The family of the murdered Cynthia Osokogu arrived Lagos yesterday to take possession of her body preparatory to her burial slated for today. The burial, according to a source, will take place in her hometown, Bebe, in Ovia Agbor Area of Delta State. A...
The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday directed all state commissioners of Police to set up special units to safeguard telecommunication installations across the country. He also ordered a 24-hour surveillance of all the ins...
Former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon, Governor of Lagos State Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Joseph Sanusi and other associates were yesterday in Lagos State, to pay their last respect for the form...
Akwa Ibom State Governor Chief Godswill Akpabio has described Nigerians calling for the reintroduction of offshore/onshore oil dichotomy in the derivation formula as unpatriotic. He has also warned that such agitation could be laying a foundation...
A huge tree uprooted by a rainstorm crushed the car being driven by the legal adviser to the Niger State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Barrister Joseph Kolo, killing him at once. LEADERSHIP gathered that the legal adviser ...
A lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Hon. Muhammadu Bello Matawalle and other opposition politicians in Zamfara State have given the state government a two week ultimatum to rescind its decision to sack 15, 000 of its workers or face legal...
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), in collaboration with Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions, has organised a module training and strategy, planning and management (SPM) for rectors and principal staff of polytechnics across...
Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun will on Monday, September 10, deliver the 2012 Press Week lecture of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists {NUJ}, Oyo State. The governor will be speaking on “Military In...
The Tin Can Island Port Command of Nigeria Customs Service said it generated N18.4 billion revenue in Aug. 2012. This was against the N17.3 billion revenue recorded in July. Mr Chris Osunkwo, the Public Relations Officer of the command, told the ...
Gov. Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday in Lafia, said that two airports would soon be built in the state as part of his administration's transformation agenda. Al-Makura made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen after undert...
Dana Air office at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has reopened for business, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The reopening of the office followed the lifting of the suspension clamped on the airline by the Federal Government...
The Presidential Amnesty Office (PAO) said on Thursday in Abuja that 30 former militants had been offered welding and fabrication employment by the Proclad Group of Companies in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Chairman of PAO, ...
There is crisis in the home of former military head of state, the late Sani Abacha. A telephone operator in the family house, who is standing trial before a Kano Chief Magistrate’s Court over alleged theft of jewelries belonging to former First L...
The National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) on Thursday in Abuja said the public has nothing to fear about the ongoing ``MTN Ulimate Wonder Promo’’. A statement signed by the commission’s Assistant Director, Media and Public Aff...
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, has unveiled a gender policy for the Nigeria Police. Speaking at the unveiling of the policy in Abuja on Thursday, the minister said that the policy when implemented, would elim...