Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commisson (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and other anti-corruption agencies in Africa will be attending the Commonwealth Conference on anti-corruption b...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday that he was "saddened" by the guilty verdict for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and said his role in the conflict was much different from how it had been portrayed. "What I did...
Policy measures undertaken by the federal government in the past few months would likely result in slower growth for the nation’s economy in the current year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The NBS, in a recent report, foresees...
Niger State House of Assembly has impeached the Speaker, Hon Mohammed Tsowa Gamunu and elected the Chairman of the House Committee on Labour, Hon Isah Kawu representing Bida I as the new speaker. LEADERSHIP had reported exclusively last week abou...
The federal government yesterday in Abuja signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on power projects with the French and Japanese governments, worth $200 million (N31.4 billion) and N2 billion respectively bringing it to a total of N33.4 billion. The Mo...
Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, will tomorrow in Abuja unveil his hit squad for the three big games in the month of June. Already, 24 home boys have been sweating it out in Abuja for the past two weeeks, ahead of the international friend...
Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday, told a high level trade delegation from Japan that Nigeria has over 85 million hectares of uncultivated arable land. The Vice President gave this figure while receiving the delegation led by the Nigerian Am...
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi will replace Inter Milan ace Joel Obi, who has suffered a thigh injury and will be out for a month. Keshi lamented the absence of Obi for next month’s World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers. “It’s sad that he...
World football-governing body, FIFA has named Sudanese referee Khalid Abdel Rahman as the centre man for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Brave Warriors of Namibia, which is scheduled for the UJ Esuen...
In African folklore, countless myths are surely evoked at the mention of an old witch. The wailing of this dark creature is, for instance, taken as portentous, a signpost to evil. So, at its shriek cry in the middle of the night, no true mother w...
The Senate yesterday confirmed the ministerial nomination of Mr. Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, thereby filling the ministerial slot for Sokoto State. Former minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, had resigned to contest for governorship of Sokoto...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said a very strong, modern and proactive military is a catalyst to achieving his administration’s Transformation Agenda and solve the ongoing security problems and development challenges in the polity. Speaki...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, said it has arraigned one Eronini Iwunze before Justice G.U Umar of the Federal High Court, sitting in Umuahia, on a two count charge of obtaining money under false pretence and illegal op...
Disturbed by the delay in the payment of the 53 per cent of 2010 pension arrears to them by the Federal Government, the military pensioners under the aegis of the Nigerian Military Pensioners Association yesterday made a passionate plea to President Go...
Barely a month after some robbers raided a bus and raped some students on Lagos-Benin expressway; the Ogun Poilce Command yesterday said it had foiled a bus robbery attack along Lagos/ Ibadan Expressway. It claimed to have killed four suspects and reco...