Nigeria's fuel regulator announced on Jan. 1 that subsidies on imports of motor fuel would end immediately, more than doubling the price of petrol to about 150 naira ($0.93) a litre and sparking
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Nigeria's trade unions say they are suspending protests for two days to allow more talks with the government. The announcement comes on the fifth day of a general strike over the removal of a fuel
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Twenty-four organisations in Kaduna State, under the umbrella of Kaduna Roundtable, yesterday rose from an emergency meeting expressing fears that sinister agents of destabilization were hiding
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Nigeria's government is warning that a paralyzing national strike risks "anarchy" in the oil-rich nation, as demonstrations over spiraling fuel prices and government corruption entered their
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“Our leaders are not concerned about Nigerians. They are concerned about themselves,” said protester Joseph Adekolu, a 42-year-old accountant.Police carrying Kalashnikov rifles and gas masks
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet today to discuss the goverment’s scrapping of subsidies on fuel, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told Channels
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Nigerian labor unions on Wednesday threatened a nationwide and indefinite strike to protest the government's decision to end a subsidy program that had kept gas costs down for more than two
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L to R: Bishop John Ellison, Mike Penny, Rev David Holloway, Canon Andy Lines, Dr Joy Holloway, Rev Hugh Palmer, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Brian O'Donoghue. Not in the picture Rev Paul and Mrs
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Nigerians from different spheres of life on Sunday hailed President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of state of emergency in parts of Yobe, Borno, Plateau and Niger states. Among those who
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Nigerian villagers say oil washing up on the coast comes from a Royal Dutch Shell loading accident last month that caused the biggest spill in Africa's top producer in more than 13
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