The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has linked Farouk Abdumutallab, the 25-year-old Nigerian who was recently sentenced by a US court for trying to bomb a Detriot-bound airline on the December 25, 2009, with the attempt made by Al-Qeada to bomb a...
No fewer than four persons on Monday night, sustained various degrees of injury when a bomb exploded at People’s Hotel in Bayan Gari area of the Bauchi metropolis. The event that occurred at about 9pm threw the residents of the state capital into...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi and his Flying Eagles counterpart, John Sam Obuh, have set up a mouth watering friendly between both sides on Friday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja. Keshi who made the announcement t...
R&B-Pop singer Tiwa Savage has landed a major endorsement deal with popular beverage company Pepsi, a deal we are told is worth a couple of millions of Naira. We are told that the endorsement deal was sealed with Tiwa’s current managem...
Few years ago, no one would have believed that Nokia, former world’s largest handset maker would be in deep trouble. The Finnish company had in the past few years seen its stranglehold on the phone market eroded first by the likes of ...
The administrative board of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has called for a special prayer pilgrimage (meeting) for Nigeria to overcome its insecurity challenges. The statement, issued by the President of CBCN, Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama ...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Monday that it would soon deploy tracker dogs at event centres and social gatherings. The command's spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the measure was part of efforts to ...
The Kano State Police Command on Tuesday discovered three bombs planted at the old campus of Bayero University, Kano following a tip-off. LEADERSHIP gathered that the bombs were found hidden at the faculty of law and faculty of sciences respectively. T...
Sen. Jubril Marthins-Kuye, the former Minister for Commerce and Industry, said on Tuesday that every effort was being made to resolve the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Marthins-Kuye made this know...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has arrested 21 Ghanaians and five Nigerians at Awoba, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers for alleged illegal bunkering. The task force also recovered more than 250,000 tons of crude oil f...
A political analyst, Dr Mohammed Saddiq, on Tuesday urged Nigerian politicians to emulate the French crisis-free style of politics as shown by President Nicolas Sarkozy who conceded defeat to Socialist candidate Francois Hollande in the...
Some yet to be identified gunmen have killed a Lebanese national, Mr Padi Ibrahim alongside Nigerian, Mallam Aliyu Nuruddeen at kakeyi village in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State. LEADERSHIP gathered that another Lebanese national, Amir Drek...
The trial of former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel began, yesterday, at the State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta even as the judge, Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje reserved ruling on the admissibility of a bank statement&nb...
Osun State governments has concluded arrangement to withdraw the certificate and instrument of office of a prominent traditional ruler, Oba Adebukola Alli, the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area over alleged child abuse. LEADERSHIP gathered...
The former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, identified religious intolerance, ignorance, ethnic rivalry, poverty and unemployment as factors responsible for violent conflicts in Nigeria. Speaking at a two-day “National c...