President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on his declaration by INEC as the winner of the Oct. 20 governorship election in the State. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, said in ...
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, ...
The long queues for petrol by motorists and other users have disappeared at filling stations in Abuja following NNPC’s increased supply of the product, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent, who visited major filling stati...
Hajiya Maryam Ibrahim, president of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) says Nigeria needs no fewer than 100, 000 professional accountants for effective coverage. Ibrahim, who featured at a forum of the News Agency of ...
Former head of state Ernest Shonekan on Sunday in Abuja called for dialogue with leaders of those responsible for the spate of insecurity in parts of the country. He made the call at the graduation ceremony for participants in Executive Intelligence Ma...
Dr Adams Oshiobugie, an agriculturist, has said that the recent floods in some parts of the country may not cause food crisis in the country. Oshiobugie, the Deputy Provost, Edo College of Agriculture, said in an interview with the News Agency of Niger...
The Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) has called for autonomy for the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation. Its president, Hajiya Maryam Ibrahim, made the call on Sunday in Abuja when she fielded questions at a forum of t...
Gunmen yesterday kidnapped the Bayelsa State chairman of the Change Advocacy Party (CAP), Mr. Deme Ikolomo, at his residence in Yenagoa, the state capital. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that Ikolomo was abducted in the early hours of yesterday by the gun...
Former governors being tried for gross misconduct while in office cannot hide under human rights enforcement to challenge their lawful detention, an Abuja High Court has ruled. The court also declared that it lacked power to stop Nigeria’s anti-g...
The chairman of Kazaure local government area of Jigawa State, Dr. Saleh Yahaya Taiki, has endorsed the alleged presidential ambition of Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido. He described Lamido as the right man for the job.Taiki told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND t...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded plans to deploy 198 election monitors to Ondo State ahead of Oct. 20 gubernatorial election. The Executive Secretary, Prof. Bem Angwe, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a news briefing org...
Six UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). were wounded in an overnight ambush in the strife-torn eastern part of the country. The UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in DRC (MONUSCO) disclosed this in a statement at the UN He...
Today, while presenting at a plenary luncheon titled Game On: All In to End HIV sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. basketball star and HIV activist Magic Johnson and television personality Wendy Williams joined dozens of people living with HIV/AIDS, ad...
Leaders from the national HIV/AIDS movement have unveiled the Declaration to End HIV/AIDS in United States of America. At a signing ceremony yesterday, at the first ever Summit to End HIV/AIDS in America, being held in conjunction with the 16th a...
The United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), on September 30 – October 3, 2012, at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, was an amazing HIV/AIDS meeting. For nearly two decades, USCA has sought “to increase the strength and diversity of th...