IN 2003, the then President Olusegun Obasanjo began the process of liquidating the Nigeria Airway and by 2004, when the process was concluded; it left behind tales of woes. In fact, at the peak of the crisis, some of the workers who were leaving in Nigeria Airways Staff quarters, were forcefully evicted with armed Mobile Policemen and their property thrown out to the mercy of the rain and hoodlums.

INFORMAL sector workers in the country have raised alarm over removal of subsidy on petroleum product, saying it will worsen their burden and hardships.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom, has unfolded the commission’s plans for sustainable pension industry in the country.

ON September 21, 2004, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja was alleged to have been flown to Abuja to give a restraining order to Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, from embarking on strike to protest the hike in the pump prices of Petroleum products by then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government.

JANUARY 1, 2012 removal of subsidy on Petrol and subsequent hike in the pump price of the product, came unexpectedly and on a day when Nigerian workers like most of their counterpart world over were celebrating the new year.