National Broadcast by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, on the Deregulation of the Downstream Petroleum Sector Saturday, January 7, 2012 Dear Compatriots, 1.    A week ago, I had cause to address Nigerians on the security challenges we are facing in parts of the country, which necessitated the declaration of a state […]

With less than 24 hours to the nationwide strike to protest the removal of petroleum subsidy, organised labour has dismissed the possibility of reaching a compromise with the Federal Government to avert the strike. The President General of the Trade Union Congress, Mr. Peter Esele, who spoke on behalf of […]

When President Olusegun Obasanjo was in power we spent 300 billion per year on the fuel subsidy. Under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan it shot up to 1.3 trillion naira in the last one year alone. Can someone please explain to me how it got so high in 4 […]