President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said that the controversial deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry was a necessary change Nigeria must make. Nationwide protests have greeted the government’s decision that took effect from January 1 and increased the price of petrol from N65 per litre to between N141 and N200. Labour unions […]
January 7, 2012 by Friday Olokor, Abuja The National Industrial Court in Abuja on Friday stopped the planned nationwide strike by the organised labour and civil society groups against the removal of the fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. In arriving at the decision, the NIC granted an order restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress […]
By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP- Jan. 6, 2012 – Governor Obi of Anambra State and his administration deserves unequivocal applaud on transferring 1,040 schools back to the original owners. It is important to highlight such an important and affirmative move by Obi’s administration to show that we are all committed to the truth and a better […]
By Odenigbo Chidi Anyaeche, London, UK – Jan. 6. 2012 – Killing of Igbo’s in Nigeria by their fellow Nigerians of Northern Nigerian Muslim extraction seems to be a yearly ritual. But the recent killings by a radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram (Western education is meaningless) that operates mostly from North East Nigeria that […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Jan. 6, 2012 – “If figures of what we spend are published to the Nigerian people, riots will erupt all over the country” Adams Oshiomole The Federal Government is to fund a quarter of its 2012 budget proposal with external and domestic loans. A total of $1.712 billion […]
By Akintokunbo Adejumo, London, UK – Jan. 6, 2012 – I will be very frank with you; despite the raging debates over the past six months or so, I had not the slightest intention of writing on this contentious and controversial issue of fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria until the Federal Government actually did it […]
The wife of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiyat, on Friday in Osogbo, said that the spirit of her husband was behind Nigerians in the fight against the removal of fuel subsidy. The widow said that ineptitude and corruption on the part of the Federal Government was the reason behind removal of fuel subsidy. Ganiyat called […]
January 7, 2012 by Mustapha Salihu, Kano The spate of unrest that has enveloped the country since the removal of petroleum subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan has added to the challenges facing security operatives nationwide. In Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states, not only has the fear of bomb blasts and other nocturnal activities of the […]
January 7, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Indications have emerged in Abuja on why President Goodluck Jonathan hurriedly removed subsidy from petroleum products on January 1, 2012. An investigation by our correspondent showed that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and some politicians insisted that the subsidy must be removed early in his regime. […]
January 7, 2012 by Niyi Odebode, Fidelis Soriwei and Everest Amaefule, Abuja Organised labour and other interest groups have faulted the N141 per litre of petrol template being used by the Petroleum Products Regulatory Agency and the Federal Government in selling the product to Nigerians. This is even as a top official of the Nigeria […]
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