Ahead 2015 general elections, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji UzorKalu convenes Njiko Igbo, a significant socio-political platform conceived to provide focus and give teeth to the agitation for a president of Igbo extraction. LOUIS ACHI examines t...
Gombe State’s anti-social Kalare phenomenon was a tough insecurity challenge in the state until the Governor Ibrahim Dankwmabo administration came on the scene. The state’s Commissioner for Youth Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation, Alhaji ...
Former Under Secretary General at the United Nations, New York, Professor Ibrahim Gambari has expressed sadness at the passing away of Kwara strongman, Dr. Olusola Saraki. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP, Gambari said: "I w...
Senator David Dafinone on Wednesday joined several dignitaries across Nigeria to mourn the death of his colleague and friend, Senator Olusola Saraki, who died on Wednesday. In a condolence message to the family, Senator Dafinone described Saraki’...
Former presidential candidate of Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), Professor Pat Utomi, is the Director-General/CEO, Centre of Value in Leadership (CVL). In this interview with GEORGE OKOJIE, he contends that in a world of new challenges, the best p...
With cameras clicking away amidst banters and reverie, the curtain was finally lowered for members of the Edo State Executive Council last Friday, as the first term of Governor Adams Oshiomhole came to a close, writes TONY IYARE. The end was so memorab...
Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday, set up a 23-man ad-hoc committee to carry out further legislative action on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The bill scaled second reading after extensive and wide-ranging debate b...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has called on participants at the North Central zonal public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution to pass a vote of confidence on the National Assembly. Suswam made the appeal yesterday in Makurdi at the zo...
The Niger State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development Alhaji Abubakar Baba Jibreel has said that the Niger state government is to expend N123.5million on the renovation of the Governor’s Main lodge in Government House, MinnaJibre...
Hell was yesterday let lose at Irona area of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti as no fewer than seven persons were reported injured in a bloody clash between supporters of Action Congress of Nigeria (A CN) and Peoples Democratic Party. Trouble started wh...
The clampdown on commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, occasioned by their restriction on 475 routes in the Lagos metropolis yesterday got the backing of Chairmen of the 20 Local Governments Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas, L...
Three officers of Kebbi State command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Yusuf Isaya, Sahabi Smaila and Mohamed Abubakari who rejected bribe offer from a suspected drug baron arrested in Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi have been commende...
Barely 20 hours after the reconstituted Edo State Election Tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make available election materials to legal Counsels of Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), the Court of Appeal in B...
The Lagos branch Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG), Alhaji Tokunboh Korodo has said that despite the fact that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has passed its second reading at the National Asseembly, the Union...
Second Niger bridge and issues pertaining to infrastructure in the South- East were high on the agenda of a closed door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and governors of the geo-political zone Wednesday night. Anambra State governor, Mr. Pet...