Nigerian Times

Caption: Street demonstration during Labor Day Photographer: Maillard, J. Country: San Francisco, US Date taken: 1987 Copyright: ILO Nigerian oil workers are on strike as we mark the May Day and they are not the only workers who are unhappy all over the world today. The Punch of Nigeria is asking if there is any hope for Nigerian workers? Yes, there is hope as long as the Nigerian workers join hands together to demand their rights to better wages, better working conditions and secure their future in the nation building of a New Nigeria for the common good of all Nigerians. Let us focus on the plight of the poor majority of wage earners who are being exploited and underpaid by their ruthless employers and contractors. If you are one of the employers of labour, please put yourself in the worn and torn shoes of your workers and ask yourself, if you have not been cheating and exploiting them? How would you feel if your were in their condition? Pay a visit to the homes of your office cl...

Daring unidentified gunmen kidnapped the 3-year-old son of Eze Francis Amadi, a prominent Igbo town chief in the Niger Delta on Thursday, July 12, 2007. The kidnappers are on rampage in the Niger Delta and becoming more desperate by the day as even the innocent children of expatriates and rich oil contractors are no longer safe in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. But most people in the western world and mainstream western media don't know that the ruling political party in Nigeria is responsible for the lawlessness and terrorism in the oil rich south of the 8th largest oil producer in the world. Read the full report .

The BBC has reported the shocking news of a 'UK toddler' Kidnapped in Nigeria .The report said the three-year- old baby girl of a British expatriate worker was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt early Thursday morning.