The chief of defence staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, has said that the armed forces and the Joint Task Force (JTF) will not enter into dialogue with the Boko Haram, saying that the soldiers are purely in Maiduguri, Borno State to restor...
One of the lawyers, indicted by the committee setup by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to investigate the crisis in the judiciary Yahaya Mahmood has said that he was not given fair hearing on the grounds that he was neither summoned nor asked to mak...
Apparently moved by reactions to their perceived approval of Islamic banking and cash withdrawal limit policies as proposed by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, members of the House of Representatives have denied that t...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hinted that he would send a Constitution Amendment Bill to the National Assembly to make provision for a single tenure for the president and governors of the 36 states of the federation. But the bill, if passed int...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to investigate the ``disappearance’’ of the late Alhaji Umaru Yar`Adua when he was the sitting president. Soyinka made the call in Lagos at a Town Hall mee...
A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, on Thursday, directed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha who was the former Chief Security Officer to the late of Head of State, General Sani Abacha and Alhaji Lateef Sofolahan to open their defence in their ongoing tr...
The Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga has directed that all corps members serving in Borno state be deployed immediately due to the security situation in the state. The Director General stated ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday fixed July 19 to take the plea of five police officers accused of unlawfully killing former leader of the Boko Haram sect, late Mohammed Yusuf. Those charged to undergo the trial are J.B. Abang, Akeera, and Ma...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has promised to hand over its report on how to overcome Boko Haram and other security challenges facing the country soon. The ACF’s report was said to have been put in place by retired security chiefs in the Nor...
The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in consonance with the presidency has opted to hold a special convention in November this year to elect new national officers for the party. The tenure of the present National Working Co...
Prominent lawyers have called for an amendment of the Code of Conduct Act to include a provision that will compel public officers who declared their assets to make it available for public scrutiny. The lawyers: Prof Taiwo Osipitan (SAN), Mrs. Funk...
Several weeks after LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s investigations revealed that governors in the North were doing nothing to avert the disaster floods may bring this rainy season, following repeated flooding alaerts by the meteorological department of the N...
The Federal Government on Friday in Abuja ordered the re-opening of the Kaduna Polytechnic and directed the former rector, Alhaji Danjuma Isa, to go on compulsory leave.Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufai, who gave the directive while addressing new...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday swore in the second set of ministerial nominees earlier scrutinised and cleared by the National Assembly. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja where he restate...
A six-year-old boy was late Wednesday pulled out of the collapsed building at Idumota area of Lagos State alive more than 24 hours after the accident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the boy whose identity could not be immediately ascert...