From Lagos to Abuja, Benue to Kano, Bauchi to Kwara, Oyo to Kogi – the story is the same: A groundswell of mounting protests, like a bushfire, has continued to ravage the country, a fallout of Federal Government’s subsidy removal. The prote...
Prices of foodstuffs and other essential commodities have risen in most markets across the country following the recent announcement of fuel subsidy removal. At noon yesterday in Lagos, many c...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today issue certificates of return to 10 members of Hon. Aminu Masari –led faction of the Katsina State Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) that won the January 13, 2011 primaries organi...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mallam Yahaya Mahmood, yesterday, described the Dr Christopher Kolade- led Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Programme Board as illegal and unconstitutional. President Goodluck Jonathan had yesterday appo...
She lost 85lbs last year and now Aretha Franklin is gaining a husband. The Grammy-winning singer is engaged to long-time companion William 'Willie' Wilkerson. She said in a statement Tuesday, that she and Wilkerson are considering a summer wedd...
Protests over the decision of the federal government to remove subsidy on petroleum products spread as residents shut down business and commercial activities in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Though no casualty was recorded, protesters had to con...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, says the committee will ensure that more funds are allocated to the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), Ilorin, to function optimally. Bwacha said in Abuja ...
Law enforcement agents have beefed up security in Kano metropolis, following a protest by some youths on Monday over the withdrawal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. Correspondent who went round the city on Tuesday morning, reports that a...
Some officers of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos have joined in the protest against fuel subsidy removal. LEADERSHIP gathered that no less than 300 policemen joined the march from Oregun to Alausa, the seat of government in Lagos. The policemen were ...
The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed two friendly matches in preparation for the February 29, Nations Cup qualifier battle against the Amavubi of Rwanda in Kigali. Scribe of the federation, Musa Amadu said the football ruling house has set out...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Rivers State Chapter, says it has withdrawn from further participation in the deliberations of the committee set up by the Federal Government on fuel subsidy removal. The state Chairman of the Congress, Mr Chi...
Professor Olufemi Onabajo, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, has called for the repositioning of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) through the instruments of information and communication technology in order to efficie...
Federal government of Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Global Biofuels Limited, an indigenous bio-fuel producer, for the construction of 15 integrated bio-fuel plants in Nigeria estimated to gulp N414bn. The Minister of Trade and Inves...
The programme manager of Nasarawa State AIDS Control Agency (NASACA), Barrister Ibrahim Azara, has said that the State is occupying the seventh position in the HIV/AIDS prevalence ranking in the country. He disclosed this at the launching of World Bank...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has begun an audit of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) spectrum which was licenced in May 2002 and issued to indigenous companies to provide wireless internet and data services. The audit is to ascertain th...