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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…

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…

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…

Wole Soyinka: Back To The Trenches, Predictably!

  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

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

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

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

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

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

Pictures shows youths and Hon. Dino Melaye protesting on the fuel subsidy removal at the Federal Secretariat,  Abuja Friday. Photos:…
JUST IN: Jonathan confirmed safe, out of Guinea-Bissau

Deregulation Is A Necessary Change, Jonathan Insists

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

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

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

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

Boko Haram: Fashola, Religious Leaders Meet

Hundreds of Christian and Muslim leaders have met in Lagos State to strategise on how to stop the incursion of…

Martins To Splash N400m On Charity

Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins says he is planning to spend over N400 million (over $2.5 million) to help the poor…

NLC To Shut Down Nigeria

After an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC,…

Mass Protest Continues In Ilorin

Protest over the removal of fuel subsidy continued Wednesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, as hoodlums hijacked it, setting…

Jonathan’s Loyalists Lambast IBB

The issue of fuel subsidy removal has pitched former military dictator, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, against loyalists of President…

NLC Meets Over Strike, Economic Activities Low

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and other trade unions today held a…

How Death Row Actress Rabi, Escaped From Prison

Rabi Ismaila, the Nigerian actress who was recently sentenced to death by hanging, has escaped from the Hadejia prison in…

Subsidy Removal Will Increase Poverty — Ikuforiji

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has lamented the New Year day removal of fuel subsidy…

Protests In Lagos, Ibadan Over Removal Of Subsidy

Widow of the legal icon, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiyat, lawer and activist, Mr. Femi Falana this morning, led…

Sagay, Bakare, Musa Back Labour Over Mass Action

Prominent Nigerians, Prof. Itse Sagay, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Balarabe Musa and others have called on Nigerians to join the Nigeria…

Boko Haram’s 3-Day Ultimatum: It’s A Joke, Igbo Leaders

Southerners resident in the north have described the Boko Haram three-day ultimatum ordering them to vacate the area as a…

Subsidy: protests erupt in Lagos

Hundreds of Nigerians are marching in the commercial capital, Lagos,this morning to protest the removal of fuel subsidy, which has…

Fuel Subsidy Removal: President Jonathan Needs Help – ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said the inscrutable fuel subsidy removal, at a time the country is facing its…

Gov Suswam Decries State Of Insecurity

The Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has decried the spate of persistent bomb attacks , politically motivated violence, communal…

State Of Emergency: Jonathan Still Chasing Shadows -ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it welcomes whatever reasonable measures President Goodluck Jonathan takes to put an…