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...
Two pregnant women and a commercial motorcyclist were yesterday killed in Lagos when a commercial bus collided with a motorbike. LEADERSHIP learnt that the driver of the commercial bus took advantage of the fact that the Lagos-Abeokuta Express Wa...
Mr Muda Yusuf, the Director General of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), says the country is losing about N82 billion daily to the ongoing strike. The labour unions and civil liberty organisations started a national strike on Monday in pro...
Armed soldiers and policemen on Thursday took over the major streets in Kaduna metropolis and environs in order to ensure full compliance to the 24-hour curfew imposed by the state government. LEADERSHIP checks revealed that hefty security men took ove...
The nationwide strike and protest in Niger state is getting tougher as protesting youths torched the campaign office of Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu at Mobile Roundabout, Minna. Also razed, was the office of the Independent National Electoral ...
Residents of Kaduna metropolis have received the 24-hour curfew imposed by the state government with mixed reactions. The state government announced the imposition of the curfew on Tuesday after its Security Council meeting which reviewed the ong...
As the nationwide strike action called by organised labour and its civil society allies against the removal of fuel subsidy enters its third day, commercial activities remained grounded across most states of the federation. Also, pockets of violence ha...