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The members of the Bayelsa State Security Council yesterday met for over eight hours over the rising dissent among hundreds of ex-militant youths. The concerned that they are threatening to launch a co-ordinated attack on oil installations along the cr...
For the second time, the crucial meeting between Ogun State Government and the state chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held yesterday ended in deadlock. The meeting which was held at the governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta lasted for ho...
The alleged political cold war within the ranks of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over ministerial nominees in Kaduna state yesterday took another turn, with some section of the party members rejecting the replacement of previous nominees. H...
A non-governmental organisation, Millennium Generation Foundation, yesterday announced plans to commence the implementation of projects aimed at empowering youths below the age of 26 across schools in the country. During a visit to LEADERSHIP headquart...
The finals of the basketball events in both the men and women category of the ongoing National Sports Festival would be decided today at the Ado kie Amasiemaka sports complex. To reach the finals and keep hopes alive of clinch the ultimate ...
Tragedy struck at Mogaji St. in Idumota area of Lagos Island on Tuesday night when a four-storey building collapsed, killing six people. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the six bodies were removed from the rubbles on Wednesday afternoon b...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Azazi, yesterday urged the media to rise to the challenge of complementing the efforts of security agencies in tackling the present security threats in the country. Azazi, represented by the director of ...
The House of Representatives will commence debate on the controversial issue of Islamic banking at its plenary session as soon as it concludes deliberation on its legislative agenda this week. A member of the lower chamber, Hon. Mustapha Dawaki Bala, w...
The Bauchi branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said that it would no longer accept a situation whereby people awaiting trial would continue to languish in jail.“This will no longer be acceptable to the NBA, We will engage the authori...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan yesterday bowed to the demand of the House of Representatives that he formally communicates to it the list of the 20 special advisers he had earlier sent to the Senate for approval. In a letter dated July 1, 2011, read...
Disturbed by the state of affairs within the Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP Transformation Network (PTN) and the PDP National Interest Group (PNIG) has called for the immediate resignation of the National Working Committee of the party. Speaking at ...
The senior United Nations official in Cote d’Ivoire, Ambassador YJ Choi has at the beginning of the week met with the country’s former President Laurent Gbagbo, who has been held under house arrest since April, promising him that the world ...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday admitted in evidence ballot papers used for Ovia North East local government area of Ovia Federal Constituency in Edo State in the April 9, 2011, National Assembly election. Chairma...
Hon. Niyi Jones Akinyugha represented Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency of Ondo State but lost his return bid to the seventh House of Representatives. Speaking to journalists, including RUTH CHOJI, in Abuja recently, the environmental consultant reve...
It was drama at the FCT Magistrates’ Court, Wuse Zone 2 yesterday, as a middle-aged man convicted of stealing a mobile phone begged the court for leniency to enable him take care of his aged mother, who lives with him. The accused, Gideon Diogbe ...