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Organised labour vows to mobilise Nigerians against government's New Year day fuel hike.

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Labour says it is poised for an outright war with the Jonathan administration. It is going to be a fight to the finish, they say

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The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, the coalition of opposition political parties in the country, has just issued a statement threatening to mobilise Nigerians to massively protest the cut in petrol subsidy.

Spokesperson of the coalition, Osita Okechukwu, said the mother of all mass actions is in the offing to pressure government to rescind its decision on the matter.

Go to: http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/politics/3271-CNPP-draws-attle-line-over-fuel-subsidy.html to read the statement and more,

The Sultan of Sokoto, and the country’s Muslim spiritual leader, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, on Tuesday branded the fundamentalist Islamic group, Boko Haram, evil, seeking to calm public anger over Sunday’s devastating bombings that killed dozens.

The group has taken responsibility for the Christmas day coordinated killings at the St. Theresa Catholic church, Madalla, Jos, Plateau state and Damaturu, Yobe state, which have fuelled fears of a prolonged sectarian conflict, Read more here: http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3230-Sultan-Abubakar-says-Christmas-bombing-work-evil-men.html

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has decamped six of the home based players currently camping at the Bolton White hotel, Abuja for not measuring up to the required standard.

The Big Boss wielded the axe after seeing the Eagles struggle to a 1-0 victory over a selected Abuja side.

The players that were shown the exit doors for not measuring up to standard includes Fade Adebayo of Kaduna United, Wikki’s Ibrahim Mustapha, Markson Ojobo of Enyimba, Rangers James Okwuosa and Dolphin duo of Fortune Chukwudi and Uche Ochendo. According to Ben Alaiya, the media officer for the Super Eagles, the axed players have since left the national camp for their various club sides, Read more here: http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/sports/3229-Keshi-goes-tough-decamps-six-players.html

Different government agencies and officials coordinating rescue effort and investigation of the Christmas Day bombing at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, have continued to play hide and seek over casualty figures and accounts of the incident.

Although the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) put the casualty figures at 27 (as at Monday), witnesses and survivors insist the casualty was higher. Read more here: http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3226-Government-agencies-hide-and-seek-over-Madalla-bomb-casualties.html

The Obama administration says it has contacted the Jonathan administration in Abuja offering the help of United States security services to track down the perpetrators of the multiple Christmas bombing in Abuja, Damaturu, and Jos, in which scores of Christians where killed at their worship centres, and three security officials at their duty post, last Sunday.

“We offer our sincere condolences to the Nigerian people and especially those who lost family and loved ones” the White House press office said here in Washington in a briefly worded statement which characterized the bloody operation of the fundamentalist Boko Haram sect as “what initially appear to be terrorist acts.” Read more here: http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3227-American-security-help-fish-out-Christmas-bombers.html

The National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayo Oritsejafor, has said that Nigeria’s security agencies have been infiltrated and must be blamed for the current state of insecurity.

“All our security agencies have been polarised along religion. There are people within the security agencies that are promoting their religion instead of protecting Nigeria,” he said while speaking to journalists in Warri about the Christmas Day bombings which have claimed at least 29 lives in three states of the country.
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On Friday December 2, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, cringed when the senate joint committee investigating the management of funds set aside for petroleum subsidy handed her a seven-day ultimatum to produce a secret forensic report on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in her custody.

The audit, done for her ministry by renowned audit and advisory consultancy, KPMG, which exposed the massive financial malfeasance and monumental corruption in the NNPC, is one document the federal government, the petroleum ministry and the NNPC have worked hard to conceal for a little over a year now,  follow the link to read more, http:///sgixNV

The senate has adviced the education minister to dodge administrative bottlenecks and fast-track the implementation of all agreements reached with the Academic Staff Union of Univeristies two years ago to enable the lecturers call off their three-day-old strike.

The senate education committee issued the advice on Wednesday in a meeting with the education minister, Ruqqayatu Rufa’i, where it criticised the Federal government over the continuous  delay in the full implementation of the agreements.

Chairman of the Senate Committee Uche Chukwumerije decried, read more here, http:///uLImfl

The Executive Council of the Federation, otherwise known as FEC, will tomorrow (Wednesday) perform its traditional weekly ritual of contract awards bazaar, and approval of payments for contracts already awarded.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his council of ministers, a presidency source said, will spend more time discussing and approving contracts for no fewer than 47 projects and less time on deliberating on pressing national issues,  click this link to read more http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3078-FEC-contract-bazaar-award-new-jobs-Wednesday.html

The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence has released a bipartisan report detailing the evolution and deadly activities of Nigeria's extremist Boko Haram sect blamed for scores of attacks, including the August suicide bombing of UN headquarters here killing 23 people and injuring more than 80 others, click the to read more http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3063-Fear-Boko-Haram-spreads-America.html