The people of Bakassi yesterday protested against their exclusion from the Cross River gubernatorial election, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. At a news conference in Calabar, the leader of Bakassi people, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, said thei...
Northern elders and political leaders have thrown their weight behind mounting calls for the restructuring of Nigeria to address the lopsidedness in the nation’s politics and economy. Many individuals and groups in the country have lately renewed...
Bako Haram operatives yesterday stormed a mosque in Sheka Quarters in Kumbotso Local Governemnt Area of Kano State and killed five persons. The attack came barely 24 hours after gunmen killed four persons in the same state on Thursday. According ...
Former speaker of Kebbi State House of Assembly, Hon. Aminu Musa Habib Jega, was yesterday sworn in as governor of the state, following the Supreme Court judgement annuling the election of Usman Saidu Dakingari in the 2011 gubernatorial election. The S...
After years of sentencing delays, a former Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) incorporated chief executive, Mr. Albert ‘Jack’ Stanley was yesterday sentenced to two and half years in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe Nigerian govern...
The EFCC on Friday dragged former Bayelsa governor, Mr Timipre Sylva to a Federal High Court in Abuja for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion public funds. The anti-graft agency in suit number FHC/ABJ/CR/23/2012 claimed that Sylva and other...
A total of 328 medical students dropped by the University of Jos have sued the institution for alleged unjust rejection. The students are contesting the decision of the university to drop their names from the list of 478 students admitted for 200...
The Police Service Commission (PSC), has approved the dismissal of Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, over his role in the escape from police custody of a Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Sokoto. A statement by the commission's Chief Information Officer...
Five persons including two policemen were killed on Tuesday when suspected armed robbers waylaid a bullion van belonging to Unity Bank along Benishiek, about 50 kilometers away from Maiduguri the Borno State capital. It was gathered that so...
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday led the bank’s management team to commiserate with Saint Theresa’s Catholic Church , Madalla, Suleja, over the Christmas Day bomb blasts that killed more than 40...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday warned ministers, aides and other political appointees against campaigning for any office in 2015, saying that anyone who contravened the directive would be eased out of his government. Speaking at the 58th Nationa...
The effect of the partial removal of petrol subsidy on consumers was recognised yesterday in official quarters. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday, in its report for the month of January 2012, said the inflation rate has risen to 12.6 pe...
A clash between rival factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos brought business and normal activities to a standstill in the Lagos Island axis of the state , leaving 15 people dead and several others severely injured. L...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has admitted it has not been able to make any headway in finding the source of financing for Boko Haram's terror activities. The spokesman of EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, who spoke to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY said he...
Three persons died at about midnight on Saturday when a petroleum truck exploded at Mile 2, near Festac Town, in Lagos. The fire which followed the explosion, injured many people and burnt 39 vehicles, including a number of commercial buses. The spokes...