Friday January 06, 2012 • Iweala Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Minister for Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has debunked online reports of threatening to resign her appointment if the Jonathan-led administration bows to public pressure and rescinds its decision on removal of fuel subsidy. She said the reports, which tried […]
PROTESTS against the removal of petrol subsidy continued on Thursday, as they spread to various states in the country, including Edo, Zamfara, Bauchi, Kaduna, Ekiti and Ondo. Since the announcement of the removal of subsidy on fuel on Sunday, there have been protests by organised labour, human rights activists and others condemning the removal. The […]
MEMBERS of the Boko Haram sect, on Wednesday evening, killed two members of a family; an 80-year-old man, Usman Durkwa and his 40-year-old son, Musa Durkwa, a staff member of Himma Secondary School in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. This is just as members of the Operation Restore Order of the Joint Task Force […]
Indications have emerged that security reports indicted the Emir of Suleja, Alhaji Awal Ibrahim in whose domain the Boko Haram sect had detonated bomb five times last year alone. As a prelude, the Niger State Government has issued the Emir a query, asking him to defend his non-challant attitude to the issues of bomb blast […]
President Goodluck Jonathan By Our reporters As protests and demonstrations broke out in many states yesterday over the deregulation of the pricing of petrol – leading to the death of a protester in Ilorin, Kwara State – President Goodluck Jonathan has called an emergency session of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The agenda for today’s […]
Protests against the removal of fuel subsidy grounded parts of Lagos, Ibadan, Ilorin and Gombe on Tuesday. Thousands of people marched through the streets chanting songs in condemnation of the removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan. One person was feared killed in a similar protest in Ilorin while the police reportedly arrested […]
Prices of foodstuffs and other essential commodities have risen in most markets across the country following the recent announcement of fuel subsidy removal. At noon yesterday in Lagos, many consumers were seen complaining of the increase in food prices which prevented them from buying what they wanted to buy. While some traders attributed the price […]
From Lagos to Abuja, Benue to Kano, Bauchi to Kwara, Oyo to Kogi – the story is the same: A groundswell of mounting protests, like a bushfire, has continued to ravage the country, a fallout of Federal Government’s subsidy removal. The protests, interestingly, took a new turn in Lagos, as protesters from an unlikely quarter […]
United States President, Mr. Barrack Obama has been warned over the involvement of the United States of America (USA) in Boko Haram’s matter. Professor Jean Herskovits, a professor of History at the State University of New York who gave the warning in New York yesterday also warned the United States not to allow itself to […]
By Rotimi Ajayi The National Security Adviser, NSA, General Owoye Andrew Azazi and the Nigerian Police have dismissed the purported ultimatum as a rumour, adding that Nigerians were free to live wherever they wished in the country as the police would protect them. “I can assure you the security forces are up to it,” Azazi […]
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