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13/12/2023

returned to prove to the lance corporal that he was a soldier and to make it clear he could have handled to situation better.

In the ensuing conversation, the lance corporal accused him "of playing the race card", at which point a more senior soldier, a white sergeant, got involved.

Mr Pile-Grey says the sergeant told him, "if I was going to make it into a race thing, then he wasn't interested". He says the sergeant then told him to "look at my office", pointing out that it was multicultural, before adding: "We can't be racist."

He says the interaction left him "completely flabbergasted". Mr Pile-Grey admits he then lost his temper and describes being bundled out of the guardroom.

He then went to see an officer to explain what had happened and was asked whether he wanted to make a complaint. Mr Pile-Greys said he suggested mediation and wanted to explain to those involved why their behaviour was wrong.

"They had no understanding or concept that what they were actually saying was racist," he says.

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Mr Pile-Grey was the one left facing disciplinary action
Instead, Mr Pile-Grey was eventually told that he'd be the one facing disciplinary action. Eventually he was given a formal charge of insubordination.

It was "the straw that broke the camel's back", Mr Pile-Grey says."I didn't feel that I could continue in an organisation that so disregarded my feelings and my welfare, and actively sought to make me a bad person."

Mr Pile-Grey made a service complaint, which was eventually rejected. It was only then that he took his case to the employment tribunal, which ruled earlier this year.

His claims of direct race discrimination, racial harassment and victimisation were successful.

The Ministry of Defence won't comment on individual cases. However, in a statement it said it did not tolerate abuse, bullying or discrimination of any kind.

The MoD said it actively encouraged personnel to report unacceptable b

22/09/2023

Fans mourning Afrobeats star MohBad have been teargassed in the Nigerian city of Lagos as police said they were blocking traffic on a major highway.

They had congregated at the city's Lekki toll gate after a memorial concert for the 27-year-old singer, who died last week in a hospital in Lagos.

There has been an outpouring of grief for the musician and demands for the cause of his death to be made public.

The Lagos authorities have now exhumed his body as part of an investigation.

BBC Africa Live: Updates from the continent

The concert to pay tribute to MohBad, whose real name was Ilerioluwa Aloba, was held in a park on Lagos's Victoria Island on Thursday evening.

Many of the mourners wore white T-shirts and held candles or their mobile phone torches aloft as they danced to the songs of the late artist, loved for his streetwise, sometimes lewd, lyrics and distinctive baritone voice.

Music stars like Davido, Falz and Zlatan along with Nollywood movie celebrities shared their memories of the singer with the audience.

The hashtag has been trending on social media since MohBad's death - some angered by suggestions he had faced bullying within the music industry since his fallout last year with Marlian Records, a record label owned by musician Naira Marley.

Protests have been held in cities across southern Nigeria, with his fans wanting to know how he died - prompting the Lagos state governor to open an inquiry involving the country's secret police.

After the emotional memorial concert in Lagos, the mourners marched towards the Lekki toll gate to continue their vigil.

For many, their dispersal with teargas brought flashbacks of the notorious incident in October 2020 when armed forces shot and killed protesters at the same place. An inquiry found nine people had been killed, four were missing presumed dead and 35 others injured - many with gunshot wounds.

At that time tens of thousands of Nigerians had been protesting across the country calli

29/08/2023

In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman.

The "string-like structure" was pulled from the England-born patient's damaged frontal lobe tissue during surgery in Canberra last year.

The red parasite could have been there for up to two months.

Researchers are warning that the case highlights the increased danger of diseases and infections being passed from animals to people.

"Everyone [in] that operating theatre got the shock of their life when [the surgeon] took some forceps to pick up an abnormality and the abnormality turned out to be a wriggling, live 8cm light red worm," said Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious diseases doctor at Canberra Hospital.

"Even if you take away the yuck factor, this is a new infection never documented before in a human being."

The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm is common in carpet pythons - non-venomous snakes found across much of Australia.

