It took the prompt intervention of the men of the Nigerian Air Force Base in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to rescue the governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, and five of his aides that were involved in an air crash on Thursday night, LEADER...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have launched a massive investigation into how an unregistered firm, Pinnacle Contractors Limited, received a whopping N2.76 billion of the oil subsidy funds without supplying even a lit...
Less than a month to the November 22, 2012 deadline for the submission of its report, months the 41-man Committee on Reconciliation, Healing and Security set up by the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) to work out ways to end the insurgency...
Barely 24 hours after the Eid-El-kabir celebration, a middle age man whose name is yet to be known engaged in an indiscriminate slaughtering of human beings in the form of a ram leaving two persons dead and other Four in a critical condition at the Sai...
As the spate of kidnapping and ritual killings increased across the country, the recent accusation levelled against a medical doctor in Onitsha, has again brought to the fore the question of how safe are the hospitals in the delivery of new-born babies...
Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has been declared winner of Saturday's Governorship election having polled a total of 260,199 votes. Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, the INEC Chief Returning officer, said that the PDP candidate, Chief Olusola Oke, ...
There was pandemonium on Wednesday night in Bauchi as explosions rocked Unguwar Zango, Gudun Hausawa quarters and Government Day Secondary school Kofar Wambai Bauchi. Confirming the incident to LEADERSHIP on phone, the state commissioner of police Muha...
Unknown gunmen suspected to be armed robbers numbering sixty yesterday opened fire on residents of Dogon Dawa community in Kaduna State, killing over 24 persons including the leader of the local vigilante who is the elder brother of the Village head. T...
The purported leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist sect in Nigeria, has denied government statements that the group is involved in peace talks and has said its spokesman Abu Qaqa has been captured by security forces. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan...
At least 20 people, mostly students, have been killed by unknown gunmen in Mubi, north-eastern Nigeria, a police source has told the BBC. The attack happened at a student hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic Mubi campus, the source said. One Mubi r...
President Goodluck Jonathan said today that the country's problems were not within his power as a leader to solve alone, but needed the support of all Nigerians no matter the level they were. According to him, the many Nehemiahs in the National Ass...
A bomb blast and gunfire shook an area around an Islamic boarding school in northern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving two of the alleged attackers dead and others wounded, emergency officials said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast in the...
The federal government yesterday announced seven consortiums as the preferred and reserved bidders for the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) successor generation companies (Gencos) in bids totalling $707.3 million. The govern...
The Senate drew a red line on the sand yesterday and threatened to sack any federal minister who talks carelessly. This was even as Senate President David Mark specifically warned the minister of information, Mr Labaran Maku, over careless talk. Howeve...
The Supreme Court yesterday gave both the federal government and the 36 state governments more time to resolve the legal tussle which arose from the decision of the FG to transfer the sum of $1 billion (N 160 billion) from the Excess Crude Account to t...