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The outspoken Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Donor Agencies and Dean of the Faculty of Initiatives, Hon. Eseme Sunday Eyiboh in this exclusive interview with TORDUE SALEM of LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, speaks on the faculty’s recent...
At 70, Alhaji Musa Maigida Abdu, chairman of the Unity Forum has spearheaded so many peace talks in Nigeria. In this interview with MICHAEL OCHE, he talks about his life at 70 and the many crises that have bedeviled the country. You recently cl...
The 2012 budget as presented by President Goodluck Jonathan before a joint session of the two chambers of the National Assembly last Tuesday has continued to generate mixed reactions from different quarters, especially as it affects the education secto...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration had cautioned local chiefs to desist from selling lands but few natives are still involved in the illegal land transaction thereby exposing the community to demolition. CHIKA OKEKE reports her findings. &nbs...
The Monastery Was The Intellectual And Cultural Powerhouse Of Medieval Europe A monastery is a building inhabited by a community of men or women, devoted to the service of God and bound by a three-fold vow of poverty, chastity and obedience to a...
Couples are usually freaked about romantic dates and spicing their love life with lots of fun during the courtship period, but once they become comfortable in the relationship, get married and start having children the romance can sometimes dwindle. Wh...
Akonte Ekine, a public relations practitioner based in Lagos in an interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO takes us into a life journey which includes his experience and his achievements as well as his perception of the industry. What was growing u...
Said to be modelled after Schipol International Airport in Amsterdam, JUWE OLUWAFEMI discovers that unlike Schipol which has been redesigned several times and frequently maintained, Murtala Muhammed Internal Airport in Lagos has largely remained a shad...
Making good their threats to resist the proposed collection of tolls on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, expected to begin today, residents of the area embarked on a peaceful protest yesterday which turned violent when the police attempted to stop the rally. ...
A Nigerian, Chile Eboe-Osuji has been elected as one of the six judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), LEADERSHIP gathered. Eboe-Osuji and Morrison Howard of the U.K. were elected at the final rounds of the election held on Friday, dur...
No fewer than 88 persons were killed in 112 road traffic crashes between January and December this year in Sokoto State. The Sokoto State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhaji Aliyu Bawa, made the disclosure at the 2011 ...
The Imo State House of Assembly yesterday passed a motion suspending the chairman, South East Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, for alleged criminal activities, after an executive session. The State Assembly prior to the suspen...
Today, the term ‘revolution’ is being bandied about by many Nigerians. But significantly, it has also become something of a mantra being sung by politically important voices. Samplers of recent allusions or bare-knuckle calls for revolution...
Legendary defender Paolo Maldini believes Milan are still searching for a worthy successor to Maldini and the man himself does not believe that Taye Taiwo is the heir to his throne. The Rossoneri allegedly beat off competition from Real Madrid to...
In well over 100 years, there have been only 25 men who have tasted the Olympian heights and laid claim to the title “Fastest Man on Earth”. It is elite and also an eclectic club. The stories of these fast men are an extraordinary blend of ...