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THE wave of countrywide protests against the removal of the fuel subsidy entered its second day on Tuesday, with protesters blocking advertisement the Niger Bridge, Lokoja, Kogi State, preventing vehicles from the southern part of the country from travelling northwards and also disallowing vehicular traffic from the North to the South. The protesters, who were over 100, carried placards which bore inscriptions, such as "We need military intervention"; "Jonathan, you are not a good leader"; "Resign now"; "The nation is heading for anarchy." One of the protesters in Ilorin the Kwara State capital was shot dead allegedly by the police at the Post-Office Junction. However, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, Dabo Ezekiel, who confirmed the death of one of the protesters, said the deceased did not die from police stray bullet as alleged. The state government said it regretted the incident and ordered a full-scale investigation i...

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday said it would not rescind the removal of the subsidy on petroleum products. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, told newsmen at the end of the emergency FEC meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja, that government was not unmindful of the pains being experienced by Nigerians, as a result of the action. He said the Federal Government had commenced a ‘massive mass transit scheme’ to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal on transportation. Under the scheme, thousands of mass transit vehicles are to be distributed. He was joined by the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga; and the Minister of Transport, Idris Umar. The emergency meeting, which was chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan, began at 12. 15p.m and around 3.30pm. Vice-President Namadi Sambo; Labour Minister, Emeka Wogu; and the Minister of National Planning, Shamsudeen Usman, were among those in attendance. Absent from the meeting were Finan...

ASAMLY BLOG: 2012 and the battle ahead !!! : In this report, OLUSOLA FABIYI writes on the challenges Nigerians are going to face in the New Year. The year 2011 meant many things to Nig...

he Nations within the spongy Nigeria are still struggling to live in good harmony and some individuals are pushing for same sex-marriage in the country. Millions of Nigerians are in abject poverty, staring to God for deliverance from the shackles of uncaring Nigerian leaders that refused to provide for their basic needs of life -- good roads, food, shelter, health care -- and some have the pertness to instigate same sex marriage. advertisement It is obvious that on January 18, 2007 at the tail end of Obasanjo's administration, the Federal Executive Council kicked against same sex marriage with the passage of Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2006 , and sent it to the National Assembly for urgent action. The intent of the bill was to ban anything remotely associated with being 'gay' or just gay in Nigeria. The Act rigmarole since then before it finally crept into the Senate in 2011. Being the third time (2011) that the legislators would be walking the path of debating Ant...