Can Agriculture Replace Crude? Experts reveal path to Nigeria’s export revival
By Cynthia Alo For more than five decades, crude oil has remained the dominant pillar of Nigeria’s economy, displacing agriculture from the position it once occupied as the country’s major source of revenue and foreign exchange. However, with the global shift towards cleaner energy and growing concerns over the sustainability of oil dependence, experts are […]
Protests persist in Benue, commuters stranded, as fuel sells for N250 per litre
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…
In C/River, it’s curses; fuel is N200, fares 400% higher
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.
Fares now 300% higher in Imo
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.
From Awka, Umeoji says subsidy removal will pay off
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.
Neighbouring countries hit by subsidy removal
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. …
