Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Friday attributed the country`s present challenges to lack of effective communication between the governors and the governed. He said in Abuja that “when a nation stops communicating, it starts to build division&rdq...
The U-17 Women’s National Team, nicknamed Flamingoes, have stepped up preparation for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifying fixture against Kenya. CAF has confirmed that the first leg of the qualifying fixture will take place in N...
The Nigeria Football Federation and the Liberia Football Association on Friday agreed to postpone, by two weeks, the international friendly match between the two countries’ Senior Men’s Teams, earlier billed for Sunday, January 15. Official...
Port Harcourt refineries would begin to work optimally from November after a Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM), the NNPC has assured. Mr Philip Chukwu, Group Executive Director (GED), Refining and Petrochemicals at the NNPC gave the assurance on Thursday i...
Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada (Baraden Keffi), Senior Special Assistant on Budget, Project, Monitoring & Evaluation and National Assembly Matters to the Hon. Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed embodies a man ready to offer service that will trans...
As the ongoing nationwide strike and mass protest declared by both the NLC and TUC enters Day 5, National President of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Comrade Samson Ugwoke, tells protesters that Labour will not back down unti...
Though 2011 has come and gone, legal pundits believe that the year marked the turning point in the history of the country’s judicial system on grouds of unprecedented intrigues, drama and politics in the third arm of government. PAUL DADA writes....
Establishing religious and cultural accord is difficult anywhere in the world. This is especially true for the long and checkered relationship between Islam and Christianity. Islam’s rise to the stage of world history in the 7th century when Chri...
Residents of Madalla have been thrown into panic, following the 24 hour curfew imposed on the town by the Niger State Government. The state government imposed a 24 hour curfew on the town after protests against the removal of fuel subsidy turned violen...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have appealed to the federal government and organised labour to come to an agreement in order to bring to an end the ongoing nationwide strike. Speaking to LEADERSHIP at the Wuse Market, a trader who ide...
Senate President, David Mark and organised labour, yesterday, expressed their optimism over a possible resolution of the strike in protest against zero subsidy policy of government. Both parties stated this after the meeting between the leadership of S...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, yesterday, urged Nigeria’s political and religious leaders to halt the sectarian violence unleashed by a series of recent attacks by the Boko Haram group. “It is essenti...
Hoodlums yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, hijacked the fuel subsidy withdrawal protest and in the process unleashed terror on residents. This was even as they torched the campaign headquarters of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed on Western Reserv...
In this interview with Abdullahi Mohammed Sheka, a frontline member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Mustapha Bala Dawaki extensively lends his voice to the current debate about fuel subsidy, the withdrawal of which has led to all so...
Chief Athan Achonu is the Founder of Project Nigeria, a civil society organisation that promotes good governance. In this interview, he says as an alternative to fuel subsidy removal; the federal government can explore government to government import o...