President Bola Tinubu will address the nation in a broadcast on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 7:00 am, Ajuri Ngelale, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity has announced.
“Television, radio, and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to plug into the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) for the broadcast,” the statement said Saturday.
The broadcast will be repeated on the network services of the NTA and the FRCN at 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm on the same day.
Nigerians across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory stormed the streets on August 1 for a protest which was billed to last for 10 days.
After Day 1 of the protest, a dusk to dawn curfew was imposed on Borno State after a bomb blast was reported in Konduga local government and at least three people were killed while seven were injured in Maiduguri, the state capital during the protest.
Things also got out of hand in Karu and other townships in Nasarawa bordering Abuja, the country’s capital, on the east. The protest also turned messy in parts of Kaduna, the seat of some of the country’s most important military institutions and Kano, the country’s northern commercial hub. There was no protest at all in most of the eastern part of the country while in the west, it was merely a march paralysing business activities.
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The protest entered Day 2 on Friday with momentum maintained in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. It lost steam significantly in other places after the cases of vandalism, injuries, arrests and deaths on the first day.
Opposition figure, Peter Obi had then called on President Tinubu to address the nation before the protest escalates.
