The Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University (GSU), Prof. Idris Mahdi, has said that Thursday’s bombing of the Senate Building of the institution will not affect academic activities in the university. He said this in an interview with...
Kaduna State Government said on Friday that it had cancelled the April Environmental sanitation exercise due to the 33th Kaduna International Trade Fair that will be officially declared open on April 28. Mr Solomon Guruza, the Director of Environ...
Hundreds of Egyptian Islamists protested in Cairo on Friday against what they said was a bid to bring back deposed president Hosni Mubarak's old guard after his last prime minister was allowed to stand in the presidential election. But exposing di...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 65 year-old Islamic cleric Akanbi Ibrahim for allegedly defiling a 15 year-old girl. Ibrahim was arraigned on a three-count charge of rape, force and assault, contrary to Sections 283 and 265 of ...
People look out for different things when choosing who to date. Blessing Ukemena writes on three important traits to look out, whether you are male or female. We may all be guilty of being superficial when it comes to choosing a partner. The physical c...
Recently, Kaduna State governor, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, was in Washington DC where he attended the Nigerian Investors’ Forum on Agriculture and the 2012 United States Exim Bank Conference. At the end of the events, the governor spoke with ABIODUN OL...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has described yesterday’s multiple bomb blasts at THISDAY and Daily Sun offices in Abuja and Kaduna as an assault on the freedom of the press. Senator Mark, who received the news of the multiple bomb a...
The inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Abubakar has called on Nigerians to fortify their homes and office premises in order to help the police check the occurrence of suicide bombings in the country. The police boss, who made this request at the ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday, denied ever granting an interim order restraining the Inspector General of Police (IGP),his officers or agents from investigating or prosecuting the former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki ov...
Investigation by LEADERSHIP yesterday revealed that the suicide bomber who devastated the ThisDay office in Abuja came under the pretext of placing an advert. The bomber, who came in a Isuzu Jeep, eyewitnesses said, first approached the front gate of t...
Survivors of yesterday bomb explosions that killed five and injured 20 people in Kaduna metropolis told LEADERSHIP how they tried in vain to prevent the bomber from carrying out his deadly mission on a three-storey building along Kontagora ...
Yesterday’s bombing of THISDAY Newspapers’ head office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the first such attack on a Nigerian media house in recent times, amplifies the question again: should bombs, bullets and bloodshed define the na...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has commiserated with the management of ThisDay and Sun Newspapers whose offices were rocked by bomb blasts yesterday. A press release signed by the special adviser on Media and Public ...
Less than two hours after the explosion that rocked the offices of Thisday, the Sun and the Moment newspapers, another improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to be bomb exploded along Nnamdi Azikiwe expressway near the second Kaduna Bridge, injuri...
About 13 victims who suffered varying degrees of injury are receiving treatment at the Wuse General Hospital and National Hospital, both in Abuja. When LEADERSHIP visited the National Hospital, sources confirmed that three persons were brought in dead ...