As the Presidency promises to track down and prosecute all indicted oil marketers, there are reports that President Goodluck Jonathan has shunned attempts by some marketers to meet him, even as he was said to have warned his aides against dealing with ...
Piqued by the recent bomb blast at Saint Rita Catholic Church in Kaduna state which killed over fifteen people and left several others injured, the Plateau State commissioner of police Emmanuel Dipo Ayeni has called on religious leaders and...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday released seven names of casualties of the Sunday church explosion which occurred at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Ungwar yero, Malali, Kaduna. This is just as survivors of the attack continu...
A Nigerian man, Osazua Osalese, has been sentenced to prison for 20 years in the United Kingdom after he was found guilty of human trafficking. Osolase, 42, from Gravesend, Kent, was said to have carried out “juju” (witchcraft) on teenage g...
At least six persons have been feared killed and seven others seriously injured when gunmen suspected to be Fulani mercenaries stormed a local bar, popularly called Burukutu joint, at Gindin Akwati in Gashish distric...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday turned down a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the court to summon the Ijaw leader and former information minister, Chief Edwin Clark to explain why he was commenti...
The Joint Taskforce of the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, yesterday, uncovered a vast expanse of land hosting 18,000 illegal refineries at Escravos in Warri South Local Government area of Delta State. This is ...
Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba has congratulated Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Diocese, Bishop John Onaiyekan, on his elevation as a Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI. In a personally signed statement in Abuja yesterday, the Senate Leader also expressed wo...
The General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj- Gen. Garba Wahab, yesterday said that the military was closing in on politicians, who sponsor terrorism in the country. He also said the Police alone cannot handle the security challenges f...
The Anambra Police Command has arrested the Principal of St. John of God Secondary School, Awka, Mrs Phil Odenigbo, and a teacher, Mrs Njideka Imoka, over the death of a student, Chidimma Ukachukwu. The spokesman of the command, Mr Ralph Uzoigwe, annou...
Gunmen on Monday kidnapped the mother of a lawmaker, Rep. Abudu Balogun, (ACN-Ogun) in Ijebu Water Side in Ogun State. It was learnt that the lawmaker`s mother, Alhaja Obedatu Balogun, was abducted at about 9:30 p.m. at her residence in Ita...
The Vice President, Health, Safety and Communication, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Tony Attah, in this interview with ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, speaks on the rising wave of oil theft in the Niger Delta region. What is your take on the rising case...
Gunmen yesterday kidnapped the Bayelsa State chairman of the Change Advocacy Party (CAP), Mr. Deme Ikolomo, at his residence in Yenagoa, the state capital. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that Ikolomo was abducted in the early hours of yesterday by the gun...
The police in Delta have arrested six persons for allegedly vandalising an oil well head and removing the spray pump at Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state. Mr Charles Muka, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta State Pol...
A pathologist, Professor John Oladapo Obafunwa , a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial, Akolade Arowolo who allegedly killed his banker wife, Titilayo Omozoje, has said the deceased had at least 76 stab wounds on her. Prof Obafun...