The Zamfara police command has arrested Sani Umar, also known as Shedan (Satan) for allegedly leading a team of hoodlums to chop off the left wrist of a 25-year-old lady, Malama Fatima Mohammed, in an attempt to snatch her handbag. LEADERSHIP gathered ...
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain yesterday told supporters that he was suspending his presidential campaign, citing allegations of sexual harassment as reason. Cain was accused of sexual harassment while an Atlanta woman claimed that t...
Controversy is brewing over the implementation of the $470 million National Public Security Communication System (NPSCS) by Chinese firm ZTE Corporation. Part of the project consists of the installation of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in man...
Apparently scared of falling out of favour with the presidency, the north’s apex socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday made a U-turn on its earlier stand. Its new position is that “Jonathan’s administration h...
The Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has concluded arrangements to transform the state into Nigeria’s economic hub. Under the innovative scheme, goods will be ferried from the new Osun Regional Market in Dagbolu, Osogbo, to other parts of th...
In the book, How Much Land Does a Man Need, Leo Tolstoy laments the futility of materialism. If the book was a parable of 19th century Russia, the stark interpretation of that parable may be found on No.1 Vattern Street, off Amazon Street, Maitama, Abu...
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE IDEA OF BRINGING NIGERIAN PRISONERS FROM EUROPE AND OTHER COUNTRIES TO THE COUNTRY TO COMPLETE THEIR JAIL TERMS? DON’T YOU THINK THIS CAN HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM? Actually there is no implicati...
Yasmine el-Rufai, eldest daughter of the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasiru el-Rufai, was found dead in her residence in London yesterday. She was 25 years old. The cause of her death is still unknown but there was a suspici...
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Tambuwal, Ihedioha, Others Mourn Former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd) has described the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu as a great Nigerian who fought for the betterment of the society. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP ...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido, has said that the federal government spent $8 billion on the importation of petroleum products in 2011 alone through oil marketers. Sanusi added that&nbs...
Leader of defunct Biafra Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who died early yesterday at the Hammers Field Hospital in London, would have defended Nigeria with comparable zeal, “if he were the one in my shoes”, Gen Yakubu Gowon, former head of state and...
Buffeted by the controversies generated by his recent policy moves, President Goodluck Jonathan will during the week meet with political party leaders, across party lines, to court their goodwill and support in implementing his programmes, LEADERSHIP S...
With Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu out of the way, Ndigbo’s path to the realization of their political aspirations in the larger Nigerian political spectrum may be rough, writes MIKE UBANI. When Dim Ojukwu, Eze Igbo gburugburu ...
Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra and the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), succumbed yesterday to the ravages of stroke, after almost a year of hospitalization at Royal Berkshire Hospital in the...