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Lagos Schools Fail To Open

Schools in Lagos State failed to re-open on Monday, after the first term holiday as workers and civil society groups…

Hospitals Run Skeletal Services

Doctors and nurses at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Monday attended to patients, including emergency cases brought…

Mixed Reactions Greet Fuel Strike

Mixed reactions greeted the call by labour on Nigerians to begin an indefinite strike on Monday against the withdrawal of…

Protesters Ground Activities In Lagos

As the work-to-rule declared by organised labour began today across the nation, commercial activities in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, were…

ACN Taunts PDP-Led FG Over Successful Labour Strike

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said that the massive turn-out of protesting Nigerians against the removal of fuel…

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…

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…