As the ongoing nationwide strike and mass protest declared by both the NLC and TUC enters Day 5, National President of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Comrade Samson Ugwoke, tells protesters that Labour will not back down unti...
Though 2011 has come and gone, legal pundits believe that the year marked the turning point in the history of the country’s judicial system on grouds of unprecedented intrigues, drama and politics in the third arm of government. PAUL DADA writes....
Establishing religious and cultural accord is difficult anywhere in the world. This is especially true for the long and checkered relationship between Islam and Christianity. Islam’s rise to the stage of world history in the 7th century when Chri...
Residents of Madalla have been thrown into panic, following the 24 hour curfew imposed on the town by the Niger State Government. The state government imposed a 24 hour curfew on the town after protests against the removal of fuel subsidy turned violen...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to the federal government and organised labour to come to an agreement in order to bring to an end the ongoing nationwide strike. Speaking to LEADERSHIP at the Wuse Market, a trader who ide...
Senate President, David Mark and organised labour, yesterday, expressed their optimism over a possible resolution of the strike in protest against zero subsidy policy of government. Both parties stated this after the meeting between the leadership of S...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, yesterday, urged Nigeria’s political and religious leaders to halt the sectarian violence unleashed by a series of recent attacks by the Boko Haram group. “It is essenti...
Hoodlums yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, hijacked the fuel subsidy withdrawal protest and in the process unleashed terror on residents. This was even as they torched the campaign headquarters of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed on Western Reserv...
In this interview with Abdullahi Mohammed Sheka, a frontline member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Mustapha Bala Dawaki extensively lends his voice to the current debate about fuel subsidy, the withdrawal of which has led to all so...
Chief Athan Achonu is the Founder of Project Nigeria, a civil society organisation that promotes good governance. In this interview, he says as an alternative to fuel subsidy removal; the federal government can explore government to government import o...
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has begged the press and fans not to begin to hype the home based team he is putting together to an extent that will make their heads swell with pride. He said he is still rebuilding so the team mainly from the domestic leag...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari has commended the performance of the Super Eagles which is made up of home-based players against the ‘A’ team of Angola in an international friendly in Abuja on Wednesd...
The newly constituted board of Nasarawa United under the leadership of Isaac Danladi has vowed to return the club to the elite league. He said the club is poised to return to top flight football. The club which was relegated from the Nigeria Premier Le...
Chelsea will demand a decision from Bolton Wanderers defender Gary Cahill on the five-and-a-half year contract worth £22 million they have offered in the next 24 hours, according to the Daily Mirror. Blues manager Andre Villas-Boas, along with th...
The federal government yesterday maintained that it has no other option in saving the country from tottering into an economic eclipse than the removal of fuel subsidy and the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry. It appealed to the...