The Commissioner of Police in Sokoto, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, said on Monday that about 5,000 police personnel had been mobilised to provide security during President Goodluck Jonathan official visit to the state on Tuesday. Musa told the News Age...
As the interview to select a new president for the World Bank holds today, the candidacy of Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been described as ``manifestly superior’’ to any other. Prof. Ade Adefuye, Nigeria’s Amba...
Pero Adeniyi one of Tuface Idibia’s baby mamas, has been delivered of a baby boy. Pero gave birth to the child in the United States. The baby boy is Pero’s third child for Tuface and overall, is Tuf...
Massimiliano Allegri has played down speculation that his job is at risk if AC Milan fails to retain the title. Milan suffered a surprise 2-1 defeat to Fiorentina on Saturday, allowing Juventus to move one point clear at the top of the table after they...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) said it had shot and killed three members of the Boko Haram sect and arrested two of them in Miaduguri. The Spokesman of the JTF, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Maiduguri. He added t...
One of the major constraints of Nigeria’s biotechnology has been the of lack of regulatory mechanism which would enable the country to bring in various crop species that will encourage higher yield and also convince people to practice agriculture...
The president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, resigned on Sunday, and the soldiers who ousted him in a coup promised to hand power to the president of the National Assembly. Neighbouring states meeting to discuss turmoil in the north of the countr...
Survivors of the yesterday bomb blast in Kaduna have continued to recount their experiences during the explosion that killed over 30 people, including two secondary school boys, a leper in his 30s, a woman, commercial motorcycle operators a.k.a. &lsquo...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, General Muhammed Sani Salleh (rtd), has said that the insurgency being experienced in Nigeria today can better be regarded as a war situation. Towards this end, he said there was an urgent ne...
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party Taraba State, Hon. Victor Bala who confiscated the working tools of LEADERSHIP reporter including camera, phone and a tape recorder in Taraba State has returned the reporter’s working tools pleadin...
A legal icon, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) at the weekend explained that the people of Edo North and other parts of the state rejected the offer of Deputy Governor dangled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the incumbent Governor, Comrade Adam...
The Faculty of Law of the University of Nigeria has produced over 7000 graduates in 50 years of its existence as the pioneer Law faculty in Nigeria just as it had commenced plans to celebrate its Golden Jubilee. Chairman of University of Nigeria, Enugu...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that its bribery allegation against President Goodluck Jonathan, over the construction or ‘renovation’ of a church in his village, has nothing to do with religious or ethnic considerations...
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, on Friday wedded a 22-year-old lady in Lokoja. Curiously, the wedding Fathia (prayer) took place in the mosque at Lugard (Government) House, just as the reception was also held in t...
The policeman, who shot a pregnant woman Safiya and her husband, Mohammed Kabir, last week when they visited Tunga area of Minna, has been dismissed from service. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dismissal of the policeman was a result of an orderly room t...