The world is now a global village, but it is an irony as there is the continuous rise in violence and intolerance across the world, the youths being used to perpetrate these violent crimes. Oniriwa Mofolami, a young entrepreneur has come up with a visi...
The Africa Leadership Forum, supported by Melody for Dialogue among Civilisations Association, involved various stakeholders to galvanise support for increased attention to water issues in Africa. PEMBI STEPHEN-DAVID writes Water experts have em...
She tragically died at the age of 27 earlier this year but Amy Winehouse's music is well and truly living on. The singer's posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures has hit the top of the UK album charts more than four months after her death. ...
The presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in last April’s general elections, Malam Nuhu Ribadu yesterday warned northern leaders to be conscious of the dire consequences ahead if they do not allow peace and development to...
The Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja, Tuesday, sentenced a former Boko Haram spokesman, Ali Umar Konduga (a.k.a Al-Zawahiri) to three years imprisonment. Konduga had earlier pleaded ‘guilty’ to a two-count charge of felony, cri...
Attorney -General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), yesterday disclosed that the Federal government owed a total sum of N40 billion naira in judgment debts. Adoke ,who made this known during a meeting with the H...
Senators, yesterday, failed to take definite stand on whether or not to support the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products. This division in the Upper House is coming a week after the House of Representatives told the presidency to kill the p...
President Goodluck Jonathan has announced his readiness to offer explanations to Nigerians on the resolve of his government to remove oil subsidy. Jonathan who made this statement yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the opening ceremony of...
Commercial activities was last Saturday brought to a halt at Nwaniba timber beach in Uruan local Government area of Akwa Ibom state as the decomposing bodies of three Nigerians killed by Cameroonian army were brought...
A farmer, Mohammed Dauda Ndakotsu, from Washigi Village in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State, has allegedly killed and buried his son, Momodu, 25, following a quarrel between them. LEADERSHIP gathered that Ndakostu was assisted by four o...
A two-year-old girl, Rejoice Aradu, who was kidnapped by hoodlums on November 30, 2011, in Rivers State, was later abandoned by her captors due to her persistent crying. Aradu’s captors, who are already in police net, confessed to have demanded N...
Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday stopped the official inauguration of his 2012 Governorship campaign office scheduled for today. Sylva had gone ahead with his campaign for reelection despite his party’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP...
Over fifteen persons are feared dead in a suicide attack on a commercial hub along Danmusa Road, by Oriakpata, Kaduna State. The commercial centre is known to house many non-indigenes and mainly, vehicle spare parts dealers. Police Commissioner Ballah ...
Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) has called on the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the host state of the 18th National Sports Festival, Lagos to include Scrabble as a medal winning sport for the bi-annual championship. NSF president, Olobatoke Ak...
About 300 policemen yesterday invaded the Adamawa State House of Assembly and prevented the legislators from sitting and performing their official duties. The action was caused by a protest staged by some hoodlums over the impeachment of the speaker, H...