The Nigeria Football Federation on Saturday morning expressed sadness and sorrow at the death of Nigeria’s record goalscorer, Rashidi Yekini. Yekini, who scored 37 goals in 58 appearances for the Senior National Team, Super Eagles, between 1983 a...
The creation of green jobs is essential in ensuring a sustainable future, UN officials said on Friday in New York. The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials spoke at a forum with the theme ``Empowering Youth wi...
The Senate will help in providing constitutional powers to the country’s traditional rulers, Sen. Ita Enang, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, assured on Friday in Abuja. Enang gave the assurance when he played host to tradi...
The Futsal National Team has qualified for the final round of African qualifiers for this year’s 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup, following the withdrawal of Gabon from the second round fixture, which first leg would have come up in Lagos on Sunday. S...
CAF President, Issa Hayatou on Saturday sent a letter of condolence to NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, over the death of former international striker Rashidi Yekini. “It is with great sadness and sorrow that we learnt of the passing away of ...
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, says recent terrorist attacks in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen are an indication that terrorism threat was still formidable. ``Terrorist organisations continue to look for new havens, adopt new tactics and ...
Prof. Thomas Imobighe, Director of Studies, NIPSS in Kuru,near Jos, has advised those asking for a review of the current revenue formula to be more purposeful in their demand. Imobighe gave the advice in Asaba in an interview with the News Agency...
Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, says some 50,000 officers are to be trained on ethics, conduct and mannerism in an effort to improve the capacity of the workforce. Abubakar made the statement in Awka ...
The Chairman, House Committee on Defence, Alhaji Bashir Kazaure, says the resettlement of retired service men would help in reducing crime rate. Kazaure, speaking during an oversight visit to the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC ) in La...
Dr Osahon Enabulele, has emerged as the new president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), at an election which ended in the early hours of Saturday. The election which began late Friday night in Abuja was part of activities marking the associati...
The chairman and publisher of Leadership Newspapers Group, Sam Nda-Isaiah, turned 50 on May 1, 2012. A quality crowd of eminent Nigerians and foreigners swarmed the Executive Hall of the International Conference Centre Abuja, to honour him at a c...
April 27, 2011, is a day most Kano voters will not forget. It is a day the majority of Kano people decided to come out en mass to vote for the leader and initiator of the “Red Cap Revolution” Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as the seventh de...
Senator Mohammed Magoro, who represents Kebbi South in the Senate, heads the Senate Committee on Security and National Intelligence. In this interview with Soni Daniel and Ruth Choji, the former Internal Affairs Minister, speaks on how Nigeria can over...
Security Chiefs and other top officials yesterday rose from a crucial meeting in Abuja with a unanimous decision to expose top selfish politicians said to be supporting the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram. The decision became necessary following se...
Some aides of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, are in a messy power play with members of the National Working Committee, reports reaching LEADERSHIP WEEKEND suggests. At the centre of the alleged ...