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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...
The planned demonstration by the people of Ogoni against the acquisition of 300,000 hectares of their land by the Rivers State government could not hold yesterday due to the presence of soldiers, drawn from 2 Amphibious Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port Har...
The leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has urged Ndigbo to remain calm amidst the present challenges in the country. Uwazuruike, who stated this via text message he sent to n...
Armed robbers yesterday in the early hours waylaid passengers around Ubulu-nor along Benin-Asaba Expressway Delta State and stole about N1.2 million from the passengers who were on their way to the Onitsha market. Reports said that the robbers had bloc...
Iron supplements could be used to prevent deep vein thrombosis and other life-threatening blood clots, new research shows. Each year, one in 1,000 people is affected by clots that form in the veins, and scientists now believe the risk could rise in tho...