The two-week sit-at-home order issued by Simon Ekpa has suffered a setback. Residents of Southeast states shunned the order and attended to their daily schedules yesterday. In Imo State, business owners in the Owerri metropolis opened to customers.  Banks, markets, supermarkets, restaurants and artisans operated…

Labour yesterday insisted on going ahead with today’s planned protest against petrol subsidy removal. But acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun warned against violence. He ordered police commissioners to beef up security. Labour said the protests would start because the relief package unveiled on…

Former Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bedie, part of an old guard of politicians who dominated politics in the West African nation for a generation, has died, aged 89, a close relative told Reuters on Tuesday. Bedie served as president from 1993 until…

The two-day meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, with the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress leaders vowing to begin a nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. This came as…

Aprobe of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  and related entities, has commenced. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the weekend appointed Jim Obaze as special investigator. The related entities to the CBN, also to be probe, are: the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), the Nigerian…

African leaders yesterday resolved to rid the continent of military rule by its ultimatum to coup plotters in the Niger Republic to retrace their steps or face military action. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave a seven-day ultimatum to them to reinstate…

The Nigeria Labour Congress has commenced mass mobilisation ahead of its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal. In a schedule obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, the NLC urged Nigerians…