Following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government and the consequent increase in the price of petrol, transport fares on major routes in Abuja have shot up astronomically as transporters literally transferred the burden of the subsidy removal to commuters.

Amidst protests in parts of Lagos State due to the removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, signed into law, the N491.941 billion 2012 budget for the state.

CATHOLIC Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has warned that Nigeria was drifting dangerously, asking that urgent steps be taken by the Federal Government to address the current insecurity in the country. He called for what he described as the ‘’revolution of the mind and spirit.”

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has announced that his administration has taken delivery of 100 buses and 130 speed boats (water buses) to mitigate the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy and make transportation cheap for Deltans.

Members of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Europe-UK Chapter have condemned in complete terms the recent Christmas day bombing of Churches in Abuja, the Federal Capital, saying that government should budget more in protecting the lives and properties of the citizens.

The executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation will this month name a new coach for the senior women’s national team, the Super Falcons.

Global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, APC by Schneider Electric, has launched Galaxy 300 uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system into the global IT market.

Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu is the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC. In this interview with Vanguard, he explains why Nigerians need to allow the fuel subsidy to be removed. According to him, “On this fuel subsidy thing, we need to face reality and be serious with ourselves in other to move forward.

A coalition of civil society organisations in Rivers State, has vowed to go ahead with their proposed mass protest against the removal of fuel subsidy despite the warning by the state Police Commissioner against any demonstration in Port Harcourt.

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.

Igbo groups rose from a meeting in Enugu, yesterday, and declared that no group or organisation in the country had monopoly of violence.

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.

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.

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.

With the global paradigm shift to green IT, one of the leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria has set the foundation for a better and cleaner environment with the signing of a historical agreement with Ericsson to upgrade 250 diesel powered stations across the country.