Nigeria, June 11 -- The Lagos chapter of the #EndBadGovernance Movement has declared that its planned protest for Democracy Day on Thursday will go ahead as scheduled, despite the alleged plan by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to frustrate it through evasive tactics.

In a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, the group reaffirmed its commitment to mobilising thousands of Nigerians to protest what it described as "the absence of genuine democracy in Nigeria and the hunger, hardship and gross inequality" under President Bola Tinubu's two-year-old administration.

The statement said the protest, scheduled to take off from Ikeja Underbridge at 7:30 a.m., will be peaceful and is aimed at highlighting worsening economic hards...