News from the states and all the six (6) geo-political zones of Nigeria.
The University of Jos on Tuesday inducted 44 newly graduated Pharmacists and called on them to stay and practice in Nigeria to increase the pharmacists' ratio per population. Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, the university’s Vice Chancellor, in an addr...
The Aviation Joint Security Force arrested two drug traffickers and three suspected ticket fraudsters at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday. Mr Vincent Onye, Head, Crime Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (...
The World Bank is to provide 40 million dollars to Anambra for the development of education, Mr Irajen Appasamy, the bank’s Senior Operations Officer on Education, has said. Appasamy said this in Awka on Monday at a meeting between the bank, Nati...
The President of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote said at the week-end that his organisation would construct a gas pipeline in Oyo State to ease the problem of electricity supply in the state. He disclosed this shortly after paying a co...
Tragedy was averted yesterday in Okene in the central axis of Kogi State, when a car suspected to be on a suicide mission exploded near Living Faith Church with the worshipers escaping bywhiskers. No one seemed to know the actual destination of the sui...
Over 70 residents were rendered homeless in Ibadan as heavy downpour caused floods that swept through the city at the weekend. Although no lives were lost in areas visited by LEADERSHIP, properties worth millions of naira were however destroyed as a re...
The Special Task Force (STF) maintaining peace in Plateau has said that the evacuation order given to some communities in Barkin Ladi and Riyom local governments is based on `military necessity’. The STF on Saturday ordered the inhabitants of fiv...
A 23-year-old woman, Blessing Eyo Okon, was recently electrocuted when a Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, cable cut and fell at the corridor of her hair dressing saloon as a result of a heavy rainstorm. The incident occurred at 25 Mo...
A plane carrying 150 passengers and six crew members crashed into a building in Lagos on Sunday, the head of Civil Aviation Authority told AFP, adding that he fears none had survived. Although a reliable source told said 156 persons were killed, author...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested one of the kidnappers of Miss Patience Ogbodo who was murdered last year by her abductors after a payment of N300,000 was made as ransom. Also arrested was one Chukwudi Udechukwu who allegedly snatched ...
Unknown gunmen shot dead four people and injured one other while they were playing poker cards at Gidan Hamisu Gurgu relaxation spot in Gaida quarters of Kano municipality. According to an eyewitness, the gunmen came on a motorbike and took position be...
Oando Exploration and Production Limited (OEPL), a subsidiary of Oando Plc with 13 exploration and production assets, has announced that it has signed a farm-in agreement with Network Exploration & Production Nigeria Limited (NEPN) for the acquisit...
Work on Asaba roads rehabilitation being executed under the Direct Labour Road (DLA) programme in Delta, has been stalled due to non payment of compensation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the reconstruction of the 2.8 kilomete...
The unorganised informal business sector has bounced back after the federal and Lagos State governments took steps to rid the major seaport road and Oshodi-Apapa Expressway of trucks and tankers, which have been causing traffic congestion on the road i...
Suspected armed robbers on Wednesday killed a police Inspector and one civilian at marina area of Sokoto metropolis. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that Alhaji Aliyu Musa, commissioner of police, confirmed the incident. Mus...