The self-proclaimed holy man has always been a favourite figure for satirical treatments in literary works. The Jero Plays by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, readily come to mind here. But then if you have laughed off Brother Jeroboam’s modus...
The idea of establishing an international institute of journalism to train and retrain journalists in Africa was first mooted at a meeting of the executive committee if the International Organisation of Journalists (OIJ) in 1986. The meeting suggested ...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja yesterday struck out the application filed by the suspended president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami asking the appellate court to direct the Federal High Court in Abuja to adjudicate on his suit bef...
The deputy chairman of the senate committee on petroleum upstream, Senator KabiruMarafa has warned that the insistence of the Central Bank of Nigeria to go ahead and introduce the N5,000 note into the economy despite misgivings by the general public an...
Barely one month after LEADERSHIP Newspapers photojournalist, Mr Ben Uwalaka, was brutalised by mortuary attendants of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital for taking photos of the remains of victims of the Dana air crash, another reporter with the...
The chambers of Festus Keyamo, legal representatives to the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck, has disclosed that, it has already sued the Benue State government client concerning some contractual disputes. A statement issued yesterd...
There was pandemonium in Meiran area of Lagos yesterday morning when protesters believed to be tricycle operators obstructed traffic over a man allegedly shot by a trigger-happy police corporal, attached to Meiran Police station, Mr Abbey Adekunle.&nbs...
The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra state yesterday assumed a new and dangerous dimension, when some unidentified gunmen allegedly stormed the venue of a scheduled state executive meeting in Awka. The party chairman, Comrade Jude Ezenwa...
Nasarawa State chapter of the Action congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday said that it is set to sweep the forth coming local government election in the state. In statement signed by the publicity secretary of the party, Mu’azu Sama’ila, sa...
The Leadership of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly yesterday admitted that members of the House were grilled by the operatives of the anti-fraud department of the Nigeria Police over the controversy triggered by the alleged diversion of N78million a...
The Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos presided over by Hon Justice Abang, in suit no FHC/CS/1054/2012, has restrained Messrs Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese, Yakubu Mohammed and Soji Akinrinade, as well as other interested parties, from acting on behalf of New...
Niger State Governor Dr MuazuBabangidaAliyu has not taken decision on the widely speculated ambition to run for the 2015 presidential election. The declaration is coming on the heels of the widespread speculation that Governor Aliyu alongside incumbent...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has maintained that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governments in the South-West Region are plunging the region into huge and embarrassing debt, saying; “It is only in ACN controlled State...
The World Igbo Congress (WIC) says it will support the Nigeria Bar Association's (NBA) call for appeal of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgment on the Bakassi Peninsula. NBA had in a communiqué issued at the end of its 52nd...
Democrats repeatedly invoked President Obama's decision to order the raid against Osama bin Laden in their highest-profile speeches on the final night of their convention, culminating with Obama's own acceptance speech. Four years after his nom...