The chief of Anagada community, Gwagwalada area council, Alhassan Musa Dakachin has applauded the Fadama III project in the area, describing it as a life saver for the people of the community. Dakachin, who spoke during a visit of the World Bank team t...
Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, on assumption of office promised to make air travel the preferred mode of transportation in Nigeria. In this exclusive interview with Nkechi Isaac, she speaks on measures put in place to sanitize the i...
“Bauchi State governor Mallam Isa Yuguda has achieved, within a short period of time, what most of his contemporaries have been unable to achieve in office.” That was part of a citation on the governor read yesterday during an annual lectur...
The Benue State office of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has constructed 210 hand pump boreholes, just as it distributed drugs to 276 primary health centres in the 23 local governments of the state. The office has also inaugurated 80 motorized...
The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) is spending the whopping sum of N16M monthly on diesel to power its generator so as to provide stable electricity supply. This is in addition to N2milion being paid to Power Holding Company of Nigeria (...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that over N50billion worth of property was lost to fire incidence in 22 states of the federation in 2010 while the report of 2011 is still awaited. Similarly, no fewer than 23 states ...
Four persons yesterday lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash at Okomi-Aku village along the Lokoja-Abuja highway. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the accident which occured at about 3am involved a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number SM 882 K...
There may be no hiding place for tax evaders in Lagos State any longer , as the State Government has given 10 days ultimatum to 5.3 million tax defaulters to comply or face the wrath of the law. Addressing journalists at a press brief...
The Faculty of Science University of Lagos (UNILAG) was yesterday gutted by fire as students, staff and fire fighters battled the inferno for several hours. The inferno which began very early in the morning was put off around 12 noon. A source in...
Mo Hits crooner Wande Coal is out of with a new music video the first single of his Sophomore album.
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Tuesday in Kaduna assured supporters of the PDP of a free and fair Zonal congress of the party. The congress, scheduled for Wednesday in Kaduna, is expected to produce zonal officials who would run the affairs...
The 2014 Champions League final will be held in Lisbon while the Europa League final the same year is set for Turin, Italy, UEFA announced Tuesday. European football's governing body, meeting in Istanbul ahead of an executive committe...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Umaru Manko, on Tuesday directed the Yoruba and the Hausa communities in the Ketu-Mile 12 area to set up a 12-man peace committee. Manko gave the directive at the meeting he held with representatives of t...
The 58-year-old custodian of a popular night masquerade in Okene, Kogi, Malam Muhammed Jaguda, has been killed by unknown gunmen who allegedly kidnapped him from his residence. The body of Jaguda, the Ogu Clan night masquerade custodian, was discovered...
The Kano Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old man, Auwalu Mohammed, for allegedly killing a lady believed to be his girl friend. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Magaji Majiya, in Kano on Tuesday, indicated that the suspect w...