The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded plans to deploy 198 election monitors to Ondo State ahead of Oct. 20 gubernatorial election. The Executive Secretary, Prof. Bem Angwe, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a news briefing org...
Six UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). were wounded in an overnight ambush in the strife-torn eastern part of the country. The UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in DRC (MONUSCO) disclosed this in a statement at the UN He...
Today, while presenting at a plenary luncheon titled Game On: All In to End HIV sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. basketball star and HIV activist Magic Johnson and television personality Wendy Williams joined dozens of people living with HIV/AIDS, ad...
Leaders from the national HIV/AIDS movement have unveiled the Declaration to End HIV/AIDS in United States of America. At a signing ceremony yesterday, at the first ever Summit to End HIV/AIDS in America, being held in conjunction with the 16th a...
The United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), on September 30 – October 3, 2012, at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, was an amazing HIV/AIDS meeting. For nearly two decades, USCA has sought “to increase the strength and diversity of th...
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), on Thursday said the incessant fuel queues in the country were a result of panic buying due to deliberate misinformation. Alhaji Sanusi Abdulkarim, the Kaduna Refinery and P...
The U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested a suspected terrorist, a member of al Qaeda group, who was attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City's Financial District. According to local media, the suspect Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has described Nigeria’s debt profile of 44 billion dollars as clog in the wheel of economic growth. Mr Goodie Ibru, the President of the LCCI, made the observation during an interview with t...
There was pandemonium on Wednesday night in Bauchi as explosions rocked Unguwar Zango, Gudun Hausawa quarters and Government Day Secondary school Kofar Wambai Bauchi. Confirming the incident to LEADERSHIP on phone, the state commissioner of police Muha...
A new project launched today by the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the German Government will seek to eradicate hunger in West Africa by increasing engagement and political commitment in the region. Th...
The United Nations General Assembly is meeting today to elect five non-permanent members to the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2013. At UN Headquarters in New York, the 193-member Assembly will conduct the election by...
ASHTON Kutcher has topped a new list of the best paid TV stars with a whacking £15 million paycheck. The majority of the massive fortune – earned between May 2011 and May 2012 – comes from his role in hit sitcom Two And A Half ...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday granted bail to one Charles Okafor, charged with hijacking an oil vessel. The judge granted Okafor bail in the sum of two million naira with one surety in like sum. A...
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has dropped from over three per cent to two per cent in Katsina State, the Executive Secretary of the Katsina State Agency for the Control of AIDS (SACA), Dr Muntari Hassan, has revealed. Hassan made the revelati...
Two United Nations agencies today launched a new initiative called ‘m-Health’ to use mobile technology, particularly text messaging and applications, to help tackle non-communicable illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease...