Investigation by LEADERSHIP yesterday revealed that the suicide bomber who devastated the ThisDay office in Abuja came under the pretext of placing an advert. The bomber, who came in a Isuzu Jeep, eyewitnesses said, first approached the front gate of t...
Survivors of yesterday bomb explosions that killed five and injured 20 people in Kaduna metropolis told LEADERSHIP how they tried in vain to prevent the bomber from carrying out his deadly mission on a three-storey building along Kontagora ...
Yesterday’s bombing of THISDAY Newspapers’ head office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the first such attack on a Nigerian media house in recent times, amplifies the question again: should bombs, bullets and bloodshed define the na...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has commiserated with the management of ThisDay and Sun Newspapers whose offices were rocked by bomb blasts yesterday. A press release signed by the special adviser on Media and Public ...
Less than two hours after the explosion that rocked the offices of Thisday, the Sun and the Moment newspapers, another improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to be bomb exploded along Nnamdi Azikiwe expressway near the second Kaduna Bridge, injuri...
About 13 victims who suffered varying degrees of injury are receiving treatment at the Wuse General Hospital and National Hospital, both in Abuja. When LEADERSHIP visited the National Hospital, sources confirmed that three persons were brought in dead ...
The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has condemned in strong terms the bomb attacks on ThisDay and Sun Offices in Abuja and Kaduna, describing the attacks as a grievous affront on the Nigerian people. He also urged Nigerians to unite in ...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, has condemned in the attacks on the Abuja and Kaduna offices of This Day and SUN Newspapers He noted that journalists were constitutionally empowered to embark on their professional d...
Nemesis has caught up with a member of a robbery syndicate who was shot dead in error, yesterday, by one of their members. LEADERSHIP was reliably informed that the robbery suspect was mistakenly shot dead by his colleague during a shootout with securi...
Civil Society Coalition of Nigeria has faulted the recent attack by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola even as it described it as an attempt to weaken his government before the next general election. The N...
The extremist sect, while claiming responsibility for Thursday's attacks, says more bombings are coming the way of the media. According to the Premium Times, the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, say...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has secured N30 billion funding to support seed and fertiliser companies, according to the Minister, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina. Adesina disclosed this in Abuja at the Ministerial Platform organised to mark t...
The State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday pleaded with journalists in the country not to be intimidate by the recent wave of attacks targeted at them and their organisations. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by Ms Ma...
ECOWAS has given 4.5 million dollars to Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to enable them cope with refugee and displacement crisis caused by the rebellion in the north of Mali. This is contained in a statement from the ECOWAS Commission, made available to t...
The Enugu Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service has frowned at the increasing number of inmates awaiting trial in its prisons. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Thursday, the command’s Public Relations O...