The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) say they would resist any price above N65 per litre of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol, saying they will soon issue directives on the date to organise national strikes, street ….

A litre of petrol jumped by 116% yesterday to N141 after the Federal Government sanctioned the removal of the controversial subsidy on the price of petrol.

President Goodluck Jonathan took a bold step yesterday to end the spate of gun and bomb attacks unleashed in some parts of the country by the Boko Haram sect. The president imposed a state of emergency in four states namely Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger.

FOR the third time in as many elections, the Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April 16, 2011 presidential polls, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday lost his bid to overturn the election of a sitting president when a seven-man panel of the Supreme Court affirmed the election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Christian leaders led by the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday reviewed Christmas day bomb attacks by Boko Haram sect that killed more than 40 worshippers as they trooped out of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, near Abuja and declared that enough is enough, vowing that Christians would henceforth fight to defend themselves.

OUTRAGE yesterday greeted the multiple Christmas Day bomb blasts in four states of the country, especially at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, which claimed about 26 lives, maimed numerous others and destroyed over 10 vehicles and buildings.

It was a bloody Christmas Day celebration, Sunday, when the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram carried out bomb attacks in some northern Nigerian cities killing atleast 40 people with several others injured.

It was not an easy task of the Finance Minister , Ngozi Okonjo – Iweala to convince President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo, and members of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, on the need to rescue Nigeria from financial crisis by removing the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, Sunday

It was a harvest of deaths as about 81 people, including an Assistant Commissioner of Police was among 59 other members of the Boko Haram sect were reportedly killed in Yobe State Thursday when soldiers and other security men confronted the sect members in their stronghold, leading to a bloody encounter.

GIVEN the heated debates that have characterised the Federal Government’s planned removal of fuel subsidy beginning from next year, there were intellectual fireworks at yesterday’s Town Hall meeting organsied by the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), on the issue.

The Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Ms Christine Lagarde, yesterday, warned Nigerian leaders to immediately commence the process of rebuilding the nation’s depleting reserves or face an impending economic disaster that would possibly arise from another global financial crisis.

THE Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday joined forces with the growing opposition to the government’s planned removal of fuel subsidy as from next year.

Three policemen were killed weekend in a bloody clash with members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect at Darmunawa quarters in Kano municipality. Four members of the sect also died in the encounter while 14 of them were arrested with assorted Improvised Explosive Devices and three posh cars recovered.

There were strong indications over the weekend that the Federal Government and state governments may be heading for a collision over the sharing formula of the yet to be withdrawn subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol.

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect yesterday attacked the Air Force Comprehensive Secondary School , Dawakin Tofa LGA of Kano State, killing four Air Force officers.