No fewer than six people, yesterday, lost their lives in an auto crash on the ever busy Lokoja-Abuja highway. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the accident which involved three vehicles, occurred at about 9 am in Gegu village,in Kogi State. The ...
A chieftain of the Abia State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ikedi Emenike has faulted the Supreme Court judgment which confirmed Governor Theodore Orji as PDP’s candidate for the April 2011 gubernatorial election in ...
Former Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor who was in April, 2012 convicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court sitting in The Hague will tomorrow (Wednesday) be sentenced. The sentencing judgment in the trial of the convicted former ...
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given the federal government a two-week ultimatum to prevail on the Lagos State government to recall the 788 medical doctors or face an indefinite strike. The association said it had already...
The Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has urged the federal government to structure the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a way that would make its scrapping or merger with any other anti-graft agency unnecessary. Shetti...
The Lagos State Government has assured about 40 foreign investors desirous of investing in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) and industrial parks of a secured investment in the state, saying the government has put in place, the legal and regulator...
Dissatisfied with the federal government’s slow pace of effort at including them on the third phase of the amnesty programme, militants across the Edo, Delta, Akwa-Ibom and Bayselsa states have threatened to resume hostilities should government f...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Monday dragged a soft sell news magazine, News of the People to a Benin High Court asking for an undisclosed amount running into millions of naira as damages, alleging libel by the publication. In the cas...
The United States may have changed its decision to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) as a result of mixed reactions that followed a proposal by the Department of Justice to classify the group as such. Top official of ...
Following the recent decision of the Senate Committee on Upstream Oil Sector to conduct investigation to determine the truth behind the acquisition, transfers and payments relating to OPL 245 (Oil Prospecting Licence) between the federal government and...
Edo State Police Command, yesterday, alleged that some unscrupulous politicians were importing arms and recruiting thugs to unleash terror in the state ahead of the July 14 governorship election. The Commissioner, Balogun, Olayinka, who spoke in a chat...
Much has been said in attempts by various groups to score President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance in his one year in office. GEORGE AGBA, in this report, analyses the perception of critics and their divergent views to ascertain the veracity or ...
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta on Monday said the government would equip the state University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH) to handle rising urology cases in the state. Uduaghan said while interacting with newsmen in Asaba ...
The former Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, has said he would only reply the abuses allegedly hurled at him by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, by removing him from office at for...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole yesterday said he was optimistic that the Nigeria police would fish out the killers of his principal private secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde. He spoke yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State at the resid...