National insecurity: Police chief Rigim ‘sacked’

Jan. 26 | Ousted Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim Reuters – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on Wednesday, a week after the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack escaped...

Breaking News: Multiple explosions rocks Kano

Jan. 20 | Enenche Akogwu, Channels TV Reporter killed in the Kano attacks. Major news wires have reported multiple explosions in Kano, in the northern region of Nigeria. The multiple explosions happened around 5pm local time. Initial report suggests that the Nigerian...

Jonathan has lost presidential credibility – CLI

Jan. 17 | Oba of Lagos HRH Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu I. BY NAL Staff reporter President “Goodluck Jonathan is a confusionist, who is fast losing the credibility to continue governing Nigeria in peace.” These were the words of a group that identifies...

ACN condemns tribalization of fuel subsidy protest

Jan. 16 | Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ACN National Publicity Secretary. The Action Congress of Nigeria has said it is “mortally concerned” that the ongoing fuel subsidy issue is increasingly being turned to a sectional matter. It  said this had raised concern about...

Fuel subsidy crisis: PENGASSAN orders oil shutdown from Sunday

Jan. 12 | Reuters - Nigeria’s main oil union said Thursday it would shut down output from Africa’s biggest oil producer Sunday if the government did not reverse its decision to remove publicly popular fuel subsidies. Tens of thousands of Nigerians have...

#OccupyNigeria: “FG should go back to N65 per litre,” says Bukola Saraki

Jan. 10 | Nigerians Abroad Live (NAL) staff writer Nigeria’s ruling party chieftain and member of the Nigerian Senate Bukola Saraki on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to revert to pre January 1, 2012, prices for refined crude oil. The call is coming...

Nigeria’s House of Reps. opposes Jonathan on fuel subsidy removal

Jan. 8 | Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker Nigeria's House of Representatives is a member of the ruling PDP, but enjoys the support of the major opposition party, ACN. Associated Press – Nigerian lawmakers on Sunday turned against the president’s decision to...

Government, labour in deadlock over fuel subsidy removal

Jan. 5 | NAL Staff writer In what has now become a cat and mouse chase between Nigeria’s federal government and coalition of workers unions, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its members to embark on a nationwide strike starting from Monday, January...

Bomb blast rocks Maiduguri, one killed

Jan. 5 | Reuters – Two bomb blasts shook the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, and a gun battle in another town killed at least one civilian, police said, the first uptick in violence since President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state...

AMCON to focus on bad loan recovery in 2012

Jan. 5 | Reuters – Nigeria’s state-owned “bad bank” AMCON said on Wednesday it will focus on credit restructuring and debt collection in 2012, after absorbing bad loans from lenders in Africa’s second biggest economy last year to...