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...
President of Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Comrade Shehu Sani, has told President Goodluck Jonathan to get ready to count dead bodies, bones and ribs of hunger-stricken Nigerians who will be victims of the fuel subsidy removal. He also urged promot...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued certificates of return to 10 members of Hon. Aminu Masari –led faction of the Katsina State Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to confirm them as the winners of the January ...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has warned against the possible hijacking of fuel subsidy removal protest by those it called ‘artificial activists.’ The PDP said the protesters had a legitimate right to protest, but that i...