The Enugu State University of Science and Technology has expelled five hundred and forty-four Students for allegedly securing admission into the university illegally. But some of the affected students who spoke to our correspondent on conditions of ano...
A total number of 10,000 Police personnel and over 5,000 other security agents will be deployed to the existing eight local government councils in Bayelsa State for the conduct of Saturday’s Governorship poll. The Bayelsa State Police Command ann...
The Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) on Thursday called for special prayers against same-sex marriage in the country. JNI made the appeal in a statement issued in Kaduna and signed by its Secretary-General, Dr Khalid Abubakar Aliyu. The statement fro...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed March 27 to deliver judgement in the suit filed by Alhaji Ayinla Kolawole Jimoh challenging the election of the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, as the Senator representing Kwara Ce...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja adjourned till February 14, 2012, hearing of all the preliminary applications for a joinder filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a necessary party in the suit filed by a governorship aspirant under the Pe...
Real Madrid and Barcelona remain top of football’s rich list as the Spanish duo moved further clear of their rivals from England, Germany, Italy and France. According to the 2012 Deloitte Football Money League, published today, the Liga gi...
US missiles on Thursday killed Al-Qaeda’s chief in Pakistan, one of the Americans’ main targets in the volatile country and wanted for attacks that killed scores of people, officials said. Badar Mansoor, who reputedly sent fighters to Afgha...
Ogun State Government has said that notwithstanding its aggressive drive to attract investors, it would not fold its arm and allow the operations of such investors to put the welfare of residents of the State in jeopardy. The Special Adviser to the Gov...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC), has arraigned one Ayoola Temitayo (aka Nelly James and Dara Martins) before an Igbosere High Court for allegedly obtaining the sum of $5,000 (Five thousand United States Dollars) from an American cit...
A suspected ritualist (name withheld), has been arrested by men of the Kwara police command for allegedly being in possession of three fresh human heads. The police spokesman, ASP Ezekiel Daboh, confirmed the arrest in a telephone interview with newsme...
Ondo State Government has promised to make its intervention in the education sector a general one that is not limited to primary school alone. To this end, the state government disclosed yesterday that plans are in place to build 5 mega secondary schoo...
Senator Abdullahi Adamu is a first-time member of the National Assembly. He was, however, a two-term governor of Nasarawa State. He spoke to ABDULMUMIN BALOGUN on the salaries of legislators, Boko Haram, and his relationship with his successors, ...
President of the Senate, David Mark yesterday called for a reduction in the number of Nigerian embassies and missions abroad for effective and adequate funding. Also, the senate confirmed former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, former Minister o...
A 57 year old hunter, Moshood Ajani has allegedly killed his colleague Hammed Amusan,47 during hunting expedition at Mokore farm settlement near Orile-Owu town, Ayedaade Local Government Area of Osun State. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the hunter ...
The Kano State Joint Security Task Force raised in the wake of recent security challenges arising from Boko Haram threats has said that government is willing to dialogue with members of the Boko Haram to bring lasting peace in the state and the country...