One of the reasons that security is not usually discussed on the newspapers pages is to ensure that security is not something you expose to everybody.
ASUU strike is like a cycle in the country. There is hardly any year since 1996 that lecturers had not gone on strike. Sometimes, they tag it warning , indefinite, etc strike.
Nigeria has its share of billionaires; men who amassed their wealth through hardwork, resilience and uncommon vision. Many of them came off the street and took to the sea, weathering every bad storm life has willed their ways to reach the shores of Eldorado.
Contrary to insinuation and heavy criticism that President Jonathan has no grip on the incessant violence carried out by the Boko Haram sect, the sacking of Mr Hafiz Abubakar Ringim as the Inspector General of Police alongside other DIGs has sent some jitters up the spines of people just as the new helmsman on the job, IG Muhammed Dikko Abubakar has vowed to fight all kinds of crime to a stand still.
Peace has taken flight from Gombe, forcing people, especially Christians from the southern part of the country, to leave the town. Those who have the guts to stay behind are in perpetual fear. Some who travelled for Xmas and New Year holidays are refusing to come back. Shops owned by most of the southerners have remained under lock and keys.
•Victims of the blast recount their tales of woe since 2002
By Olalekan Bilesanmi
Onyeka Uchime, 38, freight forwarding.
I had no off-springs and I was not married before the incident.
But I lost my immediate younger sister to the blast. Her name is Osioma; she was 24 years old at the time. After her [...]
*The story of abandoned families
*FG’s empty promises
By Jide Ajani
DISCUSS: When a government breaks agreements reached with the living, why should the dead be worried that promises have not been kept by the same government?
The story begins on a sad, very sad note.
WHERE WERE YOU
Imagine a three-month old baby [...]
By Lekan Bilesanmi
A summary of the demands of the victims as presented by their lawyer, Femi Falana
We act as solicitors to the families of the victims of 27th January, 2002 Ikeja bomb blast (hereinafter referred to as “Our Clients”), on whose behalf and instructions we write.
Our clients’ instructions are briefly stated as [...]
By Lekan Bilesanmi
In this interview with Femi Falana, he laments the neglect being suffered by the victims of the blast.
Where were you on the day it happened?
I was just lucky because I travelled out of Lagos. Usually I’m almost always in my office on Sunday in the afternoon so as to prepare [...]
THE nationwide strike and street protests called off by Organised Labour and its civil society allies, under the banner of Labour and Civil Society Coalition, LASCO, have come and gone, but echoes of the industrial action may remain with Nigeria for a long time to come.
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Convener, Save Nigeria Group, SNG, organisers of the protest against the removal of petrol subsidy at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos which lasted five days in this interview with Saturday Vangurad, bares his mind on some issues that hindered the continuation of the protest, his views about Nigeria Labour Congress/TUC negotiation, and his plans to sustain the struggle despite the deployment of soldiers that aborted the protest last Monday.
A day to the commencement of the recent nationwide strike, the House of Representatives met in an extraordinary session on Sunday, January 8, 2012 during which it among others adopted a resolution calling on the executive to rescind the hike in the price of petrol and go back to the N65 per litre pump price that obtained prior to the New Year.
A Human Rights lawyer, Mr. Richard Akinnola, the civil rights activist was one of those that protested against the subsidy removal in Lagos. For him, there may have been other reasons behind the suspension of the strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, after meeting with the Federal Government.
Ambassador Karo Ekewenu is the UN Ambassador on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) meant to drive various economics in this millennium. The ambassador speaks with Gab Ejuwa at a forum where he sheds light on the fuel subsidy
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