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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…
‘Involve Professionals In Civil Service Transformation’
The Chief Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dr. Rasaq Balogun, has called on the Office of Transformation…
Police Foil Robbery, Arrest 5 Suspects
Police in Okokomaiko Police Station, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have foiled a robbery attempt by a three-man robbery gang. P.M.NEWS…
Police Brutalise 36-Yr Old Woman
A 36-year-old woman from Delta State, resident in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, is asking the Lagos police Command to fish out…
Two Remanded Over N3m Visa Fraud
Two suspected visa racketeers Omolabi Akeem, 30, and Jubril Azeez, 24, who allegedly specialises in fleecing unsuspecting members of the…
Fuel Subsidy: I am In Support Of The People
Senator Babafemi Ojudu representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District at the Senate, in this interview with Ayodele Lawal and Simon Ateba,…
Olympic Handball: Why Nigeria Withdrew From Olympic Qualifiers — Yusuf
President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria, Dauda Yusuf, has explained the reason Nigeria pulled out of the 20th African…
Ndanusa Makes Case For Sports Academies
President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, has urged the National Sports Commission, NSC, and other sports…
On The Nationwide Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal —Odunayo Joseph
There is no doubt that the ongoing gridlock over the removal of fuel subsidy can be traced to four factors…
Time To End Subsidy On Inefficiency —Chido Onumah
President Jonathan’s decision to increase the price of petrol on January 1, 2012, will go down in history as one…
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…
REMOVAL OF OIL SUBSIDY: PRESIDENT JONATHAN BREAKS SOCIAL CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE.
By Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu As Nigerians gathered with family and friends to celebrate the New Year, the federal government…
Tinubu: Jonathan Has betrayed the people
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) national leader and former governor of Lagos State, has accused the Jonathan…