Year: 2012
LG To Launch Google TVs
Google TV, which got off to a shaky start last year, may be getting some help in 2012, as LG…
Cadbury Fetes Consumers
Cadbury Nigeria Plc has sponsored four major events that made the festive period enjoyable and memorable for consumers and shoppers. …
Jonathan Must Account For The Billions His Government Inherited
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, Civil Society Organisation and the generality of Nigerians have been on…
Time To End Subsidy On Inefficiency
President Jonathan’s decision to increase the price of petrol on January 1, 2012, will go down in history as one…
On The Nationwide Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal
There is no doubt that the ongoing gridlock over the removal of fuel subsidy can be traced to four factors…
Fuel Subsidy: I am In Support Of The People
Senator Babafemi Ojudu, representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, in this interview with Ayodele Lawal and Simon Ateba, says President Jonathan…
Pro Wrestling: WUW Set For World Tourney
World Underground Wrestling, WUW, is planning to stage series of wrestling matches across the world soon. A representative of…
Olympic Judo: Matori Sure Of More Slots For Nigeria
President of Judo Federation of Nigeria, JFN, Isa Matori, has assured Nigerians of the federation’s readiness to secure more slots…
Ex-Governor Daniel Postpones dad’s burial
Former Ogun state Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has postponed indefinitely the burial of his father, Pa Adebola Daniel, scheduled for…
Subsidy Strike: Oil union set to shut exports
The most strategic of Nigeria’s workers unions, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior staff Association of Nigeria(PENGASSAN) said its members…
Activist Defies Kaduna Curfew
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Kaduna based human rights activist , Shehu Sani defied the 24 hours curfew order by the government…
Subsidy Protests: Jonathan Government softens
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja There are signs that the embattled Jonathan government, faced with three-days of a paralysing general strike, is softening…
Strike cancels KLM Flights
The three day strike by Nigerian workers over the removal of oil subsidy has taken its toll on the Dutch…
Babangida’s Office Burnt, Police Inspector Killed
The Niger State capital, Minna in northcentral Nigeria, boiled today as protesters took to the streets and burnt down the…
Occupy Nigeria Rally: Day 3, Strike Continues As FG Holds Talks With Labour
Nigerians took to the streets in their thousands today nationwide as the rally organised by Occupy Nigeria entered its third…
Subsidy Protests: Death Toll Rises To 12
Since the nationwide protests against fuel subsidy removal started on Monday, at least 12 persons have been killed while several…
Fashola Orders AG To Prosecute Killer DPO
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye to take over…
Candle Light For Slain Demola
Tension mounted this morning as youths within Yaya Abatan and its environs blocked every road in and out of Yaya…
Police Intercept Arms
The police in Ghana have intercepted arms and ammunition about to be smuggled into Nigeria. The Greater Accra Regional Police…
We’re Ready For Angola —Home Based Eagles
The Nigerian soccer team, made up mainly of local players, have declared their readiness to show the stuff in them…
Residents Hold Rally For Slain Youth
Youths in their hundreds this morning held a peaceful protest in honour of slain Ademola Abiodun Aderinto who was shot…
Abuja Court Defends Ruling on Strike
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Rattled by the deluge of criticisms poured on it by a cross section of Nigerians following…
Traders In Onitsha, Owerri Back To Business
Traders in Onitsha have shunned the ongoing nationwide strike, pushing ahead with their business activities as the strike bites harder…
Strike: NLC Calls For Peaceful Protests
Mr. Owei Lakemfa, Acting Secretary-General of the NLC, has called on members of the union and its affilliate organisations to…
Strike: Businesses, Govt. Offices Remain Shut
Business premises and government offices on Tuesday remained shut in Gombe, as the strike over the removal of fuel subsidy…
Riot Over Slain Youth Averted
The plan by youths in Ifako Ijaiye Council of Lagos to invade the Pen Cinema Police Station in Agege, in…
Economist Predicts Post Strike Crisis At Ports
Mr. Kunle Folarin, a maritime economist, on Tuesday predicted that there would be crisis over demurrage at the ports after…
Labour To Re-strategise
Labour will take a break after a week to re-organise and re-strategise before resuming the nation-wide strike if the Federal…
Lagos Assembly Decries LGs Revenue Generation
The Public Accounts Committee (Local Governments) of the Lagos State House of Assembly has lamented the poor state of revenue…