Jonathan seeks Musdapher’s confirmation as CJN - The Senate yesterday listed a holistic review of the 1999 Constitution and the amendment of the 2010 Electoral Act, as topmost in their agenda as the senators resumed for full legislative session. ...
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday informed the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee that she was not part of the team that conceived and approved the alleged N10bn single window system agreement between the Nigeria Custom Ser...
The federal government yesterday dissolved the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) following the conclusion of the assignment of a presidential committee set up to look into the problems facing the commission and the subsequent submi...
The Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit of the Kaduna Refinery has been shut down temporarily for repairs following some faults in the system. The unit is the most important conversion process used in petroleum refineries which convert high-boiling and...
In what appears to be a declaration of a state of emergency through the backdoor, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered the chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin, to take absolute control of the security situation in Plate...
Gunmen bombed a police station in Misau, Bauchi State, and robbed a nearby bank yesterday. They killed six people including five policemen at the town that is located 160km north of the state capital, Bauchi. Heavy gunfire resounded throughout the town...
The House of Representatives yesterday summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to appear today just as it maintained that the investigation into the N10bn single window facilitation contract will still be carried out in spite of the...
A suspected cult leader yesterday told officers of the Bayelsa State Police Command how nine members of his cult group known as “Icelanders” raped a girl in the state capital. He also explained the group’s involvement in the killing o...
The National Assembly may reconsider and strengthen the bill that seeks immunity from arrest and prosecution of serving lawmakers, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY investigation can authoritatively reveal. Worried by the incessant arrest of its members by security ag...
When the No. 1 security officer of the country is also hallucinating about the safety of his life, then, nobody else needs to be told that there is trouble in the land.The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim, is sending a message ...
Notable commentator Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar yesterday lamented the insecurity situation in the country, especially the lingering ethno-religious crises ravaging Jos, Plateau State. “Nigeria is on the brink,” said the former military g...
The State Security Service, SSS, yesterday stated that it had uncovered a building in Suleja, Niger State, near Abuja, where improvised explosives devices (IEDs) were assembled. The IEDs were used for the bombing of the INEC office as well as the All C...
Attempts by some “hawks in the presidency” to use the immediate past national coordinator on counter-terrorism, Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim, as a scapegoat amidst insecurity in the country may have backfired. A national daily had reported tha...
Modern technology and latest security gadgets are to be used in the war on terror. This was one of the decisions taken at an emergency Council of State meeting convened by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, yesterda...
Embattled Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has declared that the allegation that he stole over N7 billion of state funds against him is politically motivated. The speaker told some journalists at his GRA lodge in Ik...