The Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) has called for autonomy for the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation. Its president, Hajiya Maryam Ibrahim, made the call on Sunday in Abuja when she fielded questions at a forum of t...
Gunmen yesterday kidnapped the Bayelsa State chairman of the Change Advocacy Party (CAP), Mr. Deme Ikolomo, at his residence in Yenagoa, the state capital. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that Ikolomo was abducted in the early hours of yesterday by the gun...
Former governors being tried for gross misconduct while in office cannot hide under human rights enforcement to challenge their lawful detention, an Abuja High Court has ruled. The court also declared that it lacked power to stop Nigeria’s anti-g...
The chairman of Kazaure local government area of Jigawa State, Dr. Saleh Yahaya Taiki, has endorsed the alleged presidential ambition of Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido. He described Lamido as the right man for the job.Taiki told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND t...
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...