Thousands of Nigeria Muslim pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia after the 2011 Hajj rites, are now home sick, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. Most of the pilgrims who had spent about 30 days in the holy land lamented the delay in ret...
Once known for its serenity and natural endowment, the nation’s ‘food basket’, Benue State is fast becoming a battleground of sorts. Michael Oche and Solomon Ayado write that while all attention in the country seem to be focused on th...
former deputy governor of Plateau state and governorship candidate on the platform of the Labour Party in the 2011 governorship election, Pauline Tallen, has attributed the persistent violence and killing in Plateau State, North-central Nig...
The Nigeria Export and Import Bank (NEXIM) and Bank of Industry (BOI), the custodians of the $200m which President Jonathan made available to the Nigerian entertainement industry, has said it will soon disburse the funds. The managing director, NEXIM B...
Men of the 244 Battalion of the Nigerian Army (NA) left Abuja on Saturday for Sudan on a peace-keeping mission. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the director, Army Public Relations, Maj.Gen Ralph Isah, said, via a telephone chat, th...
Morocco’s ruling elite thinks it has skillfully sidestepped the revolutionary fervour sweeping the Arab world by offering a milder, more peaceful vision of change. Following Friday’s elections, King Mohamed VI is for the first time obliged ...
League leaders Manchester City travel to Anfied to face a Liverpool side who are beginning to find their feet in the English Premier league. Last week, Liverpool inflicted a fourth league defeat of the season on Chelsea, when they stunned the ‘Bl...
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday stated in strong terms that she did not have any regrets over her removal, even as she said there was nothing she could lose in being relieved of her ...
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has raised fresh alarm over Nigerians still languishing in Mali after the successful repatriation of over 100 undergoing forced labour and prostitution and the ar...
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday attacked a police station and a bank in Yobe state. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the attack which occurred at Gaidam at about 6pm led to loss of lives and destruction of properties. Altho...
Leader of defunct Biafra Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died early yesterday at the Hammers Field Hospital in London, would have defended Nigeria with comparable zeal, “if he were the one in my shoes”, Gen Yakubu Gowon, former head of state and...
Buffeted by the controversies generated by his recent policy moves, President Goodluck Jonathan will during the week meet with political party leaders, across party lines, to court their goodwill and support in implementing his programmes, LEADERSHIP S...
With Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu out of the way, Ndigbo’s path to the realization of their political aspirations in the larger Nigerian political spectrum may be rough, writes MIKE UBANI. When Dim Ojukwu, Eze Igbo gburugburu ...
Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra and the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), succumbed yesterday to the ravages of stroke, after almost a year of hospitalization at Royal Berkshire Hospital in the...
The director-general, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency(NOSDRA), Mr. Peter Nduka, has disclosed that pipeline vandals and crude oil thieves in the Niger Delta are aided and protected by members of the armed forces. Nduka made the revelat...