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The NLC said on Monday in Maiduguri that it had shelved street protest in the ongoing fuel subsidy strike following appeal by security agencies in the state. The Borno NLC Chairman, Mr Titus Abana said in Maiduguri that the strike would not involve any...
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has confirmed the club intends to appeal against Vincent Kompany’s red card in the 3-2 defeat to Manchester United yesterday. Defender Kompany was sent off for a tackle on Nani 11 minutes into the FA Cup th...
Labour has made good its threat by shutting down government and private offices, businesses, markets and other ventures. All across the nation, there are pockets of protests, with violence reported in some areas. What is the situation in your area? Sen...
Patients at the Specialist Hospital, Gombe, have been evacuated from the hospital following the nationwide strike against the removal of fuel subsidy. A visit to the hospital by some reporters on Monday shows that relatives of patients have starte...
As workers heeded the nationwide strike called by the organised labour to protest the withdrawal of fuel subsidy, the situation in Lagos on Monday was relatively calm However, there were pockets of protest in the usual flash points such as Mushin, Fade...
The House of Representatives yesterday voted for the immediate suspension of fuel subsidy removal, but organised labour has insisted that its planned strike action, rallies and mass protests will continue nationwide today. To make good its threat, labo...
Members of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, have been warned to desist or face the wrath of God. The group which has claimed responsibility for the series of bomb attacks on churches and innocent Nigerians was counseled to change its ungodly ways....
Convener of National Consensus Group, Dr Tunji Braithwaite has declared that the revolution that would end the democracy of lies, corruption and exclusion put together by the military traders and looters in 1999, would start today. Speaking yeste...
In spite of the removal of petrol subsidy by the Nigerian Government, smuggling of the product into neighboring Benin Republic persists because of price differential. It was investigation at the border towns of Owode and Kpogidi in the Seme-Badagr...
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State believes that federal government’s recent removal of the 25-year old fuel subsidy regime will benefit Nigeria in the long run. In this interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s LOUIS ACHI, he marshals his reason...
In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, Senator Hadi Sirika who, recently, through the Supreme Court got a certificate of return from INEC to claim his seat as a Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Senator from Katsina, carpets government for rem...
Mr. Collins Onuegbu, is Group Managing Director, Signal Alliance Limited, one of the leading ICT companies in the country. He is passionate about taking Nigeria into the digital age. In this interview, CHIMA AKWAJA looks into his humble beginnings. &n...
As the world waits with bated breath to see what 2012 holds, EZRA IJIOMA in this article, hazards the likely events and where they might occur across the world. Arab Spring – Work In Progress Life is a continuum. No event exists in isolation. Som...
The battle of supremacy between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kogi State, and the state’s chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), from all indication, cannot end now. This is even after the conduct of the governorship ele...
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON THE DEREGULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM SECTOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012 Dear Compatriots, A week ago, I had cause to address Nigerians on the security challenges we are...