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The Nigeria Football Federation has ordered the election committee of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) to disregard the directive of the chairman National Sports Commission and the minister of sports, Alh Yusuf Suleiman, who ordered the inclusion of al...
Nigeria’s senior basketball team, D’Tigers have booked a place in the semi finals of the ongoing Africa basketball championship for men taking place in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Yesterday, in the quarter final clash decided between Nigeria ...
The 1st Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Mike Umeh has charged the senior national women’s team, Super Falcons to go all out and achieve good victory over their Cameroonian counterparts in tomorrow’s 2012 Olympic Gam...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles may play on a woeful pitch at the Mahamasina Stadium, Antananarivo, when they face Madagascar in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying. The game will hold on September 4, but a preliminary inspection of the pitch by an ad...
UEFA Champions League winners, Barcelona will take on Europa League winners Porto today in the Super Cup in Monaco. Barcelona won the Champions League beating Manchester United in the final 3-1 while Porto defeated Braga 1-0. Barcelona is gunning for i...
The Rivers State House of Assembly yesterday gave a legislative nod to a request by Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to secure a N100 billion loan from a new generation financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB). Amaechi, had on August 16, 2011 ,...
Kaduna State governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has observed that “Violence for whatever reason is an ill wind, it does not solve any problem, rather compounds issues for those affected”. He made the observation while speaking with journalist...
No fewer than three children were said to have died yesterday when the Lagos Lagoon overflowed its banks from Kuramo beach axis of the Lagos Lagoon.LEADERSHIP gathered from an eyewitnesses that the children, aged between four and six were playing on th...
Libyan rebels made a surprising discovery in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s residence when they found photographs of a former United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice in his photo album. Though, it may not be a surprising discovery as it app...
The federal government has declared its renewed commitment to ensuring that the strategies for the improvement of girl-child education are disseminated to all states of the federation, to enhance the reduction of high gender disparity in the nation&rsq...
The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, is to be entirely repositioned, the vice chancellor (VC), Professor Mustapha Abdullahi has said, even as the ABU 1985 medical graduates have promised to give necessary assistance to the institution. Prof. Abdullahi s...
The federal government has assured that it is committed to restoring the lost glory of Kaduna Polytechnic, just as it commended the return of normalcy to the institutionMinister of Education Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i stated this while receivin...
No fewer than 10 people were confirmed to have lost their lives, while 21 others sustained various degrees of injuries in motor accidents that occurred along the Gwagwalada-Zuba-Lokoja highway in July 2011. Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) unit co...
Motorists in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have faulted the proposed plan by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), to introduce new vehicle number plates and drivers license. A cross-section of motorists who spoke with LEADERSHIP in Abuja...
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) yesterday called on the residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the neighbouring satellite towns to ensure they take active part in the August 27, 2011 monthly environmental sanitation exerci...