President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with Nigerians Saturday to support the removal of fuel subsidies and pledged to cut government salaries, in an effort to prevent a nationwide strike planned for Monday. Nigeria’s fuel regulator announced on January 1 the end … read more
Like many other Christian outposts in the spiritual homeland of Nigeria’s “Taliban”, the Victory Baptist Church in the northern desert city of Maiduguri no longer just relies on God for protection. A modest whitewashed spire in a skyline dominated by … read more
THE National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) on Sunday warned President Goodluck Jonathan that the aviation labour union may shut down the nation’s airspace if the government fails to yield to the demands of the Nigerian masses. Such … read more
Main opposition party Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Sunday expressed its support for the country’s labour unions, ahead of Monday’s start of an indefinite, nation-wide strike to protest high petrol prices occasioned by the government’s removal of state subsidy. … read more
A Nigerian court issued an order seeking to bar a national strike planned for next week as police blocked protesters on Friday in the capital over soaring fuel prices which have sparked nationwide outrage. The labour movement has threatened to … read more
A fresh shooting attack from a Muslim sect had claimed 20 lives in northeast Nigeria on Friday, a local police officer has said. The attack came as a spate of sect shooting and bombing attacks in the country’s north over … read more
On January 1 2012, Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, ended oil subsidies that had kept gasoline prices artificially low. The cost of a liter of gasoline shot up from 65 naira (40 cents) to at least 141 naira (86 cents) … read more
ENRAGED youths, numbering over 2,000, armed with battleaxes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons went on rampage, Friday, sacking and inflicting injuries on over 50 Muslims at the Hausa quarters, Sapele in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. A northern … read more
Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in defiance of the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan with at least 17 people killed in the latest attacks. In one incident at least 17 people were killed in Mubi … read more
Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai has been criticizing President Jonathan Government on twitter in the past few hours. Read below and you can follow him on twitter @elrufai for more . Those giving economic arguments for or … read more