Subsidy Protests: Jonathan Government softens

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Subsidy Protests: Jonathan Government softens

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Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja There are signs that the embattled Jonathan government, faced with three-days of a paralysing general strike, is softening…

Occupy Nigeria Rally: Day 3, Strike Continues As FG Holds Talks With Labour

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Nigerians took to the streets in their thousands today nationwide as the rally organised by Occupy Nigeria entered its third…

ACN To Jonathan: Listen To The People’s Voice

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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to listen to the voice of the people,…

Boko Haram: Army Acquires Bomb Detectors

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The Nigeria Army on Tuesday stated that it has acquired modern explosive detectors and other Hi- Tech equipment in an…

Occupy Nigeria Rally: Day 2, No Retreat, NO Surrender

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The Occupy Nigeria rally entered day two today nationwide with thousands of demonstrators including two deputy president of the Nigeria…

Boko Haram Kills 12 Members Of Apostolic Church

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Twelve worshippers at the Christ Apostolic Church in Yola, Adamawa State were killed last night when gunmen, suspected to be…

Sagay, Adeyemi, ANA Back Labour

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Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, elder statesman, Pa Ayo Opadokun and others say the ongoing strike must be sustained until…

Senate Sits Over Subsidy Removal

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The Senate this afternoon rose from an emergency meeting with a resolution that its leadership should continue with the ongoing…

In Pictures: Day 2 Nationwide Protests Over Fuel Subsidy Removal

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Labour has right to protest, says Oshiomhole

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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria, has expressed solidarity with the labour unions and the civil society groups…

In Pictures: Subsidy Removal Protest in Nigerian Cities

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Abuja residents trooped out enmase this morning to join forces with the NLC and TUC in their protests against the…

Soyinka, Achebe, Clark: Boko Haram Threatens Nigeria’s Existence

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Nigeria’s literary giants and gadflies of half a century, Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, Chinua Achebe, the renowned author of…

Subsidy Insight:How Okonjo-Iweala Misled Jonathan with Figures

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Okonjo Iweala’s Anti-subsidy movie Bayo Onanuga On the eve of Nigeria’s general strike to protest the removal of petrol subsidy…

Wole Soyinka: Back To The Trenches, Predictably!

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Rarely has government alienation from the people it is meant to serve been so pronounced as demonstrated in the…

Attacks In North East Dangerous For Nigeria’s Unity —Atiku

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned in the strongest terms the latest round of ethnic and religious terrorist attacks…

Analysis: President Jonathan Cuts a Pathetic Figure

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Bayo Onanuga President Jonathan’s handlers did him a disservice Saturday night when he delivered another address to Nigerians on his…

Labour Derides Jonathan’s Broadcast

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Organised labour has responded to President Goodluck Jonathan’s nationwide broadcast Saturday, describing it as a mere rhetoric. Labour said…

ACN Govs Declare Position On Subsidy

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The governors elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) met on Saturday, 7 January, 2012 at…

Subsidy protest: Jonathan makes concessions in National broadcast

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The Full Text of the broadcast by President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan to Nigerians on Saturday 7 January Dear Compatriots, 1.…

In Pictures: Youths , Hon. Dino Melaye Protest Against Fuel Subsidy Removal

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Pictures shows youths and Hon. Dino Melaye protesting on the fuel subsidy removal at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja Friday. Photos:…

Deregulation Is A Necessary Change, Jonathan Insists

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Despite the wave of protests against it across the country, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan insisted on Friday that deregulation of…

Boko Haram Kills 6 Deeper Life Worshippers As Ultimatum Expires

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As a three-day ultimatum by the Boko Haram sect to Southerners and Christians living in northern Nigeria expired yesterday, gunmen…

Subsidy protests: Nigerian lawyers back labour unions

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The Nigerian Bar Association on Thursday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to reverse the withdrawal of subsidies from…

Protesters Shut Down Benin, Abeokuta

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Protesters in their thousands this morning took to the streets of Benin City, Edo State capital, Southsouth Nigeria to express…

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