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Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Mr. David Omojola has confirmed the arrest of more than 50 suspects in connection with violence and looting during the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. Omojola told newsmen in Benin Cit...
A housewife and a well known business woman in Asaba, Delta State has allegedly beaten up a police sergeant over love advances to her. Reports said the woman identified as Nkechi (surname removed), who resides along DLA Road in Asaba where she operates...
Governor Godswill Akpabio, of Akwa Ibom State yesterday described the spate of insecurity in the country as a great challenge to the collective freedom of the people. He stated this in his address during the laying of wreath at the tomb of the Un...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Mr John Kennedy Opara yesterday in Abuja denied the allegation that he took a one-million-dollar bribe from a Turkish airline to approve it for the transpor...
The Vice President for Africa Region at the World Bank, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, would be leaving that post in May this year, according to the World Bank President, Bob Zoellick, in a statement from the Washington DC headquarters of the organisation . A...
A conservative estimate has shown that properties worth N2 billion may have been lost to last Wednesday’s violent protest in parts of the Niger State capital, Minna in the ongoing nationwide protest against the removal of subsid...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has called on Nigerians not to allow the nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy override national security. Amadi who made this call in an exclusive inter...
Dangote Cement Plc is targeting a Profit Before Tax (PAT) of N38.5 billion for the first quarter ending March 31, 2012.In a filing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the company also sees a turnover of N69.16 billion during the first quarter. Accord...
Despite the thin trading recorded on the equity market following sustained skeletal operations through the remote trading facility of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) arising from the nationwide strike declared by the labour leaders and coalition of c...
Resolution efforts focusing on the downstream petroleum sector deregulation crisis has brought out different intervention styles from the the nation’s bicameral legislature, writes UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis The agitation against the rem...
The, Commissioner of Police Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Mr. Michael Zuokumor, has disclosed that over 150 security operatives from the Police, Military, SSS and some paramilitary organisations are patrolling Abuja to guarantee safety of li...
Long queues yesterday reappeared at various filling stations in Makurdi following the two-day suspension of the week-long nationwide strike called by organised labour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspension which...
Bauchi State Governor Malam Isa Yuguda has promised to offer political appointments and jobs to the 152 former members of the dreaded ‘sara suka’ gang in the state who renounced their membership and surrendered their weapons. The gove...
A combined team of fire fighters from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Julius Berger and the Nigerian Federal Fire Service saved the Senate chamber of the National Assembly from being razed by fire. An eyewitness who spoke with LEADERSHIP SUNDA...
As more Nigerians continue to react to the subsidy removal by the Federal Government, a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Ibrahim Masari, yesterday, accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of being insensitive to th...