A conducive environment is a major factor in achieving greater learning results and the overall academic growth of students. Learner-friendly environments, experts say should be given special consideration when establishing an institution of learning. ...
The newly elected Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Taiwo Taiwo said yesterday that Nigeria was not yet ripe for the abolition of capital punishment from its penal system. Taiwo in a chat with LEADERSHIP said that sinc...
Five people have been confirmed dead and 12 seriously injured in fresh violence in clashes between restive Muslim and Christian youths yesterday. The incident was said to have occurred at about 7p.m in Angwan Rukuba area in the northern part of Jos, Pl...
A ministerial nominee and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mustain Abaniwonda, 56, who drowned in a Lagos lagoon on Monday, has been buried. The men of Marine Police department of the Nigeria Police Force supported by divers finall...
A midwife, Mrs. Ekaette Akpan, has been brought before an Ebute-Metta Magistrates Court, Lagos State, over her involvement in the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Mrs. Akpan who prior to her arrest operated a maternity home in Agege area ...
A pastor, Wisdom Matthew, alongside one Ifeanyi Onuoha, 29, have been dragged before a Magistrates’ Court on Lagos Island on a two-count charge of abduction. The police alleged in the charge sheet No. G/23/2011 that the accused persons and others...
Relationships are not perfect. Every once in a while we quarrel with our partner over some serious or not so serious matters. You have a bad day at work and you are stressed out and she/he starts to annoy you but whatever the reasons for your quarrel, ...
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, USA. She is the third of six children in a Catholic family. Her father, Sylvio, also known as Tony, was a design engineer for Chrysler/General Dynamics. Madonna’s ...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the police to move from ‘media slanted’ crime fighting techniques, where suspects are paraded on television and on the front pages of n...
The aborted labour strike yesterday stalled the arraignment of the representative of Anambra North Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Alphonsus Igbeke, who is being prosecuted for allegedly falsifying the results of the senatorial primary elect...
Following the present security situation in Borno State that led to the closure of the University of Maiduguri, the institution is now almost like a ghost town, putting many petty traders, cafeteria operators and other service providers out of business...
A prosecution witness and Chief Inspector(CI) of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Abduraheem Jimoh, has told the trial judge of a Lagos High Court, Justice Habeeb Abiru, how former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Erastus Akingb...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha has commended the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other members of the organised labour for suspending the strike earlier planned to commence ye...
Controversy over the proposal by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the bankers’ committee to limit cumulative daily cash withdrawals and lodgements in the country from June next year continued to play out as yesterday, the House of Representa...
Former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari has charged leaders at all levels in Nigeria to intensify effort towards providing the people especially in the rural areas with the necessary amenities to ensure the overall development of the nation. The former p...