[Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan faces the biggest battle of his political career as a general strike to protest the end of fuel subsidies entered its second day amid attacks by Islamic militants in the north.]              …

[It was on the 8th of January 1912 when a broad spectrum of African people comprising representatives of people’s and church organisations and other prominent individuals gathered in Bloem-fontein, South Africa, with the chief aim of uniting and bringing all Africans together…