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After her car slammed into the Otedola Bridge in Lagos State on Monday morning, a woman suffered serious injuries. &nbsp,

A red salon car’s driver, identified as IKJ 126BH, allegedly lost control, causing the car to hit another car before veering off the bridge and colliding with it.

At 9:20 a.m., security personnel and emergency personnel were working to track down the driver and the circumstances that caused the collision.

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In Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), tear gas was used to disperse protesters.

On Monday morning, the protesters gathered in the Maitama neighborhood of the nation’s capital to voice their grievances, and many of them fled for safety as tear gas canisters were dispersed.

The protest, which is a part of a nationwide demonstration spearheaded by the Take-It-Back Movement and other civil society organizations, got underway earlier in the day to draw attention to a number of pressing national issues.

The organizers’ main concerns, in their opinion, are the country’s worsening economic hardship, the alleged misuse of the Cybercrime Act, and President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of emergency on Rivers State.

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As they marched through the streets of the Federal Capital Territory, the demonstrators carried placards with the words “Stop the Repression” and “Let Us Breathe.”

Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and former presidential candidate, also showed her support for the movement at the demonstration site.

At the Rivers State Police Command’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, the capital of the Rivers State, teargas was fired at protesters on Monday morning.

When the protesters gathered at the protest site as early as 9am, heavy police officers greeted them.

The young demonstrators told the policemen, who had warned them not to hold the protest, that no one could tell them where to gather.

Some of the protesters were chased away by police, including journalists who were reporting the incident.

In a letter dated April 3, 2025, the protesters had previously informed the police command that they intended to stage the demonstration.

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One of the protesters claimed to be expressing their concerns to the government during the “peaceful protest.” He had stated, “We are not here for violence.”

The demonstrator cited the governor’s suspension and the repeal of the Cybercrime Act as some of their grievances.

“As it stands, we don’t have any government,” she said. Our people don’t associate with this unconstitutional, alien government in Rivers State. We are here to demand that our governor resign and take appropriate leadership. The governor is not the sole administrator, but we do so under a social contract. He claimed that this was democracy.

Similar demonstrations have already taken place in Lagos, Oyo, and other Federation states, with demonstrators calling for good governance.

On Sunday, police called on the organizers of the nationwide protest to put the plan on hold, citing a number of national issues.

Given that the protest was scheduled to coincide with the National Police Day celebration, Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi had criticised the timing of the demonstration.

The justification for holding a nationwide protest on the same day is, however, dubable and thought to be a deliberate attempt and unpatriotic act capable of defaming and demonizing the image of the Nigeria Police and the entire country.

Peter Obi, the party’s interim national coordinator, Yunusa Tanko, joined the organization on Monday until further developments.

The former governor of Anambra State has not formally joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), according to Tanko, a campaigner for the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate for 2023.

His Excellency, Peter Obi, is a Labour Party member, as far as I am aware. On Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, Tanko said, “It will stay that way until there is any other thing that might arise.”

Adewole Adebayo, the party’s 2023 flag bearer, claimed Obi and former vice president Atiku Abubakar had started discussions to join SDP, and the LP chieftain responded.

Olu Agunloye also claimed Obi’s supporters were lobbying his party ahead of the upcoming election, according to Olu Agunloye, SDP’s national secretary.

In line with the Supreme Court’s decision to fire Julius Abure as LP national chairman, Tanko added that the Labour Party leaders would make some statements clear to Nigerians in the upcoming days.

According to him, “As I speak to you right now, there will be a meeting by the party leaders to make fundamental points clear to everyone, and in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision, which will of course put the entire situation to rest,” he said.

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Talks about an inter-party alliance reached their height on Thursday, March 20, 2025, when opposition arrowhead Atiku, Obi, and former governor of Kaduna, announced a coalition to ouster All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu, whose administration has been accused of managing the economy with unprecedented inflation and unprecedented living costs.

The coalition relies on Atiku and Obi’s recent polls to prove their party’s numerical viability. With combined votes of over 12 million, Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Obi of the Labour Party (LOC) came in second and third, respectively, more than four million more than Tinubu’s total votes, who was chosen by INEC to be the winner.