The vicissitudes of 2012(3)
Inadequate supply of power is the most critical factor crippling our drive towards economic development. It is asphyxiating the real or manufacturing sector of the economy, as many companies - small, medium, and large - have either closed down completely or moved their factories to countries with more reliable electricity, such as South Africa and Ghana.
Gunmen kill two in attack on pub
Gunmen have attacked a pub in Yola, killing two people amid a wave of such violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram, residents and police said Saturday.
Bayelsa: Exclusion of PDP guber candidate an error – Barage
Acting National Chairman of the ruling PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, says the exclusion of its candidate in the INEC list of candidates for the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Bayelsa, “is an error’’.
Nigeria loses N500bn to strike – Sanusi
Nigeria’s nation wide strikes against the government’s removal of fuel subsidies is costing Africa’s second largest economy around N100 billion (403 million pounds) a day, the central bank governor has said.
Suffering and smiling: How we’re coping with subsidy removal
That the removal of subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government on New Year Day has brought a lot of hardship on Nigerians hardly needs restating. What with tales of woe, especially by those who travelled for the festivities and got stranded because they could no longer pay their way back to their destinations among other problems?
Subsidy: Pressure on Tambuwal over Reps’ motion
FORMER Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, acting National Chairman of the party, Abubakar Baraje and other party leaders yesterday visited the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, asking him to drop last Sunday’s decision of the house on the petrol price increase.
