Tag: subsidy protests
Fashola Spells Rights and Duties Of Citizens
Governor Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola(SAN) on Friday received members of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ikeja Branch, who brought…
Lagos Govt: We Didn’t Ask For Soldiers
Lagos State Government has debunked the claim by Nigeria’s military authorities that the deployment of soldiers on the streets of…
Nigerian Army: Lagos Government Deployed Soldiers
The Nigerian Army has disagreed with Bello Haliru Mohammed, the Minister of Defence over whose authority the controversial deployment of…
Lawmakers, Religious Leaders Slam FG Over Soldiers In Lagos
The Lagos state House of Assembly has described the deployment of soldiers to the state by the Federal Government as…
Oshiomhole Warns Petrol Marketers
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has warned petroleum marketers in the state that the government would not hesitate to…
ACN Asks Jonathan To Remove Soldiers From Lagos
The Lagos State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to listen to the…
US Professor regrets Backing Nigeria’s subsidy removal
I regret supporting subsidy removal, says UN Adviser Some details have emerged about how the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency misled international…
News Analysis: Jonathan’s Carrots Not Enough for Labour
Bayo Onanuga President Goodluck Jonathan chose a carrot and stick game as he announced a new pump price of N97…
How NNPC Defrauds Nigerians on oil exports and subsidy
The KPMG, in a forensic analysis of the operations of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation in 2010, unveiled startling revelations…
Nigeria: PENGASSAN issues oil export shut down threat again
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja As feverish moves to end the nationwide strike and protests over the removal of fuel subsidy continues in…
Subsidy Protest: ACN Alleges Plans to Slam Emergency Rule in Lagos
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has expressed concern over the rumoured plan by the federal government to send thugs…
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…
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…
Diezani: Why Oil subsidy should Go
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke on Tuesday explained how the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal…
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…
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…
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…
Subsidy Protests: Ibadan Streets Empty
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Three days after the Federal Government removed fuel subsidy in Nigeria, the effect has been biting harder as…
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…
News Analysis: Nigeria’s President Jonathan rides on Tiger’s tail
Bayo Onanuga President Jonathan of Nigeria must have made his portraiture go back to the canvas. Portrayed often as a…