A man, Innocent Eze, 35, has been arrested by the Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 12-year--old primary school pupil. The victim has been discharged from General Hospital, Ijan Ekiti, where she was treated for injuries she sust...
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, has applauded President Goodluck Jonathan for removing Farida Waziri as the chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is the US first public reaction to Farida’s r...
Depression, a psychological condition that affects millions of people globally is as old as mankind. This condition poses a serious public health problem due to the fact that it can cause more significant problems to human beings than some chronic dise...
Worried that political parties are not adhering to true democratic processes in nominating candidates who will represent the party in elections, the House of Representatives has mandated its committee on inter-parliamentary affairs to investigate and a...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday commissioned the Nigerian Customs Command and Staff College in Gwagwalada, which also doubles as the World Custom Organisation Regional training centre for the West and central Africa Custom Administration. Speakin...
Wednesday was a terrible day for the Kogi State Police Command, following the killing of four policemen by unknown gunmen at Okene. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the fallen policemen were ambushed at about 8pm at Ahache junction, along Okene-...
Minister of Finance and Coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance that the nation’s economic agenda was hinged on reducing the country’s r...
The nation’s debt has climbed to more than a five-year high at $47.9 billion (about N7.47 trillion) after it was restructured by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The real worry is that it might take more than 13.4 years for the Federal G...
An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Kabiru Dandibi,on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the police rescued about 400 people injured in the uprising of July 30, 2009; the day the late leader of the dreaded Boko Haram Islami...
Ahead of January 14 governorship election in Adamawa State, Yola the state capital came to a standstill as Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and other executive members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterd...
The Benue State Police Command yesterday arrested eight occupants of a Toyota Bus, with registration number AE 710 KAL, at the premises of the newly reconstituted Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The boys we...
The Deputy Governor of Benue State, Chief Steven Lawani, has maintained that the rule of law will prevail in the ongoing legal tussle in Benue State between the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah and Gove...
Cotton farmers in the country have been called upon to rise up to the challenge of reviving the farming of cotton. Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, threw the challenge in Lafia, yesterday, in a goodwill message at the capacity building a...
The Court of Appeal in Kaduna State yesterday upheld the election of former National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Danladi Sankara. Senator Sankara is representing Kazaure Emirate in Jigawa State at the u...
Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has been commended for appointing over 6,000 youths as Special Assistants and Personal Assistants respectively. A northern based social group, Northern Youths Consultative Forum, made the commendation in B...