Opinion

Following a series of meetings between the federal government and labour organisations over the astronomical increase in the pump price of petrol, occasioned by subsidy removal, which subsequently triggered angry reactions and unprecedented protests ac...

Agony now trails the family of an Igbo trader, Emeka Ahabuike, who lost his three children and life savings in one fell swoop to a strange fire in Jigawa State. MUHAMMAD ZANGINA KURA, reports. Emeka Ahabuike, a trader in Jigawa State is a bitter man. I...

MIDAT JOSEPH discovers the squalor and pains that have become the lot of the Kaduna Lepers’ Village, known as Hayin Gabriel. The signs of despondency and squalor are latent. They take a firm grip on the decrepit landscape.  Penury is written...

 Mr. Okey Ikpe, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Office Machines Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Office Machines Network LLC, USA, is one of Nigeria’s most experienced Information and Communication Technology experts, who has ma...

Four years after her only son, Charles, disappeared from home, Madam Sabina Okoro, 70, has been agonising over his whereabouts.  She wants to see her son’s corpse even if he’s dead. NNAMDI MBAWIKE , reports. When Charles Okoro escaped ...

Not a stranger to controversy, Hon. Dino Melaye dismisses the Christopher Kolade Committee empanelled by President Goodluck Jonathan to oversee the use of subsidy savings as an Owambe one litre price. Speaking to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’S RUTH CHOJI, ...

Senator Mahmud Kanti Bello represented Katsina North Senatorial Constituency of Katsina State from 1999-2007, before losing his seat to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in controversial circumstances. In this interview with RUTH CHOJI, he warn...

President Goodluck Jonathan recently asked the inspector-general of police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim to proceed on terminal leave, apparently for his inability to stem the current insurgency by Boko Haram in the northern part of the country. Since the presiden...

Y .Y. Sani is a consultant on metering to the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative  (NEITI)and has years of experience in the oil and gas industry. In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, he says the oil industry is already shrouded i...

Hunting rats, like any king of hunting, is not an easy task but some youth near Zariyawa village are making sure there are enough rats to go round. PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID writes. Usman Aziz was pulling weeds in his backyard in Zariyawa, a village in Sulej...

It was a protest few believed would succeed in Abuja given the city’s plastic lifestyle and the dominance of civil servants, who wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of their masters. However, as NICK UDENTA captured, Abuja residents troo...

I am sad and troubled for our nation. I just cannot sleep when I consider the amount of innocent blood that has been spilt in the 24 hours before I wrote this piece. Kano, Bayelsa, Bauchi....it goes on and on. So much blood, so much hate, so much divis...

Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, in this interview with PAUL DADA, x-rays the recent nationwide strike by the organised labour and vouches for the integrity of labour leaders just as he explains the wider implications of the fuel hike...

These are not the best of times for the country.   The spate of bombings for which the Boko Haram Islamist sect has claimed responsibility has set the nation on the edge.  The fabrics of unity, harmony and corporate co-existence of the c...

Following the truce reached by the organised labour and the federal government over the disagreement and subsequent mêlée over President Goodluck Jonathan’s fuel subsidy removal, which was later, partially reversed, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY can confir...