for launch next week to support our technical talent accelerator (3MTT) has been set ablaze and looted by protesters,” Tijani stated in a post via X on Thursday.
The incident occurred as part of wider unrest in Kano, where protesters targeted the yet-to-be-commissioned Nigeria Communication Commission Industrial Park.
Tijani highlighted the immediate impact of this destruction on planned initiatives.
“Alongside #3MTT, this building is set to host our buildathon holiday maker programme for secondary school kids starting next week,” local media reports quoted the minister as saying.
In Enugu in southeastern Nigeria, the residents stayed in their homes as if they are observing the sit at home order in the state.
In Port Harcourt in southeastern Nigeria, the protest has been peaceful and the state governor, who addressed the protesters, commended them for their peaceful conduct.
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Nigeria: #EndBadGovernance protest paralyses official, economic activities
