By Bose Adelaja
“I was busy washing my clothes in front of the house while my husband was taking his siesta in one of the rooms. We could not go out because of the nationwide strike/protest called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union congress, TUC and civil society groups.
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A significant improvement was recorded in transactions last week, on the secondary segment of the capital market, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, defied the ongoing protest over the removal of subsidy on fuel prices.
The Christmas and New Year are periods of dining and winning in many homes all over the world. While some Nigerians visited relaxation and tourist centres and fast food joints, others spent a lot of money on shopping for the season…
For how long will this hardship continue? This is certainly not what we bargained for when we defied that April deluge and came out en masse to cast our vote for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the last presidential election with the belief that he has the magic wand to transform our ailing economy.
THE people of Ezza-Ezillo communities in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State woke on Saturday, December 31, 2011 without the slightest premonition that death was lurking at different locations in the area.
ALmost every community in the traditional African society is identified by a unique feature which makes it different from others. Such unique features include the type of music, dance, cultural festival, sports and sacred rituals.
AN ongoing short-term skill acquisition programmes organised by the Lagos State government through the Ministry of Women and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA empowerment programme, has become the toast of not only the youths but septuagenarians and widows who are yearning to engage in innovative ventures such as manufacturing new and existing products in the country.
As the new law prohibiting motorcyclists popularly called Okada from plying major roads in Lagos State took off yesterday, both the operators and those who patronise them are already counting their losses. The government had given Saturday, December 31, 2011 as the deadline for Okada operators to take their bikes off the highways.
IT’S ten years since the late civilian governor of Ondo State, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, inaugurated the intervention agency – Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, OSOPADEC – to alleviate poverty in the oil-rich communities of the state. From all indications, the agency has brought succour to the hitherto neglected communities.
Ogale is an oil-rich community in Eleme, the Local Government Area of Rivers State where oil was first discovered in the country. Ogale people are mainly farmers but oil spillage due to pipeline vandalism, especially the one that occurred in 2009, and the attendant water pollution, has robbed them of their source of livelihood.
