Maternal deaths in Nigeria have been described in many quarters as unacceptably high. As Nigerians celebrate the World Population Day, UZOAMAKA AJAH and ABIGAIL KUSIMO examine the relationship between access to reproductive health in Nigeria and health...
Twenty-four hours after former president Olusegun Obasanjo and military president General Ibrahim Babangida raised the alarm over growing insecurity in the country, gunmen yesterday attacked the Zaria residence of the vice president, Namadi Sambo, and ...
A senior diplomat with the Nigerian mission in Venezuela, Dr. Olarotimi Ajayi, has been detained by Venezuelan immigration authorities for over two weeks now over allegation of fraud. LEADERSHIP gathered that Ajayi has been detained since July 19, 2012...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned three more oil marketers indicted in the fuel subsidy probe before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. Those arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo include Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, Habila...
In a newly-published special report yesterday,Fitch Ratings (FR) said that the recent rapid credit growth in the Nigerian banking sector may give rise to weakened asset quality and higher impairment charges if left unchecked. “There was a marked ...
Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Femi was born 16 June, 1962 in London to Fela and Remi Kuti and he grew up in the former Nigerian capital, Lagos. His...
Two Air Force Officers and two businessmen were yesterday killed by unknown gunmen in separate attacks carried out in Kano Metropolis. The killing of the two officers occurred around Sa’adatu Rimi College along Zaria Road at 11.30am, while the tw...
There were heavy explosion and sporadic gunshots last night at Janbulo area, along Bayero University Kano Road, following a failed attempt by a suicide bomber to blow up a mosque while prayers were going on. The attack resulted in the death...
The Commissioner for Water Resources and Environment in Benue State, Mr. John Ngbede, in this interview with SOLOMON AYADO, speaks on the alleged politicisation of water distribution in the state, the public outcry against flooding in...
Indications emerged, yesterday, that the suspects including sons of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains arraigned on Thursday before the Lagos High Court in Ikeja Division for alleged involvement in fuel subsidy fraud were...
Lagos clergyman, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has vowed to continue his advocacy for good governance in the country, just as he revealed his encounter with men of the Lagos State Command of the State Security Service (SSS). Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, yester...
The Nigeria Police have explained the delay in prosecuting suspects in the bribery allegation trailing the former Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan and a businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola on the need to carefully ga...
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the 2011 presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday paid a sympathy and solidarity visit to the three churches bombed early last month. A penultima...
Thirteen persons including the driver of the commercial bus conveying traders from Onitsha, Anambra state to Lagos, lost their lives in a fatal motor accident along the Benin-Lagos expressway in the early hours of yesterday. Edo State Deputy Corps Educ...
A –Lagos based lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has alleged that N2.055 trillion was illegally withdrawn from the Federation Account by the Central Bank of Nigeria ,CBN, and paid to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC and other m...