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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

Nigeria At 51: The Journey So Far Nigeria At 51: The Journey So Far As Nigeria marks the 51st anniversary of its independence from Britain, Odinaka ANUDU takes a look at how the nation has fared in the past 51 years Nigeria’s 51-year journey since Independence from Britain is etched in political, economic, social and religious vicissitudes. After Independence in 1960, Nigeria became a Federal Republic in 1963, meaning...