Scientists say the woman most likely caught the roundworm after collecting a type of native grass, Warrigal greens, beside a lake near where she lived.

Writing in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Mehrab Hossain, an Australian expert in parasitology, said he suspects she became an "accidental host" after using the foraged plants - contaminated by python faeces and parasite eggs - for cooking.

There began what doctors have called an "unusual constellation of symptoms" of stomach pain, a cough, night sweats and diarrhoea that escalated into increasing forgetfulness and worsening depression.

The patient was admitted to hospital in late January 2021. A scan later revealed "an atypical lesion within the right frontal lobe of the brain". The cause of her condition was only revealed by a surgeon's knife during a biopsy in June 2022.

She is recovering well despite making medical history.

"The invasion of the brain by Ophidascaris larvae had not been reported previously," writes Dr Hossain. "The growth of the third-stage larva

23/08/2023

Disembodied voices in the night. Strange apparitions. A chill down the spine. Many people might have experienced spooky things they can’t explain.

Like the residents of the farmhouse at Penyffordd Farm, for example. The former owners of the house in Flintshire, north Wales claimed the house was haunted when they lived there in the 1990s. Across multiple interviews with the press, they claimed that words began appearing on their walls in Welsh – a language none of them spoke, that things began moving in the house on their own, and that they were being haunted by a pregnant young woman who was buried in the garden.

Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost and The Gravestone investigates these reports, visiting the farm and speaking to its former residents. The BBC Three and BBC Wales show features materials from Penyffordd Farm that have been locked away. Until now.

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Sian Eleri (left) investigates a haunting in new BBC Three series Paranormal

In the series, BBC Radio 1 DJ Sian Eleri tries to find a rational explanation for what happened at the house. She is just the latest, however, in a long line of people who have tried to find scientific explanations for ghosts.

BBC Three spoke to two scientists who have done just that, revealing the psychological and environmental factors that led to people believing they have seen ghosts, despite the lack of scientific evidence that the paranormal is real.

‘There’s a black cat hissing at him with black goo dripping from its mouth’

Dr Chris French is head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at London's Goldsmiths University. The unit aims to research psychology behind paranormal beliefs and unexplained experiences.

He attributes many stories of ghostly visions to sleep paralysis. As people move into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, their brains prevent their bodies from moving. In this stage, people can find themselves awake, but unable to move.

The former residents of Penyffordd Fa

22/08/2023

Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK.

She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts.

A key figure in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, she also served as the first female president of the oil exporters group Opec.

The 63-year-old, who has been on bail since her arrest in London in 2015, has denied corruption allegations.

BBC Africa Live: Updates from the continent

Assets worth millions of pounds relating to the alleged offences have been frozen as part of an ongoing probe by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).

"These charges are a milestone in what has been a thorough and complex international investigation," Andy Kelly, from the NCA's International Corruption Unit, said.

The NCA says Ms Alison-Madueke, who served as oil minister from 2010 until 2015, is alleged to have benefited from:

At least £100,000 ($127,000) in cash

Chauffeur-driven cars

Flights on private jets

Luxury family holidays

Use of multiple London properties

Furniture, renovation work and staff for the properties

Payment of private school fees

Gifts from designer shops such as Cartier jewellery and Louis Vuitton goods.

The US Department of Justice has been able to recover assets totalling $53.1m linked to Ms Alison-Madueke's alleged corruption thanks to evidence provided by the NCA in March, the agency says.

The NCA added that its agents had also worked closely with Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Last year, the EFCC said about $153m and more than 80 properties had been recovered from the politician, who was in the cabinet from 2007.

She first held the post of transport minister, then moved to the ministry of mines before taking over the oil portfolio.

Ms Alison-Madueke, who currently lives in London's St John's Wood suburb, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 2 October, the NCA

13/08/2023

The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back, and find that nobody is following” – US President Lyndon B Johnson, 1908-1973.

Talk is cheap. Nigeria is not Lagos. Presidents don’t talk first and think later. Those are three pieces of advice President Bola Tinubu should bear in mind whenever making announcements. Nigeria has recorded another first in national history.

