Nigeria: Labour union announces two-day suspension of protests
Posted by chuks.oluigbo on Jan 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment
A top Nigerian labour leader announced Friday a two-day suspension of protests at the weekend as a national strike over fuel prices shut down the country for a fifth day running.
Nigeria Labour Congress president Abdulwahed Omar told a rally in the capitalAbujathat union leaders wanted people to take a break on Saturday and Sunday.
“In consideration of so many factors, our planners said … that we can get relaxed...
Nigeria: As 2011 Winds Up
Posted by chuks.oluigbo on Dec 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Waziri: ousted EFCC boss
As the year 2011 comes to an end, Chukwudi OHIRI critically examines how Nigeria has fared in the last 12 months, with highlights of major events of the year
It may not be completely out of place to assert that the year 2011 was a very bad year for Nigeria, perhaps the worst in the country’s post-civil war history. But for a few events that brought cheers and happiness to the...
Nigeria: In Search Of A True Nationalist
Posted by chuks.oluigbo on Dec 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Even while Nigerians shout the slogan, ‘unity in diversity’, ethnic sentiments run deep in their blood; and for Nigerian politicians, they can become nationalists at one time and tribalists at other times depending on what is politically expedient at the moment
By Stanley AZUAKOLA
Politicians live to win elections. If there was a zeroth law of politics, it would be: Anything is possible, doable and sayable...
Sokka International Holds 2011 Customers’ Forum
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Nov 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
By Chuks OLUIGBO and Odinaka ANUDU
Sokka International is an exclusive distributor of Carlton chain saws and accessories (plugs, sprocket bearing, starter rope, guide bar, chain breaker, chain joiner, Carlton files, etc), AET ignition components, garden equipment, TILLOTSON, ODII products, TIGER and all types of forestry equipment. Every year, the company, reputed to be the biggest distributor of Carlton products and...
Sylva The Pitiable And Other Creek Stories
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Nov 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Chief Sylva Timipreye
As the PDP drama in Bayelsa intensifies, with all fingers pointing at Aso Villa as the source of the script being played out, Bayelsans and Nigerians sit and ponder what the dénouement would be
By Stanley AZUAKOLA
By the time you are reading this, Timipreye Sylva, the straw-clutching Bayelsa governor, may have inched a step or two closer to political Golgotha or he may have received a desperate...
NLC Demands Demilitarization of PHCN Centres
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Nov 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Comrade AbdulWaheed Omar
Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, president, Nigeria Labour congress has raised alarm over federal government’s deployment of armed soldiers to PHCN Centres in the country and called for immediate demilitarization of the centres.
In an address delivered at the opening ceremony 2011 Harmattan School held in Kaduna, Omar expressed outrage at FG’s deployment of soldiers to occupy the corporate Headquarters...
Tribunal Axes Kebbi Gov, Orders fresh Elections
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Nov 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Alh. Saidu DAkingari
The election of Saidu Dakingari of the peoples’ Democratic Party as the governor of Kebbi State has been overturned by the state’s Election Petition Tribunal.
Delivering judgement in the suit filed by the 2011 governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Abubakar Malam, Justice Mairo Mohammed ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct fresh election in the...
Subsidy Removal Is Anti-People, Buhari Insists
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Nov 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Rather than support ‘subsidy removal’ as is being touted in government quarters, General Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Nigerian peoples’ party has described the policy as anti people.
Reacting to the statement made by the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan while speaking at the 17th Nigerian Economic Summit (NSE) in Abuja on Thursday...
How You Can Become Rich
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Oct 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
How You Can Become Rich
By Chinedu MADUKA
Every Christian and indeed everybody can become a millionaire provided they have learnt the eternal and biblical principles of success, wealth creation and the laws of money. Some people live with the mistake of thinking that millionaires are a special set of people with an exclusive knowledge of some uncommon secrets and principles of success. For from it, success belongs...
Catholic Bishops Caution FG
Posted by chinedu.maduka on Oct 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Catholic Bishops Caution FG
Catholic Bishops Caution FG
It was a mixture of condemnation and commendation for the Federal Government as the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria concluded their week-long plenary session in Abakaliki
By Okey EGBOLUCHE
Catholic Bishops of Nigeria have expressed their minds over certain ugly issues that have affected the polity within the past few months. Key among these are the lapses in the nation’s...
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