A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria says it will shut down all production starting Sunday to take part in the nationwide strike over spiraling fuel prices. The strike began Monday after the Nigerian government reversed a … read more
Nigerian unions begin a second day of nationwide strikes on Tuesday to protest against the removal of fuel subsidies, as President Goodluck Jonathan and workers remain in deadlock after three people were killed in the first day of demonstrations. Nigeria’s … read more
Dubbed the “Mother-Of-All-Battles”, organised labour, yesterday, damned a court injunction and a resolution from an emergency “special session” of the House of Representatives, restraining it from embarking on mass protests. Labour, comprising both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the … read more
The Federal Government lost billions of naira at the Lagos ports yesterday, just as airlines counted their losses following the sit-at-home order given by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Civil Society groups over the increase in the pump … read more
Economic activites came to halt in most states of the federation yesterday, as a result of a strike called by Labour in protest against the Federal Government’s withdrawal of the subsidy on petrol. Offices, markets and banks were shut, as … read more
When he took over the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation in 2010, Goodluck Jonathan seemed destined to live up to his name. But that was until recently, when a steady drum-roll of bad news from Nigeria appeared to be … read more
A day after tens of thousands protested, youth gangs set up roadblocks of burning tyres along major roads in Lagos, the largest city in Africa’s most populous nation, and threw stones at vehicles as they sought to extort money from … read more
Chinua Achebe is heading a group of 38 Nigerian authors who are throwing their weight behind mass protests in the country at the government’s withdrawal of the state fuel subsidy. The internationally acclaimed, bestselling novelist Achebe was joined by Caine … read more
The Senate this afternoon rose from an emergency meeting with a resolution that its leadership should continue with the ongoing dialogue and negotiation with both the executive arm of government and labour in a bid to resolve the crisis arising … read more
THE leader of Nigeria’s Christians warned at the weekend that deadly attacks on churches and the faithful suggested “religious cleansing”, comparing the violence to the run-up to the 1960s civil war. The upsurge in violence coincides with the government stopping … read more