Detectives from Delta State Police Command, Asaba, have arrested six suspected rapists, who allegedly defiled over 16 teenage girls across the state, putting seven of them in family way, while six others are allegedly said to be battling with HIV/AIDS ...
Several leaders and health experts have arrived Washington DC, the capital city of the United States in preparation for the 2012 International AIDS Conference which will begin today. Ms. Francesca Da Ros, an official of the press department of the Inte...
About 600 families affected by flood and windstorm in Abi in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State have been given relief materials worth millions of naira. The materials included roofing zinc, cement, roofing nails, mattresses, blankets and f...
The Katsina State Government has spent about N15 billion for the improvement of education at five tertiary institutions in the state, according to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Higher Education, Dr. Garba Shehu Matazu. Addressing a press confe...
Muslims in Osun state have been enjoined to use the occasion of this year Ramadan to pray for continuous peace and progress in the state. The Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state, Elder Adelowo Adebiyi gave the charge in a stat...
Few days after the Bureau of Public Enterprises (PBE) opened bids for the takeover of successor companies from the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), the federal government has deployed military personnel to take over the PHCN h...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged all Muslims in Nigeria to pray for peace, stability and progress of the country as they join Muslims in other parts of the world to begin this year’s Ramadan fasting. Special adviser to the president, M...
Wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan yesterday joined the call for the amendment of the nation’s constitution as she asked the National Assembly to consider the inclusion of the roles of the wives of political office holders in the count...
Vexed issues of state police, fiscal federalism, devolution of power and local government autonomy dominated talks at the two-day constitional review retreat in Asaba Also the issues of constitutional recognition of the six political zones and the revi...
A new dawn seems to be taking over the political landscape of Edo State. STANLEY NKWOCHA, who was in the state for the poll, narrates what transpired and why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may be in for a long night rest in its battle to wrest pow...
For daring to add another wife in defiance to his wife’s resistance, Mallam Yusuf Ibrahim, 53, of Shaiskawa quarters in Katsina metropolis met his untimely death. He was allegedly murdered by assassins hired by his 27-year-old wife, Zainab....
The recalled local government chairmen in Imo State have resumed duties in their various council headquarters, but are forced to operate under canopies and trees, LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’s investigation has revealed. It was further gathered that the u...
A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, yesterday struck out a suit filed against the emergence of the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the April 2011 general elections. The court als...
Governor lbrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina state yesterday flag-offed the state’s Allo Model school, an intervention scheme where government step-in to provide clothes and feeding for the almajirai from some selected Allo schools. The pilot sc...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN) has filed a motion on notice asking an Abuja High Court to vacate an order it made restraining work on a disputed property in Abuja. In the substantive suit,...