Tinubu has become the first Commander-In-Chief, who declared war – without the troops to carry out his instructions.

The ‘Emperor of ECOWAS’ has been disrobed by his own Senate and many other Nigerians. That is what you get when you take decisions before thinking of the consequences.

Certainly, he has achieved some of what he set out to do. Officially, Nigerian-Niger borders have been closed. In reality, only the big trucks, trailers and tankers have been caught temporarily stranded. The border with Niger is the most porous in Nigeria – with more than 100 illegal entry points.

In fact, life in most border communities will come to a halt if very effective border closing occurs. So, to some extent, the order to close the border is an exercise in futility.

People living in the communities nearest Niger will not cooperate with the Federal Government. There are too many Nigerians whose means of livelihood depend on Niger more than Nigeria. This is only one of several issues that should have been considered before hastily making very important decisions.

MISTAKE CUTTING POWER SUPPLY TO NIGER

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing…” But, total ignorance is fatal if a statesman is making a vital decision. The decision to cut off the power supply to Niger might appear to him as the sort of tough action expected of the leader of the nations opposed to Niger’s junta.

But, it might turn out to be the biggest blunder a Nigerian President ever committed. The repercussions are so frightening as to make one shudder and pray that Niger does not react as it might be forced to.

Nigeria’s electric

05/08/2023

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi

The detained leader of the pro-Biafra group, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPoB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has abolished all forms of sit-at-home in the South-East and declared that every Monday in the region be observed as Economic Empowerment Day, EED.

This was disclosed in a statement by IPoB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Saturday.

Explaining, IPoB’ statement read, ”Economic Empowerment Day, EED, connotes a day set aside for mass mobilisation of Biafrans to devote their resources and means towards reversing the sharp and unprecedented decline in the economic, educational, and social needs of our people occasioned by the prolonged sit-at-home.

“During the EED exercise, the people of Biafran were encouraged to embark on massive deployment of their resources for the empowerment of the educationally disadvantaged and poverty- ridden population of our people.

“Sit-at-home exercise was initially adopted by IPoB as part of its agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra, but variously it became abused by other variants of Biafra agitation, including the most condemned version of Simon Ekpa.

”Following the total cancellation of all forms of sit-at-home in the entire South-East, as clearly and unequivocally encapsulated in Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s handwritten letter which was recently published by special counsel Barrister Alloy Ejimakor, widely trended and deservedly celebrated, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has as a follow up to the recorded acceptability and massive compliance with the directive, further directed Umu Chineke , to henceforth, set aside every Monday as an “Economic Empowerment Day, EED, in the entire South-East.

“During this exercise, Biafrans are encouraged to embark on massive deployment of their resources for the empowerment of the educationally disadvantaged and poverty ridden population of our people.

“Through education, employment, health services, sense of identity and community, our people and indeed, t

29/07/2023

A welcome development

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, declared an end to all sit-at-home, including the Monday sit-at-home and any other day aimed at pressuring the Federal Government to release him from detention.

Kanu made the declaration in his own handwritten letter, which he authorised his special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, to read out to journalists in Enugu yesterday evening.

He unequivocally stated that anyone henceforth engaging in sit-at-home is no longer his disciple. The letter was dated July 24. Ejimakor, who read the letter, said it followed the alleged refusal of Simon Ekpa, the Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), to announce the cancellation and further declaration through his media platforms.

Kanu, however, warned Ekpa to “desist from calling for any sit-at-home henceforth” and “to make a public announcement to the effect that he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) is in receipt of a direct order from him (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) to cancel any pending sit-at-home in place at the moment”.

The full statement reads: “This Public Announcement bears (as shall be reproduced below) the unedited, verbatim instructions containing a Direct Order personally issued by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his own handwriting on July 24, 2023, through me to Mazi Simon Ekpa, instructing him to ‘desist from calling for any sit-at-home henceforth’ and ‘to make a public announcement to the effect that he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) is in receipt of a direct order from him (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) to cancel any pending sit-at-home in place at the moment’; and also that he (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) has, by the same order, ‘authorised me to issue a press statement if he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) fails to make this announcement on his platform’.

