The federal government in 2009 awarded the contract for the dualization of the Abuja – Kubwa expressway to ease the heavy traffic that has become a source of worry for road users plying that route. However, reckless driving on the part of motoris...
Roads within the suburbs are just as important as the expressways, but over the years government has been known to leave them to neglect. BLESSING UKEMENA, writes on how this is affecting the residents of such areas where bad roads are a common sight a...
Worried by the fractious nature of the party in most states, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is set to commence a national reconciliation tour of the six geopolitical zones of the country. The reconciliation tour ...
Former Minister of Defense and a Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in Edo State, Retired Major General Godwin Abbe, has called on his party to rescind it decision to challenge the victory of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the Edo State Election Tribunal. ...
Speaker of the House Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal , the National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd); including Minister for Youth Development Barrister Inuwa Abdilkadir on yesterday visited the scene of last week’s Bomblast tha...
The governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, said yesterday that God revealed to him that the fratricidal crisis in the state was ‘‘because of their sins.’’ The governor said this when he led other security chiefs to visit Riy...
Retired archbishop of Lagos His Eminence Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie has expressed grave worry on the quality of leaders in the country. They are visionless and have therefore failed the country, he said. The versatile clergyman, who spoke at the ...
Notwithstanding last Wednesday’s deadline set by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) for the submission of bid document for Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s generating companies (GENCOs) and the distribution companies (DISCOs), some o...
A 23 year-old private security operative has taken his own life over fear that he would undergo arrest and possible detention in a police station. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the man whose name was given as Solomon from Kaduna State had been accused ...
Pirates suspected to be Nigerians yesterday attacked a Dutch oil vessel, killing two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) said. The pirates stormed the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, an area that h...
Emotions ran high as sympathisers at the 3rd Day Fidda’u prayers for late Hajiya Fatima Al-Mustapha could not hold back tears at the prayer session, protesting the absence of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, her eldest son. There was visible anger...
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers has said that the monthly revenue of the state government has dropped from N18 billion to N13 billion in spite of an increase in expenditure. The governor made the statement in Port Harcou...
Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 14 Edo Governorship election, has filed a petition at the Election Petitions Tribunal challenging the victory of Gov. Adams Oshiomole of ACN. Mrs Joseph...
Gunmen stormed two ships off the coast of Niger Delta early Saturday, killing two Nigerian navy sailors protecting the vessels and kidnapping four foreign workers before fleeing into the darkness, officials said. The attack happened about 35 nautical ...
Two financial experts on Saturday in Lagos expressed worry over the rise in the inter-bank lending rate. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the increase in the rate from 14.8 per cent to 17 per cent earlier in the week would have an...