Attempts to involve the Speaker of the House of Representatives, AminuWaziriTambuwal, in the $620,000 bribery allegation against the former chairman of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the Management of Fuel Subsidy, Ho...
As Reps whine and fret over the bribery scandal rocking its chambers, the Senate wait in silence, but the consensus is that the Senate President, David Mark has successfully cleared the Senate of such land mines. UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis traces hi...
Meanwhile, Kaduna State governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has condemned the unfortunate bombing of three churches in Wusasa in Zaria local government area, Sabon Gari and Trikania in Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State and imposed a 24-hour cur...
Reprisal attacks after the bombings led to the death of over 50 people with scores injured and property worth millions destroyed in Kaduna. LEADERSHIP correspondents who visited some of the scenes confirmed that a number of Achaba (motorcycle) riders a...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described as a big surprise the news of the Sunday church bombings in Zaria and Kaduna, even as it said the killing of innocent lives must be brought to an end. In a statement sent electronically to journalists by...
A frontline member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kabba/Bunu local government of Kogi State, Aliu Raphael Olorunpomi, was on Saturday abducted by five armed men who stormed his Happy Hour Parks & Garden in Kabba, Kogi State. Olorunpomi&rs...
The Niger State government is to employ 6,000 National Certificate in Education (NCE)and Diploma certificate holders into its schools as a way of improving the standard of teaching and learning in the schools. As a result, the government has establishe...
The struggle for the gubernatorial ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State for the 2015 general elections is begining to cause a rift withinthe party. The development, according to sources close to the leadership of ACN in the sta...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch has thrown its weight behind between June 11 and 13 calls for a national conference to discuss the multifarious problems facing the nation. The association described the convening of a national conferen...
The TY Danjuma Foundation has again put smiles on the faces of the visually impaired after a week training workshop on Braille, mobility and chess game for the blind which ended in Abuja at the weekend. Speaking with journalists at the event, Pro...
The Labour Party (LP), yesterday, asked the leadership of the House of Representatives to out rightly suspend Hon Farouk Lawan from the plenary sessions in the House. The party said that merely suspending him as chairman of the education co...
Hundreds of youths took to the streets in Trikania and Gonin-Gora areas of the Kaduna metropolis, protesting against the bomb blast near Shallom Church of God in the Trikania neighbourhood. Several people, who were wounded in bomb attack, are now re...
The Boko Haram sect, once a small outfit pledged only on bringing strict Islamic law to northern Nigeria, has in recent months, shown an increasingly militant agenda with the killing of innocent Nigerians. Such wanton killings have continued to attract...
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Sunday imposed a 24-hour curfew on the state, following explosions which hit three churches in Zaria and Kaduna. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor, Reuben Buhari, said the curfew was wit...
This is the issue examined by ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM in the light of accusations in the media that celebrities in Nigeria and all over the world belong to one form of illuminati (cult) or the other. People have continued to lament the incidence leading to...