“For avoidance of doubt, this Direct Order was personally handed to me by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when I visited him on the said July 24, 2023, at the headquarters of the Department of State Security (DSS), Abuja. Later that day, I tried to contact Mazi

29/07/2023

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, declared an end to all sit-at-home, including the Monday sit-at-home and any other day aimed at pressuring the Federal Government to release him from detention.

Kanu made the declaration in his own handwritten letter, which he authorised his special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, to read out to journalists in Enugu yesterday evening.

He unequivocally stated that anyone henceforth engaging in sit-at-home is no longer his disciple. The letter was dated July 24. Ejimakor, who read the letter, said it followed the alleged refusal of Simon Ekpa, the Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), to announce the cancellation and further declaration through his media platforms.

Kanu, however, warned Ekpa to “desist from calling for any sit-at-home henceforth” and “to make a public announcement to the effect that he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) is in receipt of a direct order from him (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) to cancel any pending sit-at-home in place at the moment”.

The full statement reads: “This Public Announcement bears (as shall be reproduced below) the unedited, verbatim instructions containing a Direct Order personally issued by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his own handwriting on July 24, 2023, through me to Mazi Simon Ekpa, instructing him to ‘desist from calling for any sit-at-home henceforth’ and ‘to make a public announcement to the effect that he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) is in receipt of a direct order from him (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) to cancel any pending sit-at-home in place at the moment’; and also that he (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu) has, by the same order, ‘authorised me to issue a press statement if he (Mazi Simon Ekpa) fails to make this announcement on his platform’.

“For avoidance of doubt, this Direct Order was personally handed to me by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when I visited him on the said July 24, 2023, at the headquarters of the Department of State Security (DSS), Abuja. Later that day, I tried to contact Mazi

27/07/2023

AS part of efforts to promote a cleaner environment and healthy lifestyle, the Federal Ministry of Transportation has encouraged Nigerians to consider bicycles as alternative means of commuting.

The Director, Road Transport and Mass Transit Administration, Musa Ibrahim, who stated this at the one-day stakeholders sensitisation meeting held in Abuja, said the idea is to enhance and heighten the importance of cycling in Nigeria as it will obviously lead to a drop in road crash incidences.

Ibrahim noted that the stakeholders sensitisation meeting is in consonance with the World Bicycle Day that is marked annually on June 3 through a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution.

According to the Director, the World Bicycle Day recognises “The uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle as a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transport, fostering environmental stewardship and health” hence the United Nations 2023 World Bicycle Day theme: ‘Riding Together for a Sustainable Future’.

Speaking further, the Director noted that proponents have equally encouraged the use of bicycles as a means of eradicating poverty, furthering sustainable development, strengthening education, including physical education, for children and young people; promoting health, preventing disease, and facilitating social inclusion.

Furthermore, on the importance of cycling in Nigeria, a proponent for Non-Motorised Transportation, NMT, the Chief Executive Officer, Ochenuell Mobility, Emmanuel John, in his presentation titled ‘Power of Cycling’, argued that cycling initiative extends beyond efforts to address climate change through cut down of carbon footprints.

In addition, John brought to fore that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, countries in a study, among others, outlined that most Africans countries throw away 3% of their Gross Domestic Product, GDP, to traffic congestion annually.

He proposed that

25/07/2023

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said Nigeria has failed the African continent specifically, and the world at large.

Obasanjo stated this in Abuja while giving the keynote address at the public presentation of the book titled, “Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa,” written by former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, who also served as Minister of Finance, Olusegun Aganga.

President Bola Tinubu, represented by his Special Adviser on Monetary Policy, Olawale Edun, unveiled the book.

Obasanjo said, “Over the last 63 years, we have not lived up to expectations. We have disappointed ourselves; we have disappointed Africa; we have disappointed the black race; and we have disappointed the world.”

