Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Saturday met with Christian and Muslim leaders to discuss the protracted crisis in the state. Yakowa met with the religious leaders shortly after a similar meeting with political stakeholders. The govern...
On March 28, 2012 in faraway Seoul, the South Korean capital, President Goodluck Jonathan boasted to the international community that his administration would end the menace being posed to the nation by the vicious Boko Haram sect by June this year. Th...
Assakio, the headquarters of Lafia East Development Area in Lafia Local Government of Nasarawa was turned into a theatre of war with no fewer than 30 killed following a clash over disagreement over land rent. Although the conflict has been contained by...
The Gombe State commissioner for education, Hajiya Aishatu Mohammed Bose Ahmed, is determined to overhaul the education sector in the state. In this interview with HUSSAINI JIRGI, Hajiya Ahmed, who also served in the same ministry during the tenure of ...
The FCT administration under the leadership of Senator Bala Muhammed in June, 2010, gave an order that prostitutes should stay off the streets of Abuja or be made to face the full wrath of law. As a result, a task force was inaugurated to help enforce ...
Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday refuted report making the rounds that he was spearheading an imposition of a state-of-emergency in Kaduana State in a bid to unfold his presidential ambition into a pleasant reality in 2015. The report in sections...
The crisis rocking the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) opened another ugly chapter recently following a declaration by Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State that the party was dead, provoking a combative fight-back by Governor Peter Obi of Anamb...
The Kano Command of the Nigeria Police has arrested four persons for allegedly trying to plant a time bomb at Waje Friday mosque in Fagge local government area of Kano. It was gathered that the incident which resulted in the arrest of the suspects had ...
The Estu Nupe, Alahji Yahaya Abubakar, has stated that the embezzlement of pensioners’ money for whatever reason is an unfortunate and disheartening incident in Nigeria, and must be condemned in totality. The royal father, who spoke at the presen...
Escalating violence that has claimed many lives and property in parts of the north yesterday forced President Goodluck Jonathan to kick out the national security adviser, General Andrew Azazi, and the minister of defence, Alhaji Haliru Mohammed Bello. ...
A bomb-laden car yesterday exploded opposite a popular night club, Kryxtal Lounge in Wuse 2, Abuja. Although details of the blast were still sketchy as at press time, LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that at about 11pm yesterday, a car parked be...
Husband to the late principal of the Federal Government College, Bwari, Abuja, Marie Okwulehie, a victim of the ill-fated Dana aircraft, Mr. Paul Okwulehie, yesterday made a passionate plea to the federal government not to allow the report of the Dana ...
Indications emerged yesterday that, with the listing of three Boko Haram kingpins as ‘‘global terrorists’’, the United States can deploy its drones to take out the suspected terrorists if there is any threat to American interest...
Once more, the peaceful nature of Kaduna State had again been threatened following violent protests after two churches in Kaduna and another in Zaria were bombed last Sunday, throwing the whole state into turmoil and confusion. Almost every nook and cr...
As insecurity reigns supreme in most parts of Northern Nigeria, a former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has urged the northern political elite to look beyond President Goodluck Jonathan for solution to the insecurity ...