Victoria Ojeme As part of efforts to enhance the capacity of Nigerian security establishment to tackle the menace of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, 20 officials have been selected to undergo specialised training abroad. The officials include eight from the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), eight from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and four officials from […]
Victoria Ojeme The Nigeria Immigration Service, has embarked on total closure of the nation’s borders in Borno and Yobe States with the support of other Security Agencies. Considering the security imperatives of the announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan declaring state of emergency in some Local Government Areas in Borno and Yobe States , the Nigeria […]
By Chuks Okocha and Seriki Adinoyi Irked by the increasing security challenges in the country, some South-south elders and leaders yesterday rose from an emergency meeting with a warning that dire consequences and a possible break up of Nigeria were in view, following the continued killing of southerners in the north by members of Boko […]
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof. Tam David-West has cautioned the Ijaw against giving ethnic coloration to the fuel subsidy removal crisis. He told The Guardian in Port Harcourt yesterday that it was wrong for some Ijaw leaders and persons from the Niger Delta to conclude that resistance against fuel subsidy removal was aimed at frustrating and […]
Uduma Kalu Nigeria’s nation wide strikes against the government’s removal of fuel subsidies is costing Africa’s second largest economy around N100 billion (403 million pounds) a day, the central bank governor has said. Lamido Sanusi said he expected inflation to rise to around 14-15 percent by the middle of this year, up from 10.5 percent […]
As a way of addressing the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, Governor Kashim Shettima has pledged to build seven Tsangaya (Quranic) schools in various parts of the state to provide both Western and Islamic system of education to pupils in the state. Shettima made the pledge yesterday while commissioning the first phase of the […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has denied arresting business moguls, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola as well as others named as beneficiaries of Federal Government’s subsidy which was recently removed. Spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwajaren, attributed the story to the works of hackers whom, he claimed, planted the story on its website. His words: […]
Occupy Toronto protest comes first on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 2 pm. Venue is Dundas Square (Dunda/Younge), Downtown Toronto. Anthony Kola-Olusanya, convener of the protest and his co-organizers, Funmi Olumade, Dotun Olanrewaju, Shola Kola-Olusanya, are bracing up for a well-attended march even as they continue to reach out to Nigerians and friends of Nigeria […]
Okey Ndiribe & DANIEL IDONOR – January 13, 2012 ABUJA—A possible end to the ongoing nationwide strike action was in the offing last night after the Federal Government agreed to temporarily revert to the pre-New Year price of N65 per litre of petrol. At a marathon meeting attended by President Goodluck Jonathan, organised labour, the […]
Talks to resolve the ongoing fuel subsidy crisis ended in a deadlock on Thursday as the organised Labour insisted that the government should return the pump price of petrol to N65 per litre. The talks between a government team of ministers and governors, and officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and representatives […]
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