He, however, added that “what Segun (Aganga) has tried to identify, itemise and recommend in his book is the way forward.

“But the beginning of charting a new course for ourselves is to admit our failure because we have not always put the round peg in the round hole.

“We are carried along by ego and emotion of self, selfishness and self-centeredness, ethnic and religious jingoism, with total lack of understanding of the world we live in and gross misunderstanding of what development entails and how to move fast and continuously on the trajectory of development.”

Obasanjo identified two of the major issues that were interrelated in terms of factors for all-round development.

“These are peace and security, which we cannot achieve without justice, equity and inclusive society. And telling ourselves the truth, we have not done well on these scores in the recent past — in the last decade and a half.

“I will also point at the issue of education, where over 20 million children that should be in school are not in school. We do not need an oracle to tell us the consequences of that for tomorrow,” Obasanjo said.

The former President said the skill acquisition, empowerment and employment of youth would seem to be ignored or not appreciated.

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The Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has given a one-week ultimatum to the Department of the State Security Service (DSS) to either charge the detained suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to Court or set him free.

Justice Hamza Muazu gave the order while delivering a ruling in a fundamental human rights suit instituted against the DSS and others by Emefiele.

According to Muazu, Emefiele has not shown that his arrest and investigation are unlawful, but noted that it is within his right to get a fair hearing.

The Judge further stated that Emefiele cannot remain in detention without a formal charge. He added that the DSS cannot use the period of Emefiele’s detention to search for evidence against him.

He held that the DSS has the power to carry out its constitutional duties of making arrests, detain, and ensuring prevention of internal crime but however, said that such duties must be carried out within the law.

Emefiele had sued the Attorney General of the Federation AGF, the Director General of the DSS, seeking enforcement of his fundamental human rights to freedom of movement and dignity in human life.

In the suit, he had applied that his arrest and detention since June 10 without valid order of court be voided and set aside.

Also he demanded a compensation of N5million as exemplary damages for his alleged unlawful detention.

On 9th June, Emefiele was suspended as CBN governor and arrested in the early hours of June 10 at his Ikoyi, Lagos home.

Shortly after President Bola Tinubu suspended him, the DSS arrested him and he has been in detention since then.

11/06/2023

Rotimi Williams was seen as one of Nigeria's most successful rice farmers seven years ago, but now the 42-year-old's land stands idle.

The problem: insecurity, which has ground his farms to a halt.

In 2012, Mr Williams left his career as a banker and ventured into agriculture. He was profiled in international media and described as the second-largest producer of rice in Nigeria, with thriving farms across the north.

But the threat to his life and the lives of his workers grew too much.

"There was a time my car was shot at on my way back from the farm," he said. "There were also kidnap attempts."

In the past three years, a sharp rise in insecurity has led to gangs kidnap hundreds of people for ransom in Nigeria, and staff of prosperous agricultural enterprises have been particularly targeted, forcing many farms to abandon or reduce operations.

More than 350 farmers were kidnapped or killed in the 12 months up to June 2022 alone, according to a Nigerian security tracking website.

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Rice is a crucial part of many Nigerians' diet

The majority of attacks took place in the northern region where there is swathes of uncultivated land and some of the country's largest farms.

In January 2022, five people were killed in an exchange of gunfire between security agents and armed gunmen on motorbikes, gang members known locally as "bandits", who attacked the premises of GB Foods, a tomato-processing plant in the north-western state of Kebbi.

When the multi-million-dollar factory, partly funded by the central bank, had launched to great fanfare in 2020, it was described in the media as Nigeria's second-largest food processing plant and included the country's largest tomato farm.

Bandits then tried to kidnap some of the staff. They failed, but the plant has been out of operation since.

"There's nowhere else in the world where people require armed security to go to the farm," said Mezuo Nwuneli, the managing partner of Sahel Capital.

His

08/06/2023

It looks like chicken, it smells like chicken and, what do you know, it tastes like chicken.

