Tag: fuel subsidy
Fuel Subsidy Removal: NBA Tasks Fashola To Roll Out Palliative Measures
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikeja branch has asked the Lagos State Government to roll out palliative measures for residents…
Govt’ll Cut More Overheads —Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has declared that the government will further cut overhead cost in the administration of…
Bakare Berates Jonathan Over Mass Transit
The convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare has accussed President Goodluck Jonathan of usurping the functions…
Jang Advises Residents Against External Influence
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau has advised the people to resist any external influence aimed at disrupting peace in the…
Protests: Nigerians Hope Jonathan Got Their Message
The fuel subsidy protests across the country and beyond are over. But Nigerians have spoken in clear language: The status…
Reps Begin Probe Of Subsidy Management
The ongoing probe of the management of fuel subsidy by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee continued this morning with…
Facts You Must Know: Subsidy Made Simple (SMS) —Tunde Bakare
Pastor ‘Tunde Bakare delivered this expose on Fuel Subsidy at The Latter Rain Assembly last Sunday. Please read, digest, and…
NANS Failed Students —DSRIC
The Defence for Students Rights Initiative Concern (DSRIC), a students’ group has berated the leadership of the National Association of…
Listen To The People’s Cry, Actors Urge Jonathan
As the heat and controversy generated by the removal of fuel subsidy lingers, Nigerian actors have advised President Goodluck Jonathan…
Aregbeshola Warns Military Against Take-Over
As mass protest over the removal of fuel subsidy continues across the country, the Governor of Osun State, southwest Nigeria,…
ACN Decries Sectionalisation Of Fuel Subsidy Issue, Warns Jonathan, PDP
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it is mortally concerned that, with what may be the tacit support…
Jonathan Deceived Nollywood With $200m —Chukwurah
Popular Nollywood actress, Clarion Chukwurah, has berated President Goodluck Jonathan over his purported donation of $200 million to the entertainment…
LUTH, EKO Hospitals Render Skeletal Services
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Eko Hospital, Lagos, have been rendering skeletal services since the nationwide strike over…
Traditional Ruler Begs Labour To End Strike
The traditional ruler of Igando, Oba Lasis Gbadomosi, has appealed to the NLC and TUC to suspend the ongoing national…
Abdulkareem Attacks D’banj
A few weeks after he was criticised for pummelling Jaywon, his colleague under the Kennis Music label, rap music star,…
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…
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…
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…
ACN Condemns Arrest Of Its Former Scribe, Calls For His Release
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has strongly condemned Tuesday’s arrest of its former National Secretary, Dr. Usman Bugaje, by…
24-Hour Curfew Imposed In Kaduna
To prevent hoodlums from hijacking the fuel subsidy protest and breakdown of law and order, the Kaduna State government has…
FUEL SUSBIDY PROTEST: Fashola Cautions Security Agencies
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday received another set of prominent Nigerians protesting removal of fuel subsidy at…
Sagay, Adeyemi, ANA Back Labour
Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, elder statesman, Pa Ayo Opadokun and others say the ongoing strike must be sustained until…
Okonjo-Iweala Blames Govs For Subsidy Removal
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has denied being the mastermind of the oil subsidy removal that has…
Women Rally In Support Of fuel Subsidy Removal
Some women groups marched through Abuja on Monday to demonstrate support for the fuel subsidy withdrawal by the Federal Government.…
Fuel Subsidy Strike: Rivers Police Deploy 10,000 Men
The Rivers Police Command has deployed 10,000 policemen to prevent a breakdown of law and order as residents of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ACN Tasks Jonathan Over Speech
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said President Goodluck Jonathan’s televised speech defending his government’s decision to withdraw fuel subsidy…