Niger Republic has turned to Nigeria for help after being hit by fuel shortage. The West African country reached out to Nigeria despite months of diplomatic tensions and hostile rhetoric. Sunday PUNCH learnt that a delegation of senior officials of the military junta travelled down to Abuja to meet Federal Government representatives. At the end of the deliberation, 300 trucks …

Nice to hear that the nationwide strike action threatened by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the removal of fuel subsidy, which would have begun today, has been postponed. Commonsense, which actually is nowhere common, appears to have prevailed. We thank God for little mercies! Let the NLC learn from the experience of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have put on hold the planned strike action scheduled to start on Wednesday over the fuel subsidy crisis. The delegations of the NLC and TUC met with that of the Federal Government late into Monday evening and agree to suspend the action. The negotiation will continue on 19th June …

A coalition of civil society organisations under the aegis of West African Democracy Solidarity Network (WADEMOS) has raised fears that fuel scarcity may lead to low voter turnout during next month’s general elections. WADEMOS, a coalition of 30 civil society organisations in the West Africa subregion, also challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to clarify the constitutional requirements for …

With the general elections around the corner, it appears that Nigerians would have to endure hardships for a long time to come. Why are we constantly in this situation? Is it because Nigerians are resilient people? Are we born to suffer or is it that we don’t like ourselves? We have been putting up with petrol scarcity that will not …

The camapign organisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has blamed fifth columnists and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the prolonged fuel shortage and the non-availability of the new Naira notes. According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential campaign council, Mr …