Armed soldiers believed to be men of the 1 Mechanized Division, Nigerian Army, have stormed the popular Barnawa Shopping Complex area of Kaduna metropolis and whisked away 33 persons suspected to be Boko Haram members. Thirteen of those seized were Nig...
Despite the claim by the registrar of the National Examination Council, NECO, Professor Promise Okpalla, that there was a slight improvement in the performance of students who took part in the external senior secondary examination of Nov/Dec 2011, the ...
As Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu clocks 60 years of age today, he speaks on a range of national issues. In this interview with our editors – Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Juwe Oluwafemi and Auwal S. Mu’Azu, the former senator, two-time governor of Lagos S...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) said on Tuesday that it has shot a suspected area commander of the Boko Haram sect after a gun battle in Maiduguri. Lt-Col. Sagir Musa, the JTF Spokesman made the announcement in a statement in Maiduguri. “Following a t...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Dr Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, said in Sokoto on Monday that lack of education was the root cause of violence in the country. Abubakar spoke while receiving the President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue in ...
Chief Audu Ogbeh, one time presidential adviser on Agriculture and former Minister of Communications was among a high powered team that followed Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State to Egypt and Thailand during which agreements were reached on agro-...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Sokoto State, has deployed personnel to all the border areas in the state to stop the smuggling of arms into the country. The Commandant, Alhaji Aminu Kofor-Soro told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
Governor of Anambra State and Chairman of South-East Governors’ Forum, Mr Peter Obi, at the weekend, disagreed with the Federal Government over its plan to complete the permanent site of Enugu International Trade Fair through Public Private Secto...
Former head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has described the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governor of Lagos State, A...
Obvious cracks in the walls of the Boko Haram sect led to the arrest of one of the leaders of a faction of the group, Abu Mohammed, and his eventual death from gunshot injuries, LEADERSHIP can authoritatively reveal. Sources close to the security agenc...
The mother of late deputy inspector-general of police Haruna John, Madam Silani John, was yesterday confirmed dead after suffering a heart attack following the sudden death of her son in a helicopter crash. Madam Haruna was confirmed dead at a Jalingo ...
A chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, has declared that unless the north gets its act together and confront the problems of division among its leaders, the 2015 presiden...
Plans by the federal government to add an additional 10,000MW of electricity to the national grid by 2014 through the implementation of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) might be fruitless if nothing is done now to aggressively tackle gas ...
Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr Pius Odubu has said that the people of the state will defend their votes in the forthcoming July 14th governorship election even as he warned that the A C N are battle ready to confront election riggers who are plott...
Igbos in Diaspora under the aegis of World Igbo Congress (WIC) have announced plans to immortalize late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who was committed to mother earth early this month. WIC made the disclosure weekend when members of its ...