As the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government continues, a Fulani Socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, yesterday directed its members across the country to stop selling cows. Speaking to journalists in M...
The President of the Nigerian Association of Miners (MAN), Sani Shehu, has described the unprecedented removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on January 1, 2012, as radical and sudden. The President, who spoke in an exclusive telephone inter...
Workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) have said that workers will not dialogue with the Federal Government on the subject of fuel subsidy withdrawal. President of NCSU, Comrade Kiri Mohammed, who spoke with LEADERSHIP yester...
A suicide bomber targeting Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq killed 30 people, just hours after a wave of bombings hit Shiite areas in Baghdad and killed 27 others, officials said. The coordinated attacks targeting Shiites bore the hallmarks of Sunni in...
A landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in the southern Philippines yesterday, killing at least 25 people and burying dozens more, months after government officials warned miners that the mountain above them was guaranteed to crumble. T...
Syrian authorities have released over 500 prisoners accused of involvement in anti-regime activities, state TV reported yesterday, in what appeared to be another gesture to comply with the Arab League plan to end the regime’s 9-month-old crackdow...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has said that it will invoke its special statutory powers under the AMCON Act to recover all its debts, including the accrued interests. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, AMCON wa...
Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila has said that the House will initiate moves to amend the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) Act, following the subsidy removal ...
Protesters against removal of fuel subsidy in Kano yesterday said they have converged at the Jubilee Square in the Central Metropolitan area of the state to launch their fight “against nepotism and bad governance.” They are hoping to turn t...
Students, markets women, and artisans under the aegis of Jerubaal’s Peace Foundation marched through major streets in Abeokuta, capital city of Ogun State yesterday, to protest the rise in the pump prices of petroleum. They later converged on Iwe...
Panic on Tuesday night gripped the people of Birniwa Local Government Area of Jigawa State following an attack allegedly unleashed on a police divisional office by dozens of unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram in which a teen...
No fewer than 12 people have been killed while 10 were seriously injured following a ghastly road accident involving two vehicles at Zubo Village , 26 km away from Azare in Bauchi State. Confirming the incident to journalists, the Bauchi State Sector C...
When President Olusegun Obasanjo was in power we spent 300 billion per year on the fuel subsidy. Under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan it shot up to 1.3 trillion naira in the last one year alone. Can someone please explain to me how i...
The authorities of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, Niger State, has dismissed four students for gross misconduct, the university Registrar, Malam Sama’la Muhammad has announced. The university’s newsletter, ``IBBUL ...
A human rights activist in Kogi State, Mr. Idris Miliki, has called for more protests throughout the country to compel President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his decision on fuel subsidy. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP in Lokoja yest...