You would never guess that the piece of meat in front of me did not come from a farm. It was made in a laboratory on an industrial estate just a few miles down the road.

I'm in Huber's Butchery and Bistro in Singapore, which is the only restaurant in world to have so-called cultivated meat on the menu.

Feedback from customers has been "phenomenal", according to the restaurant's owner.

The meat's creator - California-based Eat Just - says it is ethical, clean and green - with no compromise on taste. Billions of dollars are being poured into the industry, but huge question marks hang over its viability as anything beyond a novelty.

Ever since the first lab-grown burger - which cost a mere $330,000 (£263,400) to create - was unveiled in London in 2013, dozens of companies around the world have joined the race to bring affordable cultivated meat to the market.

So far, only Eat Just has managed to get its product approved for public sale after regulators in Singapore - the only country in the world to allow lab-grown meat to be sold - gave its chicken the green light in December 2020.

But it is still nowhere near being widely available. Cultivated chicken nuggets were briefly on the menu at a private members' club in 2021.

That partnership lasted a few months and this year Huber's has started offering a chicken sandwich and a chicken pasta dish to the general public - albeit only once a week with limited dining slots available.

"Cultivated meat is real meat, but you don't have to slaughter an animal," says Josh Tetrick, chief executive of Eat Just, who spoke to the BBC from San Francisco. "This way of eating makes sense for the future," he says.

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Fuel subsidy removal: No going back as NLC insists strike is inevitable

By Oluyemi Ogunseyin

The National Labour Congress (NLC), has insisted that it will call for a strike action as it appears this is the only way it can make the Federal Government to change its stance on the removal of fuel subsidy.

The former NLC deputy president, Amaechi Asugwuni, while speaking on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Monday said that there is no going back on the proposed strike scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, 2023.

Asugwuni asserted that this is the only way out for Nigerians while also claiming that the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not handled the subsidy removal process in a proper way.

“Strike is inevitable because people know that the Nigerian government was paying subsidies because it is not refining itself,” Asugwuni said.

The labour relations consultant noted that Nigerians know a lot about the process of subsidy and expect the government to have a running refinery to carry out the removal.

“So, doing away with subsidy without you refining after 30 years or more suggests incompetence,” he added.

“Anything above the current price without a concrete plan for refineries to kickstart would make the country ‘unwise’ before the world.”

According to Asugwuni, it is illegal for Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to increase the price of its product sale, adding that there are forces beyond the control of the organisation.

“The lawyers have said it is illegal, and therefore NNPC, even though it was legal to do so, I think forces in the market are beyond NNPC,” he explained.

“Because when you allow market force to determine market price, you,

05/06/2023

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Fuel subsidy removal: No going back as NLC insists strike is inevitable

By Oluyemi Ogunseyin

The National Labour Congress (NLC), has insisted that it will call for a strike action as it appears this is the only way it can make the Federal Government to change its stance on the removal of fuel subsidy.

The former NLC deputy president, Amaechi Asugwuni, while speaking on Channels Television Sunrise Daily on Monday said that there is no going back on the proposed strike scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, 2023.

Asugwuni asserted that this is the only way out for Nigerians while also claiming that the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not handled the subsidy removal process in a proper way.

“Strike is inevitable because people know that the Nigerian government was paying subsidies because it is not refining itself,” Asugwuni said.

The labour relations consultant noted that Nigerians know a lot about the process of subsidy and expect the government to have a running refinery to carry out the removal.

“So, doing away with subsidy without you refining after 30 years or more suggests incompetence,” he added.

“Anything above the current price without a concrete plan for refineries to kickstart would make the country ‘unwise’ before the world.”

According to Asugwuni, it is illegal for Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to increase the price of its product sale, adding that there are forces beyond the control of the organisation.

“The lawyers have said it is illegal, and therefore NNPC, even though it was legal to do so, I think forces in the market are beyond NNPC,” he explained.

“Because when you allow market force to determine market price, you,