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Prof. Thomas Imobighe, Director of Studies, NIPSS in Kuru,near Jos, has advised those asking for a review of the current revenue formula to be more purposeful in their demand. Imobighe gave the advice in Asaba in an interview with the News Agency...
Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, says some 50,000 officers are to be trained on ethics, conduct and mannerism in an effort to improve the capacity of the workforce. Abubakar made the statement in Awka ...
The Chairman, House Committee on Defence, Alhaji Bashir Kazaure, says the resettlement of retired service men would help in reducing crime rate. Kazaure, speaking during an oversight visit to the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC ) in La...
Dr Osahon Enabulele, has emerged as the new president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), at an election which ended in the early hours of Saturday. The election which began late Friday night in Abuja was part of activities marking the associati...
The chairman and publisher of Leadership Newspapers Group, Sam Nda-Isaiah, turned 50 on May 1, 2012. A quality crowd of eminent Nigerians and foreigners swarmed the Executive Hall of the International Conference Centre Abuja, to honour him at a c...
April 27, 2011, is a day most Kano voters will not forget. It is a day the majority of Kano people decided to come out en mass to vote for the leader and initiator of the “Red Cap Revolution” Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as the seventh de...
Senator Mohammed Magoro, who represents Kebbi South in the Senate, heads the Senate Committee on Security and National Intelligence. In this interview with Soni Daniel and Ruth Choji, the former Internal Affairs Minister, speaks on how Nigeria can over...
Security Chiefs and other top officials yesterday rose from a crucial meeting in Abuja with a unanimous decision to expose top selfish politicians said to be supporting the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram. The decision became necessary following se...
Some aides of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, are in a messy power play with members of the National Working Committee, reports reaching LEADERSHIP WEEKEND suggests. At the centre of the alleged ...
The Niger state Government has given the sum of N822m to each of the 274 wards in the state for the execution of ward development projects, each ward is to get N3m under the arrangement. Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu who announced this at an int...
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has restricted the Lagos State Government from banning or imposing restrictions on the operations of commercial motorcyclists from any road within the state. The presiding judge, Justice Steven Adah was on F...
In the renewed effort of the Borno Police command to rid Borno state off the violent crimes and other miscreants, the Command yesterday arrested three suspected notorious armed robbers in different locations in the state, who believed to have been terr...
The Association of Resident Doctors Ahmadu Bello University Shika, Zaria have protested the brutal killing of their colleague Dr Abutu Andrew Audu by unknown gunmen. Speaking during the protest rally at the Hospital premises, the association Vice...
Amid serious traffic snarl caused by tankers on the Oshodi –Apapa expressway, the Federal Government on Friday threw its weight behind moves by the Lagos state government to dislodge tanker and articulated vehicles illegally parked in Apapa...
All judgments rising from its members who have appealed to the courts as a result of legal actions instituted by some of its members against the outcome of the party’s last congresses in some states and geopolitical zones, will only be respected ...