The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has blamed the over-reliance on imported fuel for the high cost of petroleum products, thereby creating the need for subsidy. NSE President Mustafa Shehu, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, also blamed the w...
Hawkers and food vendors have been making brisk businesses at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, venue of the protest rallies against the removal of petrol subsidy. The items being hawked included satchet and bottled water, soft drink...
The police have arrested more than 200 persons over Wednesday's riot and attack on Lambatta Police station in Gawu Babangida Local Government Area of Niger, an official said. Alhaji Atiku Karfur , the Assistant Inspector General o...
The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Mr Solomon Arase, has commended the peaceful conduct of protesters against fuel subsidy removal in the state, noting that no incident was recorded. Arase said in Uyo on Friday that Monday's rally agains...
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Friday attributed the country`s present challenges to lack of effective communication between the governors and the governed. He said in Abuja that “when a nation stops communicating, it starts to build division&rdq...
The U-17 Women’s National Team, nicknamed Flamingoes, have stepped up preparation for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifying fixture against Kenya. CAF has confirmed that the first leg of the qualifying fixture will take place in N...
The Nigeria Football Federation and the Liberia Football Association on Friday agreed to postpone, by two weeks, the international friendly match between the two countries’ Senior Men’s Teams, earlier billed for Sunday, January 15. Official...
Port Harcourt refineries would begin to work optimally from November after a Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM), the NNPC has assured. Mr Philip Chukwu, Group Executive Director (GED), Refining and Petrochemicals at the NNPC gave the assurance on Thursday i...
Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada (Baraden Keffi), Senior Special Assistant on Budget, Project, Monitoring & Evaluation and National Assembly Matters to the Hon. Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed embodies a man ready to offer service that will trans...
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...