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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Boko Haram Members have Infiltrated Government – Jonathan

* Mark Challenges Security Agencies to Redouble Effort President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday in Abuja said that the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which had claimed responsibility for many (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Lack of Funds Hinders Work on Extension of Nigeria’s Continental Shelf

Paucity of funds may hinder the progress of work on Nigeria’s application to extend its continental shelf, currently before the UN, investigations revealed. Nigeria had on May 7, 2009 submitted its (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Microsoft Nigeria Trains Youths on Software Development

Microsoft Nigeria said that it had started training some youths in tertiary institutions in the country on programming so that they could be more productive and useful to the society. Mr Emmanuel Onyeje, Microsoft Country (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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NLC, TUC Threaten to Sanction Members over Fuel Subsidy Strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Cross River have threatened to sanction members who failed to join the ongoing strike to protest fuel subsidy removal. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Opposition Parties Fault Senate’s Silence on Strike and other Issues

Opposition political parties in Nigeria, under the aegis of Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria (PAN), on Monday expressed unhappiness at the senate for "sitting on the fence during the nation’s time of distress". The National Coordinator of PAN, Chief Maxi Okwu, said in Lagos that ``the Senate has not done well for the nation”. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Protesters Pelt Etsu Nupe’s Palace in Bida

- Police Avert Violence in Gombe The Etsu Nupe Bida's palace in Niger, was on Monday pelted by protesters as the labour- organised protest against withdrawal (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Situation Calm in Most States as Workers Embark on Strike

As workers heeded the nationwide strike called by the organised labour to protest the withdrawal of fuel subsidy, the situation in Lagos on Monday was relatively calm. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Subsidy Removal: Petrol Stations Shun NLC Strike in Abuja

Some petrol stations in the FCT on Monday opened for business in spite of the nationwide strike embarked upon by the organised labour against the Federal Government’s removal of fuel subsidy. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Youths Barricade Abuja-Makurdi Road as Nationwide Strike Grounds Activities

Youths in Lafia on Monday barricaded the busy Abuja-Makurdi road as workers embarked on a nationwide strike to force the government to revert the price of petrol to N65 per litre. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Athletes Locked out of Stadia as Strike Begins

Athletes were on Monday locked out of the National Stadium, and the Teslim Balogun Stadium, both in Lagos, as the nationwide strike by the labour unions to protest petrol subsidy removal began. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Mobile Policeman Defies Superior Counsel, Kills Commuter in Obogun as Protests Swell

Despite Tuesday’s assurances after the National Security Council meeting in Abuja by the Nigerian Inspector-General of Police Hafiz Ringim that government will not stop protecting lives and property, another mobile (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Nigerian Attorney-General Adoke Responds to Killings by Police Personnel

TEXT OF A PRESS RELEASE  BY THE HONOURABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE, MR. MOHAMMED BELLO ADOKE, SAN, CFR ON THE CURRENT INDUSTRIAL ACTION BY THE NIGERIAN LABOUR CONGRESS AND THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Subsidy Protest: Yoruba Youth Group Slams Falana, Bakare, KWAM1, Others

A Yoruba youth group, the Yoruba Youths Consultative Forum (YYCF) has described the involvement of people like Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Vice Presidential (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Nigerian Group, “1960 Collective”, Expresses Solidarity with Protesters

A Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People! •         We, the undersigned members of The 1960 Collective at home and abroad, hereby declare our support for the popular movement against the removal (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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AG Mohammed Bello Adoke Addresses “Criminal Acts” in the Guise of Protests

- Text of Press Release by Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, on criminal acts arising from the ongoing nationwide demonstration, Wednesday, January 11, 2012. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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“We Shall No Longer Turn the Other Cheek”, Orji Uzor Kalu Warns Boko Haram

The stormy petrel of politics in Nigeria, former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has issued strong warnings of possible retaliations if ongoing pogroms against Christians in the north continues from (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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A Protester’s Prayer

By Adedayo Ogunleye | Monday January 11, 2012 A citizen Desire to see a New Awakening in his Homeland Dear Father, Good Morning; (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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AD, PPA Back Senate on Fuel Subsidy Reversal

Politicians on Wednesday in Lagos reacted differently to the Senate’s proposal to shift subsidy removal to April 1 in a bid to end the ongoing nationwide strike. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Analysis: Moving the Port Reforms off the Ground

By Adeleye Ajayi A giant stride towards realising the objectives of port reform was taken by the Federal Government with the ejection of nine out of 14 government agencies at the seaports last year.The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, acting on the presidential directive, ordered the ejection of these agencies out of the ports to make the six-year old port reform work. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Arab Monitor Quits Syria Mission in Disgust

* UN says Syria Killings Rise after Monitors Arrive-US An Arab League observer has left Syria, saying he had witnessed ``scenes of horror’’ that he was powerless to prevent. (more…)

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