Gunmen stormed two ships off the coast of Niger Delta early Saturday, killing two Nigerian navy sailors protecting the vessels and kidnapping four foreign workers before fleeing into the darkness, officials said. The attack happened about 35 nautical ...
The Emir of Fika, escaped a suicide attack on Friday, when the bomber was thwarted by local people before blowing himself up, residents said. Several people were wounded in the blast outside the main mosque after Friday prayers ended in the town ...
Twenty-four hours after former president Olusegun Obasanjo and military president General Ibrahim Babangida raised the alarm over growing insecurity in the country, gunmen yesterday attacked the Zaria residence of the vice president, Namadi Sambo, and ...
A senior diplomat with the Nigerian mission in Venezuela, Dr. Olarotimi Ajayi, has been detained by Venezuelan immigration authorities for over two weeks now over allegation of fraud. LEADERSHIP gathered that Ajayi has been detained since July 19, 2012...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned three more oil marketers indicted in the fuel subsidy probe before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. Those arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo include Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, Habila...
In a newly-published special report yesterday,Fitch Ratings (FR) said that the recent rapid credit growth in the Nigerian banking sector may give rise to weakened asset quality and higher impairment charges if left unchecked. “There was a marked ...
There were heavy explosion and sporadic gunshots last night at Janbulo area, along Bayero University Kano Road, following a failed attempt by a suicide bomber to blow up a mosque while prayers were going on. The attack resulted in the death...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Friday that it had arrested 26 suspected Boko Haram sect members during a raid in Maiduguri. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF spokesman stated this in a statement in Maiduguri. ``Following...
The Presidential Committee on Verification and Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments also yesterday asked the federal government to commence criminal investigation and prosecution of 21 oil marketing and trading companies (OMTs) it found culpable ove...
Provisions of the new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will strip the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of management of the joint ventures, minister of petroleum resources Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke has said. She stated this yesterday while ...
The presidency has distanced itself from a document being circulated purported to be the new Petroleum Industry Bill, saying the authentic bill was still undergoing finalisation stage by relevant government departments for onward transmission to the Na...
The paramount ruler of the Igala Kingdom, His Royal Majesty (HRM) Alhaji Aliyu Ocheja Obaje is dead. Aged 102, the Attah Igala’s death was announced by the state government on Monday. Born in 1920, Dr. Aliyu Obaje was the youngest person ever to ...
One of the witnesses of the overturned tanker that eventually exploded yesterday killing scores of people along the East-West Road in Rivers State, Mr. Sunday Erufe, has attributed his survival to luck. According to him, he escaped death by a whisker w...
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) has conferred the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) award on renowned human rights activist Mr. Femi Falana and 24 other lawyers. Falana was expected to have made the list some years before now, for hi...
The preliminary report on the June 3, 2012, Dana crash released by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), yesterday in Abuja, has revealed that the pilots of the ill-fated plane noted problems with the engine 17 minutes after takeoff in Abuja. The re...