A father was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for causing the death of his 15-week-old daughter through oral rape. According to agency reports, Steven Deuman Jr, 26, of Traverse City, Michigan, was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravate...
The Conference of Nigeria Political Party (CNPP) yesterday raised the alarm over moves by the House of Representatives to grant immunity to lawmakers, saying that the bill for that purpose, which scaled through the second reading on Thursday, is a deli...
A few days to the area council election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is engulfed in serious crisis. Investigation by LEADERSHIP Weekend revealed that as a result of the crisis, many card-carrying mem...
A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday convicted two men who trade in cannabis, popularly called marijuana and sent each of them to a six-month imprisonment. The convicts, who had earlier pleaded guilty to one-count charge of trading in cannabis, bro...
The Kogi State command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 65-year-old woman and her daughter with 43.2kg of sativa cannabis. The commander, Mr Idris Bello, disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Lokoja. He sai...
An eight-man robbery gang met its waterloo yesterday as its members were arrested during an attempt to raid a new generation bank in Lagos. The incident occurred at Abule-Egba, an outskirt of Lagos about 2:30pm. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that the rob...
Borno State governor Alhaji Kashim Shettima has challenged both the federal and the state government to join hands to discover the Boko Haram ghosts in order to negotiate with them. The challenge was the highpoint of the address Governor Shettima prese...
An Osogbo chief magistrate’s court yesterday ordered the remand of a 66-year-old man, Ademola Obideyi, in Ilesa prison for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl. The accused was said to have committed the offence on March 2, 2013, in his house, loc...
It was drama on the floor of the Rivers State House of Assembly yesterday as supporters of two rival political leaders in the state, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and minister of state for education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, battled for supremacy. Arg...
A former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has faulted the federal government’s economic policies, saying the nation is being run on voodoo economic policies. Speaking in Lagos at the formal launch and presentation of a book he ...
Persons believed to be hoodlums operating within Asaba and its environs yesterday allegedly raped housewives around Ogbeke Square in Ogbeosowa Quarters during a house-to-house raid in the area. Victims, who narrated their ordeals to LEADERSHIP, said th...
Following the recent high court ruling upholding the eligibility of President Jonathan to contest election in 2015, former Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari, has said that it is better for APC to contest against President Goodluck J...
The National Examination Council has released NECO 2012 external November/December Senior Secondary School Examination SSCE result with 54 percent and 33.8 percent credit pass above in mathematics and English language respectively. The Result released ...
The federal government is to save a whopping N100 billion from reduced allocation to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with overlapping functions. The government, which has started implementing the Steve Oronsaye Report which proposed t...
Worried by the increasing activities of rice smugglers which are impacting negatively on the nation’s revenue and efforts of local millers, the Rice Millers, Importers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (RIMIDAN) yesterday donated 150 patrol...