Nigeria international, Kalu Uche has laid down the marker and announced his presence in Turkey’s Super Lig with a brilliant hattrick on match day three of the competition. The former RCD Espanyol man hogged the headlines for the right reasons as ...
Nigeria’s Falconets have shifted focus on dead-ball kicks and penalties shootout in today’s semifinal clash against USA at the Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan. The coach Edwin Okon led crew appears not to be taking chances si...
Skye Bank began their defense of the Bankers Games football title on a flying start with a 1-0 defeat of a resilient Stanbic-IBTC on the opening day of the 2012 Nigeria Bankers Games (NBG). The official opening match came on the heels of a novelty All-...
Sharapova won a nail-biter 6-1 4-6 6-4 against her fellow Russian to set up a clash with Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. France’s 11th seed Bartoli upset fifth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 1-6 6-2 6-0. Petrova led 2-0 in the third set when rain halted ...
Health workers and security personnel at the Kubwa General Hospital yesterday downed tools, refusing to attend to patients in protest against the shoddy treatment meted out on them by some people. As a result of the protest, LEADERSHIP gathered that pa...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed say for development to come to the city, collective sacrifices, including demolition of illegal structures must be made by the administration and the residents. Mohammed stated this...
The General Superintendent, Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi will today storm Abuja to release miracles on the residents as he visits the capital city. Kumuyi told LEADERSHIP in a telephone interview that God was out to shower...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Monday condoled with the government and people of Adamawa over the recent flood that claimed some lives and property worth millions of naira in the state. Dankwambo delivered the condolence when G...
Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia has threatened to pull down 1,800 buildings allegedly built on sewer lanes in Aba, the economic hub of the state. Orji issued the threat on Monday in Umuahia, while briefing newsmen on the plans by his administration to trans...
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno said on Monday that the state would partner with German firms to set up power plants to address the energy challenges in the state. He made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Berlin, G...
Two employees were on Monday arraigned in Lagos over the alleged theft of three truck-loads of the company's products, Gino tin tomatoes and Bama Mayonnaise, valued at N31 million. Akeem Akinbola (31), of No. 61c, Bale Aiyetoro St., Ajegu...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, said on Monday in Abuja that discussions were under way to make Nigeria’s peacekeeping contribution better and more coordinated. Petinirin said this at the opening of the 3rd ECOWAS ...
Local government elections in Abia will hold in January 2013, baring unforeseen circumstances, Gov. Theodore Orji, has said. The governor said this on Monday in Umuahia while briefing newsmen on some of the landmark achievements recorded by his adminis...
An aviation group-- Civil Aviation Round Table-- has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to nullify the proceedings of the ongoing coroner's inquest into the June 3 Dana Air plane crash. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 153 passengers ...
MICHAEL Jackson was a booze-fuelled “basket case” in the weeks before he died, shock new documents reveal. They show Jacko didn’t rehearse, needed pyschiatric treatment and refused to sing at practices before his attempted come...