Month: January 2012
Labour has right to protest, says Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria, has expressed solidarity with the labour unions and the civil society groups…
Killer DPO Arrested, Detained
The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Pen Cinema Police Divisional Headquarters, Segun Fabunmi, has been arrested and detained on the orders…
In Pictures: Subsidy Removal Protest in Nigerian Cities
Disables protesting fuel subsidy removal. Protests during the NLC Rally in Abuja. Youths in Gwagwalada, in Abuja blocked roads and…
Workers Strike Paralyses Nigerian cities
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and civil society groups today shut down the country following the failure of the Federal…
Jonathan’s capital turns Ghost Town
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory was virtually a ghost town this morning as most people kept away from…
Oil Subsidy Protests shut Nigerian cities
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and civil society groups today shut down the country following the failure of the Federal…
Soldiers block subsidy protesters in Abuja
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The protesters’ march to the Eagle Square was foiled this afternoon by the heavy presence of…
Police Kill 3 In Lagos, Kano
The ongoing nationwide protest against fuel subsidy removal, recorded its first casualty today in Lagos when a young man was…
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Take Over Abuja Streets
Abuja residents trooped out enmase this morning to join forces with the NLC and TUC in their protests against the…
Fashola Votes N64b For Staff Salary
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, has voted N64 billion for staff salary and allowances in this year’s budget. The government…
Muslim Cleric Appeals To Jonathan Over Fuel Subsidy
Prominent Nigerians have continued to appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his decision over removal of subsidy on petroleum…
Sanity Returns To Police Barracks
Sanity has returned to the once porous Obalende Police Barracks which had hitherto been used as a thoroughfare by commuter…
Fashola Extends Registration Period For LASU Students
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has approved the extension of the deadline for registration of both fresh and…
Gov. Reiterates Voters’ Confidence In Judiciary
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi, has reiterated that the nation’s voters still had confidence in the judiciary, due to its…
Works Minister Defends Fuel Subsidy Removal
The Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, says part of the benefits that will accrue to Nigerians from the withdrawal…
Strike: FCT Minister Hail RTEAN’s Decision To Pull Out
FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed has hailed the decision of the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) not to…
Passengers Beg For Improved Train Services
Passengers on the Ilorin-Lagos train on Sunday urged the Federal Government to accelerate the rehabilitation of rail transportation to cushion…
Labour Warned Not To Betray Nigerians
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has been urged not not betray the confidence repose in it by Nigerians in their…
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Muslim Students Back Labour
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Lagos State Unit, has advised the Federal Government to rescind its decision to…
NLC Strike: Eagles Shelve Monday Training
The industrial strike over the removal of the oil subsidy by the Nigerian government may have necessitated the cancellation of…
Olympic Taekwando: Nnaji Sure Of Tickets At Cairo Qualifiers
President of Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, NTF, Jonathan Nnaji, has said that the morale in camp is high as Nigerian taekwondoists…
Re: Abati’s Article On Fuel Subsidy
Just three years ago, Dr. Reuben Abati, now Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, was so incensed…
Public Opinion Under Attack —Isaac Asabor
In his book, Mass Communication: Theory and Practice, Ifedayo Daramola defined Public Opinion as “the consensus or aggregate views held…
Too Little, Too Late
On Saturday 7 January, President Goodluck Jonathan hastily offered some concessions to stave off the planned nationwide mass action by…
Lagos Begins Drainage Clearing Ahead Of Rains
The Lagos State Government has begun clearing drainage across the state in anticipation of heavy rains this year. The aim…
Labour hails House of Reps, strike goes on
The Labour Movement and its allies have hailed the Federal House of Representatives motion adopted at the emergency sitting of…
Achebe, Nigerian writers abroad back Nigerian people
The Full text of the Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People “We are troubled by the turn of events…
Soyinka, Achebe, Clark: Boko Haram Threatens Nigeria’s Existence
Nigeria’s literary giants and gadflies of half a century, Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, Chinua Achebe, the renowned author of…
Boko Haram Members In Government, says Jonathan
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan chillingly revealed at a church service organised to mark the Armed Forces on Sunday that…
Subsidy Insight:How Okonjo-Iweala Misled Jonathan with Figures
Okonjo Iweala’s Anti-subsidy movie Bayo Onanuga On the eve of Nigeria’s general strike to protest the removal of petrol subsidy…