Amnesty's Makmid Kamara received a distress call from activists in Port Harcourt Amnesty International The illegal demolition of the Railway Compound community in Port Harcourt, Nigeria was set to go ahead but then an urgent action and a rapid response

Nigeria's unions have vowed to press ahead with a week-old nationwide strike on Monday if a deal over fuel prices is not reached before then, but a threat to halt crude production has been put on hold. A government panel that has held two rounds of incon

Share THE meeting between the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the fuel subsidy issue was inconclusive on Thursday. The meeting is expected to continue tomorrow. Share However, the NLC pres

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said executive-branch politicians will take a 25 percent pay cut amid labor union plans for a nationwide strike to protest scrapping of fuel subsidies that more than doubled gasoline prices. The

(Updates with lawmakers’ meeting in eighth paragraph, U.S. embassy statement in ninth.) Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Nigerian labor unions plan to go ahead with a nationwide strike to protest the scrapping of fuel subsidies that more than doubled gasoline pric

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Linzie Janis reports on Nigeria's plans to end fuel subsidies as protests against the doubling of gasoline costs mount. (Source: Bloomberg) Nigerian labor unions plan to go ahead with a nationwide strike to protest the