Nigeria may soon run into shortage of premium motor spirit (PMS) commonly known as petrol, as offloading and deployment of about 426,367 metric tonnes of the product already imported and consigned to Nigeria and awaiting b...
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has warned that Nigeria was gradually heading towards a civil war and blamed political leaders who spread religious hate for the situation. Soyinka, who spoke on the World Service of the British Broadcasting Corporatio...
The Nigerian Army, yesterday, said that it was ready to combat Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the country with modern hi-tec equipment even as it urged Nigerians to ignore text messages asking them to relocate for security reasons. Briefing j...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the scheduled governorship election in Adamawa State over perceived security concerns. INEC chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, in a statement circulated to newsmen in Abuja, said that t...
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has explained how the removal of subsidy on fuel will help curb corruption in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry. In a statement issued, yesterday, by the Group General M...
The Federal Government yesterday threatened to invoke the ‘no work no pay’ policy if the workers fail to return to work on the grounds that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) disregarded a subsisting ...
Organised labour in conjunction with civil society organisations has called for the prosecution of those who killed innocent citizens during the on-going protest against the removal of fuel of subsidy. This was contained in statements signe...
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...