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Commander of the 33 Artillery brigade in Bauchi, Brigadier-General Muraina Raji, who was standing trial before a special millitary court at the 3 Armoured Division, Jos, for his alleged role in the escape of two high profile Boko Haram suspects, has be...
Despite the twin-threats by the dreaded Islamic sect known as Boko Haram and MEND, coupled with early down pour of rain in Lagos, the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola and teeming Lagosians yesterday converged on the Police College located ...
In spite of the Adamawa State government’s threat to adopt the no-work-no-pay approach for its striking workers, Governor Murtala Nyako has ordered the payment of their September salary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workers h...
A coalition of non-governmental organisations on Saturday, sent a request to President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint former governor of Zamfara State, Sen. Ahmed Sani Yerima as a special envoy and presidential adviser on religious harmony in the norther...
A coalition of ethnic and civil societies in the Niger Delta, the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to release the white paper on the Niger Delta. The News Agency o...
The Sokoto State Government has spent more than N8.8 billion on the first phase of its university in Sokoto, the Special Adviser on Higher Education, Prof. Gajam Ardo, has said. Ardo told a Press Conference in Sokoto yesterday that the structures...
A group, the Bonny Graduates Forum (BGF), the umbrella body of all graduates from Bonny local government area of Rivers State, has called for the unconditional and immediate release of the secretary and legal adviser of the Rivers State Traffic Managem...
Unidentified gunmen,have raided and abducted a worker aboard a supply vessel to the ExxonMobil oil platform, off Akwa Ibom coastline. One other person was injured in the process. The Management of Mobil Producing Nigeria, the local un...
M aiduguri, the Borno state capital yesterday, recorded another killing as some unidentified gunmen shot and killed a butcher in broad day light at the popular Baga road market while other Nigerians were marking the country’s 51st independence an...
Allegations of fraud and internal wranglings to unseat the acting general manager of the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) have set the station in crisis. Management staffers of the station are said to be involved in as show down with one another...
Some kinds of questions naturally provoke God to action. Such questions might intimidate the fearful but they embolden the faithful whose hearts are full of faith in their God. “But if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst...
Hon. Jim Adun, a retired Group Captain of the Air force, represents Eger Ikpoba Okha Federal Constituency of Edo State. In this restricted interview with journalists, including LEADERSHIP’S RUTH CHOJI, in Abuja, he sheds light on the role of the ...
A part of Mabushi community in the Mabushi Cadastral zone of the Federal Capital Territory, has for much of the past four weeks, remained without power from the national source, no thanks to some hoodlums who carted away some PHCN installed cable...
The War Against Poverty (WAP) initiated by the former director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu I. Tsiga, has served as a platform for training serving youth corps members on entrepreneurship skills, thereb...
Remarks by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader, Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) at the conferment of “Person of the Year” award by Leadership Newspapers Group at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Thursday, September 29, 2011 I am hono...