amaturu- The five- day nation wide strike action embarked upon by the NLC over subsidy removal has affected all and sundry in the Damaturu, Yobe State and its environments. Apart from the astronomical increase the price of petrol, the residents are battling with the increase in price of food stuffs and condiments in the market.

There is a world of difference between the hype which heralded the imposition of emergency rule in some Northern states and the reality on ground in the affected local government areas of those states.

Please allow me to join issues with Prof Jean Her skovits of State University of New York, on an article with the above title published in your newspaper on January 2, 2012.

These are troubled times as the number of placards displaying people’s anger show a people highly incensed. This has been so since the announcement of the removal of the fuel subsidy on January 1 which pegged the price of Petrol at N141 from N65 per litre.

BOMBS, bombs and more bombs marked 2011 as the year of bombs. Few would remember the elections, except for the leaders it produced. Still fewer will think anything of 2011 more than the fears a sect imposed on it.

The Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria recently held a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the removal of Fuel subsidy by the Federal Government of Nigeria, which has now been implemented.

The Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria recently held a Town Hall Meeting to discuss the removal of Fuel subsidy by the Federal Government of Nigeria, which has now been implemented.

Residents of Makurdi, the Benue State capital are yet to come out of the shock of the new pump price of fuel or PMS in the wake of the removal of petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government on New Year Day…

As some Christian religious denominations in Cross River State were in church invoking the spirit of God to direct the affairs of the nation’s leaders so that they would also be sensitive to the plights of the people, having predicted that the 2012 will be brighter than the previous year, they came out with the stark reality that the federal government had inflicted hardship on them.

The removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on the first day of this year has continued to attract divergent comments from people across Imo State, even as the state has remained very quiet despite the palpable tension generated by the withdrawal of fuel subsidy.

A FORMER member of House of Representatives, Chief Chukwuma Umeoji has appealed to Nigerians to accept the removal of fuel subsidy in good fate, arguing that it is something that had to be done in the interest of the country’s economic growth.

The anti subsidy removal protests are not only hitting Nigeria, neighbouring countries such as Cameroon is also getting the heat. But all seems to be quiet on the the eastern and southern Nigerian fronts as protests rock the rest of Nigeria. But by Thursday night, messages on tweeter were still scanty but one of them on Facebook said there would be protest at Okpara Square, Enugu by 8 am. …

PORT HARCOURT: Mrs Chigozie went to the popular Mile 1 market in Port Harcourt Wednesday evening to buy food items. As she was haggling with meat sellers, she did not know when she suddenly burst into tears. Later when she pulled herself together, she muttered to those around that she was forced to start weeping when she realised that the prices of things in the market had gone up by over a 100 percent.

Many indigenes of the Abia State who returned for Christmas and New Year celebrations and were caught up by the sudden rise in price of fuel are now stranded in their villages as they cannot afford the astronomical increase in transport fare on account of the increase in pump price of petrol.

ISAIAH Danmaliki (not real name) works with one of the Federal Government parastatals in Lagos State. But for the recent increment of the national minimum wage he lived on a monthly salary of N18,000 before now.