Year: 2012
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…