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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday rescinded his earlier order which stopped the continuation of the coroner’s inquest into the June 3, 2012 crash of an MD83 Dana Air plane in Lagos. Justice Abang, in a ruling, also st...
Men of the Rivers State Police Command yesterday foiled a robbery attack, killing one suspected robber during the exchange of fire with the gang in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND learnt that the gang of robbers had gone to ...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), said yessterday that the Nigerian Army is reviewing the retirement age of soldiers from 60 years to 70 years. He stated this during the commissioning of the Nigerian Army Transformation and Innovation Centre, yeste...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arrested a bulk currency smuggler, Abubakar Tijani Sheriff, for allegedly attempting to smuggle $7million out of the country. Sheriff (24) was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airpo...
The Owelle of Onitsha and son of Nigeria’s First President, Chief Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe, has called for unity and patriotism among Nigerians as the nation marks her 52nd Independence anniversary. Azikiwe made the call at his Inosi Onira home,...
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina State has lent his voice to the series of condemnation that have trailed the recent decision of the Saudi Arabian authority to deport some Nigerian female pilgrims, describing the situation as unfortu...
The Zamfara Government on Friday received 137 female pilgrims who were deported from Saudi Arabia. The deportees, who arrived at the state capital Gusau, were received by the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Wakkala, at the Presidential Lodge. Addressin...
Plans are underway by the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) to carry on the distribution of the popular KeKe NAPEP tricycles to Nigerians as part of the current federal government administration’s effort to stem poverty nationwide. S...
Atlas Corps International Advocacy Fellow with Population Action International in Washington Dc, Esther Agbarakwe, has said that they are on their partnership with the National Emergency management Agency (NEMA) in tackling the ravaging flooding crisis...
The member representing Etsako West 1 state constituency of the Edo State Assembly, Hon RazakMomoh, was on Thursday night shot and seriously wounded by unknown gunmen, who attacked him along the busy Akenzua street in Benin City. The incident, which to...
Governor AbiolaAjimobi of Oyo State has charged this year’s pilgrims to Mecca from the state to be good ambassadors of Oyo State. The governor, while addressing the pilgrims at the Hajj Camp, Olodo in Ibadan on Friday before their departure to th...
Following the recent developments on the non-admittance and eventual deportation of some Nigerian female pilgrims to the Holy land in Mecca and Medina, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga A. Ashiru, today 28th September 2012, in New Y...
The National Publicity Secretary, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Bernard Akoma, on Friday called on the Federal Government to evolve a comprehensive cultural policy to foster development. Akoma, who made the call in an interview wi...
The alleged plotter of the October 1st, 2010 bombings that claimed several lives and properties in Abuja, Mr. Henry Okah, will be appearing before a South Africa's court on Monday next week. This appearance makes it two years that the sad an...
More than 20 million South Africans have come forth to be screened and tested for various diseases, including HIV, since President Jacob Zuma launched the HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign in 2010. The HCT campaign has been one of government&...