Dialogue still open on subsidy, says Labour Minister
Minister of Labour, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, has assured the nation’s labour movement that the option of dialogue was still open, despite the Federal Government’s removal of fuel subsidy which was announced on New Year day.
Yes to fuel subsidy withdrawal (1)
ON October, 4, 2011, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan sent the 2012-2015 medium-term Fiscal Framework (MTFF) and the 2012 Fiscal Strategy paper (FSP) to the Nigerian senate and intimated his plans to begin withdrawal of fuel subsidy with effect from the 2012 fiscal year-January 2012.
No one has monopoly of violence -Igbo
Igbo groups rose from a meeting in Enugu, yesterday, and declared that no group or organisation in the country had monopoly of violence.
Rats, hated pests now life savers
YOU see them everywhere! In homes,offices, market places, places of worship, on the streets, in the gutters, dumpsites, just name it, they are there live! They come in all shapes, sizes and colours. There are the locals and the expatriate variety popularly called Belgium rats which by the way, came into Nigeria ‘legitimately’ with all the travel documents complete, courtesy of the importers’ containers.
FG, Global Biofuels sign N414bn industrial biomass plants deal
Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Global Biofuels Limited, an indigenous bio-fuel producer, for the construction of 15 integrated bio-fuel plants in Nigeria estimated to gulp N414 billion.
Damaging Half Measures
PEOPLE anxious to praise President Goodluck Jonathan’s steps in tackling the recalcitrant security situations round the country have rated a mere increase in security operations in 15 local government areas to state of emergency. Nothing can be further from the truth.
