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The United Nations has expressed fears over the security challenges facing Nigeria. This was disclosed during a parley between President Goodluck Jonathan and the United Nations Secretary-General in Addis Ababa. The duo of Jonathan and Ban ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that the federal government-ordered audit of all government institutions in the oil and gas sector, as well as the solid minerals resources sector, is programmed to fail. The party noted that the government...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher yesterday said contrary to speculations in some national dailies that 25 out of the 29 members of the Judicial Reform Committee comprising signed the report of the committee...
Twenty Local government council chairmen in Niger state have stayed away from public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly for a bill to amend the 2001 local government law in the state. LEADERSHIP observed that the absence of the chairmen w...
The reconstituted Benue State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, yesterday, ordered the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its governorship candidate, Prof. Steven Ugba to bring back the exhibits which were released to them by the secretary of...
Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has called on residents of the State not to panic over any rumoured attack by any group, even as he said that the presence of soldiers on the street helping to curb crises was not good for the country. ...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang has said that the State provided the fund used for prospecting petroleum in the Niger-Delta region in the 1960s. Governor Jang who stated this while receiving the Presidential Youth Committee on Deregulation of ...
Oil multinational, Chevron Nigeria Limited, yesterday, intensified its lobby of host communities in the Brass and Southern Ijaw Communities of Bayelsa State as they protest against the noticeable damages on their environment by the recent fire outbreak...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has fixed February 9 for the trial of former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau and some other public officers who are being accused of f...
Maryam Abubakar, the wife of the acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, is dead. She died on Monday morning, after a brief illness at a hospital in Kano. She was buried according to Muslim rites this afternoon.
Kogi State Acting Governor, Hon. Abdullahi Bello on Monday, sacked the cabinet he inherited from the immediate past governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris. In a statement issued through his Special Assistant on Media, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa Amoka, the acting gover...
Terror suspect, Henry Okah, already jailed more than a year will remain in jail another eight months before his trial starts in South Africa, a judge ruled Monday. Henry Okah’s trial had been scheduled to start Monday. Instead of starting their a...
Gunmen have attacked two more police stations in Kano State, killing at least two people. One of the attacks occurred at dawn on Monday, setting off a gun battle with police, residents said. On Sunday night, gunmen stormed another police station near a...
Achieving a polio-free country this year would remain elusive if the setbacks to the realisation of this dream are not addressed, writes WINIFRED OGBEBO. As Nigeria reaches the deadline for polio eradication this year, there are rising concerns w...
There are indications that Africa will need at least $12billion from now to 2015 to respond to issues of HIV/ADIS. This amount is $4billion higher than the curent spending in the region. The hint was given by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/A...