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...
Adamawa State governor Admiral Murtala Nyako Rtd yesterday declared a dusk to dawn curfew in the state following Friday’s attack which left no fewer than 12 persons dead. The action, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, sources said,was to forestall an escalation ...
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...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has denied being aware of any court order restraining the organised labour from going ahead with its planned nationwide strike scheduled to commence on Monday, January 9, 2012. The National Industrial Court (NI...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa State has said that the killings in the state in recent times are politically motivated even as the party has been accused of sponsoring the killings. A press statement signed by chairman of the part...
Apparently angered by the activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect in the country, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday called on Nigerians to shun the Islamic sect and its threat, saying “Boko Haram cannot speak for majority of the Nort...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Saturday dismissed the appeal brought by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the competence of the suit filed by Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Silva, seeking to stop the governorship primary electio...
The recent removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal government is biting harder in Sokoto state as motorists are gradually deserting the ever-busy major inter-roads of the state capital. Our correspondent observed that high cost of petroleum has re...
As last minute plans are being made on the indefinite strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) the civil society groups and trade unions in Ondo state have concluded plans for the mass protests across slated...
A coalition of eight civil society organisations drawn from across the country yesterday, warned the Nigerian judiciary not to allow itself to be used by the government to subvert the wishes of the Nigerian people in their struggle against unpopular go...
Niger State Police Command has arrested two persons, including a policeman for allegedly robbing a business, man ,Alhaji Usman of Shekolo Motors. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the robbery took place in the afternoon of Friday. Luck however, ran out o...
Despite the criticisms, nationwide debates and talk shows, the Federal Government went ahead and removed the controversial fuel subsidy Putting the country at crossroads. In this report GEORGE OKOJIE examines the implications of the subsidy remov...
The planned strike by organised labour is already reverberating across the financial markets as interbank lending rates dropped further last week while the naira closed weaker at the interank foreign exchange market on Friday, at 162.10 to the dollar, ...
Commercial banks in Lagos witnessed massive patronage as customers rushed to make withdrawal of cash in preparation for the planned nationwide strike by organised labour, the organised labour proposed like action is part of its activities to protest re...