As the strike by the organized labour enters day two, a coalition of Niger Delta Youths, yesterday, joined other Nigerians to speak against the removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan. They warned that failure to ...
Thousands of protesters under the aegis of Labour and Civil Society Organisations (LASCO) yesterday took their demonstration against fuel subsidy removal to the Kwara State Government House, Ilorin. The protesters, which included women, youth and stude...
The Kebbi State government has released 200 vehicles on loan to the state branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), to cushion the impact of fuel subsidy removal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the union on its part...
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), Alhaji Isa Bello Sali, has appealed to civil servants in the country to return to their normal duties. This was contained in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP in Abuja yesterday in which he obse...
Take another look at the two pictures above. The one on the left is that of a residential building in Damangaza Village while the one on the right is another residential building in Wuse II, one of the high brow districts of the Federal Capital Territo...
Pyakasa is a community between Alaita and Chika, along the Lugbe, Airport Road. It is a settlement for the indigenes of the area but most Abuja residents have taken respite in the area because of its affordable rent and its closeness to town compared t...
With curfew already imposed on three states of the federation, a rising death toll and the shutdown of the economy; an alarmed Senate, worried by the turn of events, yesterday rose from an executive session with a mandate that its leadership urgently m...
The nation-wide protests to stop the removal of fuel subsidy have led to the killings of Nigerians by anti-riot policemen. FRANCIS AGBO writes that instead of being a blessing, fuel has become a curse to the people of Nigeria. Oil. It has aromatic effe...
The Minister of Labour and Productivity Chief Emeka Wogu on Tuesday in Abuja, called on Nigerians as well as organised labour to show more understanding for deregulation policy, stressing that government was always ready to dialogue. Wogu made the call...
Rivers Governor, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, says the removal of fuel subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan is to rescue the country’s economy from collapse. Amaechi stated this while addressing a rally organised by the Ni...
The Chairman, Traders Association of Mile 12 Market, Ketu, Lagos, Alhaji Haruna Mohammed, has warned that his members may increase the prices of foodstuffs and farm produce if government does not restore the subsidy on petrol. Mohammed gave t...
After a week of uncertainty as to where the international friendly between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Palancas Negras of Angola will take place, the Nigeria Football Federation yesterday confirmed that the encounter will now hold at the Nation...
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Adamawa governorship election slated for Jan. 14, to Jan. 21. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday that the election was postponed because of the p...
The Federal Government has introduced a centralised commuter bus service for civil servants in Abuja to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal, the Head of Service (HOS), Alhaji Isa Sali, has said. Sali said on Tuesday in Abuja that the ge...
The IMF/World Bank did not instruct or direct the Federal Government to withdraw fuel subsidy, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chukwuemeka Wogu, said in Abuja on Tuesday. He said government took the decision in the best interest of the country...