The current situation in Syria is a major concern for South Africa, says the country's International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Marius Fransman. "We continue to call for the resolution of the conflict through diplomatic and peac...
Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Professor Joy Ogwu, has been elected to serve as the President of the United Nations' Confab on Small Arms and Light Weapon. Our Correspondent in the United Nations reports that Ambass...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Engr. Mustafa Bello, in this interview with Kingsley Alu, talks about the sector-specific investment policies which the commission is working on, efforts to encourage forei...
Ahead of the October Governorship election in Ondo State, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanaga Tukur, has waded into the crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the party. Since the nomination of the former Nati...
As the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) celebrates 14 years of existence as a political party on Friday, Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has declared that the party was leading Nigeria in the right direction. In a statement issue...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as illegal, unconstitutional and indefensible the $40 million dollars being paid annually to some ex- militants ostensibly to guard the country’s pipelines. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterd...
A group under the aegis of Arewa Youth Coalition (AYC) has condemned in strong terms the recent media attack on the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, just as it said that such attack was uncalled for. A statement signed and made available to...
Policymakers in the cities of Nigeria and other African countries must implement green measures to make sure that growing urban areas can meet the increasing demand for food, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Food and Agric...
Five months after he resigned as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Ogun State chapter of the party has initiated moves to hold a grand civic reception for former President, Chief Olusegu...
An early morning inferno, yesterday, gutted two rooms at the palace of the Emir of Katsina with items worth millions of naira including jewelries allegedly destroyed. It was gathered that the fire occurred around 3:15 am and lasted hours as it wa...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has called on the federal government to arrest, immediately, the former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Andy Uba, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Chibuike Achigbu and charge...
The State Security Service (SSS) was yesterday the subject of an Associated Press (AP) report claiming that personal details of more than 60 of its operatives including its Director General, Mr Ita Ekperyong had been leaked to the internet through unid...
A section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba in Lagos State went up in flame yesterday evening throwing Management and patients on admission into panic. The fire which LEADERSHIP learnt started around 7.30 pm was said to h...
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has taken gold for Nigeria in the men’s -48kg powerlifting with a world record lift of 180kg. Adesokan was a full 10kg ahead of silver medallist Vladimir Balynedc of Russia, while Taha Abdelmagid of Egypt claimed b...
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo, Japan