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Thirty people have been injured in Kano, during an encounter with security agents, LEADERSHIP gathered. There was a massive turnout of protesters in the ancient city. Our correspondent reports that there were sporadic gunshots around the Kano State Gov...
The Commissioner of Police in Abia, Mr Bala Hassan, said on Monday that there was no form of strike in Abia. In a telephone interview with our correspondent, Bala said: “I have monitored the situation in the state and reports from my field ...
As Nigerians took to the streets in their thousands to protest against the removal of subsidy by the federal government, Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Omar Abdulwaheed says nine persons have been shot dead by the Police. Speaking durin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Barring any last minute volte-face by President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerians may be poising for a total show down with the federal government tomorrow; what has been aptly dubbed, the mother-of-all-battles, over the president’s New Year ‘Gi...
2011 was a year defined by crises but 2012 does not appear to promise a paradise as the iron-fisted policies pushed by the presidency pose more challenges for a nation in the throes of change. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis giv...
Following the Christmas day bombing at St Theresa’s Catholic Church Madalla, Niger State, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in 15 local councils in the north – perceived hotbeds of anti-state insurrection. LEADERSHIP...
Ahead of an emergency session of the House of Representatives today, former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a serving Senator, Chief Barnabas Gemade has advised Nigerians not to expect the lawmakers to reverse government&rs...