The national security adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, has blamed the internal wrangling in the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the rise of insurgency by the Boko Haram sect in the country. Azazi made this disclosure yeste...
The Senate Committee on Pension has disagreed with the Pension Reform Task Team that it has so far recovered N74 billion from pension fund administrators in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation and the Police Pensions Fund. The com...
Startling revelations have continued to emerge from the ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives, which on Tuesday turned in the report of its findings on the administration of fuel subsidy in Nigeria between 2009 and last year. It was learnt y...
Family members, friends and relations of a Lagos-based drycleaner are now at a loss as to what might have come over their son, Henry Nnamdi, who two Sundays ago killed his one-year-old son before using a hot iron to burn the grieving wife, thereby putt...
Survivors of the Kaduna Bomb explosion have continued to recount their ordeals on how God save their lives from the deadly explosion. One of the Kaduna reporters of The Sun Newspaper, Abdulgafar Alabelewe who narrowly escaped death in his effort to get...
Two Fulani community leaders in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau were on Friday arraigned before a Jos Senior Chief Magistrates’ Court, over their alleged complicity in the violence. The community leaders - Mohammed Adamu, 50 and Mohammed B...
The extremist sect, while claiming responsibility for Thursday's attacks, says more bombings are coming the way of the media. According to the Premium Times, the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, say...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday threw his weight behind the report of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee which probed the management of subsidy funds, assuring that any proven culprit would not be spared. Similarly, the Peoples Democra...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has expressed worry over what he called attempts from some quarters to create the impression that he is not eligible to vie for the presidency in 2015. Atiku said yesterday that those who claim to have the gift of f...
Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has declared that there is mutual unity, love and understanding among the Northern traditional rulers. The Sultan spoke at the commissioning ceremony of five first-class Emirs’ houses built in Dut...
An eye witness of the bomb blast that rocked a football viewing centre at Tudun Wada area of Jos, Talbat Abdulrasheed, has disclosed that the perpetrators of the blast drove in a white Mercedes Benz to commit the act. Abdulrasheed further told LEADERSH...
Unknown gunmen yesterday killed no fewer than 17 persons in three separate attacks carried out in Kogi, Plateau and Yobe states while several others sustained various degrees of injuries. LEADERSHIP learnt that the killings which took place took both t...
Defying all odds, the House of Representatives on Tuesday, began the clause by clause consideration of the Subsidy Probe report which was laid on the floor of the House last Thursday but bowed to pressure, giving a lifeline of an additional two weeks t...
Russian scientists from the Institute of Aerospace Instrumentation have discovered deposits of silver and traces of gold and oil in central and northern parts of Taraba. Mr Valery Shaposhinkov, the Economic Counsellor of Russian Embassy in Nigeria, dis...
Former head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Nigeria may experience a revolution in the years ahead unless there is social justice to...