The Nigeria Police, the Army, the State Security Service and other security agencies will come under legislative scrutiny over their individual efforts or negligence in averting recent cases of terror in the country when the House of Representatives re...
Nigeria has witnessed a steady decline in the fortune of the education sector, going from the era of military rule to the present democratic dispensation which took off in 1999. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY investigation can reveal that the budget pattern steadil...
Aissatou Aisha Pindar, the 10- year- old daughter of Nigeria’s former ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Ambassador Saidu Pindar, who died in an auto crash along the Kaduna- Zaria road last week Wednesday, expects life to be tough for her witho...
Lagos residents, especially those residing in the lowland areas, and the authorities in the state should brace up for another spate of flooding before the end of this year’s rainy season. This warning is coming on the heels of the flooding of mos...
Nigerian First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, other First Ladies, ministers and development experts will gather in New York this week to share their countries’ successes and challenges in the field of maternal and reproductive health commodity sec...
Elder statesman and northern elder, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure the implementation of his economic transformation agenda.The veteran politician, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday that he...
The driver of the deputy speaker of Borno State House of Assembly Honorable Danlami Gamandi and six others were killed, while eight others were injured in Biu local government Borno State last Friday night in a clash between some youths and...
The United Nations under-secretary for security, Gregory Starr, has laid the blame of Friday’s attack on the UN House on the lapses in the nation’s security, saying that the security of UN agencies and organisations around the world reposes...
Muslims in the country yesterday marked this year’s Eid-el-Fitr amidst tight security. Fierce-looking soldiers were stationed at strategic areas while mobile vans conveying armed mobile policemen patrolled major cities of the country, particularl...
This year’s Eid-El-Fitri celebration in Ondo State turned awry as no fewer than 34 persons died in a multiple auto accident along Akure-Owo Expressway late Monday. LEADERDHIP also gathered that 16 of the victims were roasted alive in the crash wh...
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, who fled to Algeria with other family members on Monday, has given birth to a daughter, an Algerian government official announced yesterday. “Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl....
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has called on security agencies to release members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly known as Boko Haram, and other members of religious groups who are currently in detention. The governor made the call in...
Peace took flight from Jos, the capital of Plateau State, again yesterday. A clash between people claiming to be Muslims and Christians left no fewer than 22 people dead and about 50 others injured.The clash took place around Jakwano, Maternity Gada Bi...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has been posting conflicting results of the 2011 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) it just released, LEADERSHIP investigations reveal.Candidates are in a state of confusion as they have ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, urged the acting chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, to do all he can to restore the confidence of Nigerians in the judiciary, while promising that his administration would be committed to th...