Subsidy Removal - Youths Besiege Govt House, Emir's Palace, Streets in Kebbi
Leadership (Abuja)-Youths in Kebbi State, under the umbrella of Network of Civil Society, have staged a peaceful protest and demonstration against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government....
View ArticleProtesters Vow to Continue Protest
This Day (Lagos)-Hundreds of youths Wednesday in Kano converged at the ever busy Zaria road by the famous Silver Jubilee roundabout and barricaded the place thereby causing serious traffic hold ups in...
View ArticleEgypt: Al Nor Political Party Uses Mosques for Electoral Campaigning in Dakhlia
EOHR (Cairo)-On January 3, 2012, voting continued in the last parliamentary election phase in Menia, Kalyoubia, Gharbia, Dakhlia, New Valley, Matrouh, Kena, North and South Sinai. The observers of the...
View ArticleLabour Declares Total Strike Monday
Vanguard (Lagos)-UNLESS the Federal Government reverts fuel price to N65 per litre, Nigeria's economy would be shut down as from Monday, January 9, the Organised Labour has threatened.
View ArticleFuel Hike Protests Spread Across States
Vanguard (Lagos)-Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has ordered a probe into the killing of a protester by security agents during Tuesday's anti- subsidy protests in the state.
View ArticleFuel Subsidy Removal - Labour Strategises for Mass Action
This Day (Lagos)-The Federal Government took Nigerians by surprise on New Year Day when it publicly announced the formal withdrawal of fuel subsidy with effect from January 1, 2012. Linda Eroke, writes...
View ArticleStockpile Foodstuffs, NLC Tells Citizens
Leadership (Abuja)-Tension heightened in the country yesterday, as the organised labour advised Nigerians to stockpile food stuff and other essential basic needs ahead of its planned nationwide strike...
View ArticleNigeria: Osun People Have Been Vindicated
This Day (Lagos)-Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has declared that the people of his state who did not vote for President Gooluck Jonathan in the last year's presidential poll have been vindicated.
View ArticleNigeria: Enugu Islamic Community Condemns Bombings
Vanguard (Lagos)-The Islamic community in Enugu State has condemned the spate of bombings and killings of innocent people in various parts of the country, describing the incidents as uncivilized and...
View ArticleNot Everyone Pleased With New Vitamin A-Fortified Cassava
IPS (Johannesburg)-Using hybridisation and selective breeding, researchers in Nigeria have developed three new yellow varieties of cassava, a staple crop in much of Africa, which they say will help...
View ArticleNigeria: Avoid Breach of Peace, Sultan Tells Islamic Preachers
Daily Trust (Abuja)-Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III has called on Islamic preachers to avoid anything that...
View ArticleNigeria: Soldiers Interrogate Travelling Islamic Preachers
Daily Trust (Abuja)-An Army patrol van yesterday morning intercepted a bus with Islamic inscriptions that was carrying preachers along the northern outer express way in Abuja.
View ArticleSubsidy - Why We Support Indefinite Strike - Labour Allies
Vanguard (Lagos)-JANUARY 1, 2012 removal of subsidy on Petrol and subsequent hike in the pump price of the product, came unexpectedly and on a day when Nigerian workers like most of their counterpart...
View ArticleNigeria: Ultimatum is Dismiss by Leaders to Northern-Muslims
The Moment (London)-Leaders of Ohaneze Ndigbo have said Igbo should disregard the directive of the Igbo Revolutionary Movement and only listen to directives from the umbrella socio-cultural group.
View ArticleSudan: Vice President of the Republic Commends Efforts of the Islamic DA'awa...
SNA (Khartoum)-Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Al-Haj Adam Yousif, has lauded the efforts of the Islamic Da'awa Organization in the fields of education and Da'wa.
View ArticleUnofficial Results in Gharbiya Show FJP and Al-Nour in the Lead Followed By...
Aswat Masriya (London)-Unofficial results of elections in Gharbiya governorate show the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party and the Salafist al-Nour party in the lead followed by al-Wafd...
View ArticleChinese Experts On the Way
New Era (Windhoek)-A team of Chinese experts is expected in the country early next month to inspect Namibia's abattoirs and fish processing plants, before the implementation of the export agreement for...
View ArticleTownship Asks for Police Station
New Era (Windhoek)-Outjo Constituency Councillor, Abraham Job, says the absence of a police station in the former black township of Etoshapoort is a matter of great concern with the ever-escalating...
View ArticleChina Defends Local Interests
New Era (Windhoek)-Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi yesterday strongly defended his country's investment in Namibia amidst accusations that Chinese firms are among the worst violators of...
View ArticleKaaronda Under Fire
New Era (Windhoek)-The Prosecutor-General, Martha Imalwa, has accused National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) Secretary-General, Evilastus Kaaronda of "politicising" the N$660 million allegedly lost...
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