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Following the incessant bomb blasts and the recent kidnapping of the father of one of Super Eagles players Mikel Obi, security operatives are not taking chances with the safety of the players in the wake of the recent United Nations building bomb blast...
The acclaimed traditional durbar procession staged during the biennial sallah celebrations in Kano will not hold this year due to the uncertain health condition of the Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero. Kano State government announced yesterday that the revered ...
An advocacy group, Access to Justice (AJ) has called on the acting in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher to review the decision taken to suspend Justice Ayo Salami as President, Court of Appeal (PCA). In a letter dated August 29, ...
As calm returns to Jos after Monday’s violence that claimed 10 lives, security has been beefed up in and around the city as Muslims celebrate Eid-el Fitr. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who went round some parts of the city yeste...
Plateau State Council of the Nigerian Union of journalists, NUJ, said that its attention has been drawn to the maltreatment of one of its members, Mallam Bayo Alabira of the People’s Daily Newspapers by men of the Special Task Force (STF) deploye...
The National headquarters of the Jama’atul Izalatul Bid’ah Wa Ikamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) yesterday said that it was still compiling list of casualties of the attack on its members who went to Rukuba Road Eid ground to observe the Eid –e...
The United Nations under-secretary for security, Gregory Starr, has laid the blame of Friday’s attack on the UN House on the lapses in the nation’s security, saying that the security of UN agencies and organisations around the world reposes...
Muslims in the country yesterday marked this year’s Eid-el-Fitr amidst tight security. Fierce-looking soldiers were stationed at strategic areas while mobile vans conveying armed mobile policemen patrolled major cities of the country, particularl...
This year’s Eid-El-Fitri celebration in Ondo State turned awry as no fewer than 34 persons died in a multiple auto accident along Akure-Owo Expressway late Monday. LEADERDHIP also gathered that 16 of the victims were roasted alive in the crash wh...
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, who fled to Algeria with other family members on Monday, has given birth to a daughter, an Algerian government official announced yesterday. “Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl....
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has called on security agencies to release members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly known as Boko Haram, and other members of religious groups who are currently in detention. The governor made the call in...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), yesterday further dropped by 2.2 per cent after some blue-chip stocks suffered huge loss in the prices of their shares.At the close of trading in the day, the twin market indicators, the market capital...
The leadership of Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and AIICO Insurance Plc have declared that the Employees’ Compensation Act(ECA) was a comprehe...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday defied the rains and the security concerns in the city as they thronged to recreation centres across the city to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitr feast.The large turn-out witnessed at the recreation c...
The Chief Imam of Dobi mosque, Alhaji Adamu Baba, has called for unity among Nigerians irrespective of tribe and religion to enhance peaceful co-existence.Baba who made the call in his sallah sermon at Dobi, near Gwagwalada, also called for prayers for...