FeaturedNews BREAKING: Bobrisky released from prison BarandbenchAugust 5, 2024August 5, 20240 Nigeria’s controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has regained freedom from the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, after spending six… Read More
CrimeFeatured BREAKING: DSS arrests #EndBadGovernance protest leader in Abuja BarandbenchAugust 5, 2024August 5, 20240 Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested one of the leaders of the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests in… Read More
News Lagos: As protest ends, govt opens new engagement channels BarandbenchAugust 5, 2024August 5, 20240 The Lagos State government has expressed appreciation to the protesters in Lagos for their peaceful conduct and their announcement of… Read More
Commentary NNPC Ltd: An all-round asset to Nigeria, By Olufemi Soneye BarandbenchAugust 5, 2024August 5, 20240 In its editorial of 2nd August, 2024, the BusinessDay newspaper, characteristically, launched another scurrilous and baseless attack on the Nigerian… Read More
News BREAKING: Soyinka speaks on Tinubu’s hunger protest speech BarandbenchAugust 4, 2024August 4, 20240 Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has criticized President Bola Tinubu over his silence on the “tragic” manner security agencies managed… Read More
Commentary We condemn the repression of the peaceful protests of Nigerian youth, by Femi Falana, SAN BarandbenchAugust 4, 2024August 4, 20240 Recently, Nigerian youths announced their wish to protest against bad governance in the country from August 1-10, 2024. Various organisations… Read More
FeaturedPolitics Hunger Protest: I am ready for dialogue—Tinubu BarandbenchAugust 4, 2024August 4, 20240 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday told #Endbadgovernance protesters that he is ready for dialogue. Tinubu made the overtures during… Read More
Interview Tinubu to Protesters: I have heard you loud and clear BarandbenchAugust 4, 2024August 4, 20240 Being President Bola Tinubu’s speech to Nigerians on “End Bad Governance” protest, delivered on Sunday, August 4, 2024. My fellow… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchAugust 3, 2024August 3, 20240 115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the… Read More
FeaturedPolitics Hunger Protests: Tinubu to address the nation BarandbenchAugust 3, 2024August 3, 20240 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to address the nation over the ongoing nationwide protests dubbed #EndBadGovernance in a broadcast…. Read More