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Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf of an Abuja High Court will on Aug. 23, hear a motion stopping FCT Minister Bala Mohammed from going ahead with the planned demolition of Mpape village. A resident, Mr Friday Chimezie, filed a suit against the minister and t...
An armed robber, who wanted to pull out his gun probably to shoot policemen who were on routine patrol in Enugu State narrowly escaped death and blew off his private parts with his own gun. A statement from the Police Public Relations Officer in the&nb...
Tension is high in Enugu following the abduction of the Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of science and Technology(ESUT), Professor Cyprian Onyeji. LEADERSHIP gathered that the academic was allegedly ambushed and kidnapped at the entrance ...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has embarked on the sensitisation of people in the South South Zone on solid waste management as part of efforts to reduce flooding . Mr Umesi Emenike, the Coordinator of the agency in the zone...
Prof John Idoko, Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) said in Abuja on Monday that 432,000 People Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria (PLWHA) are no antiretroviral drugs. Idoko told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that by 2...
The Rivers State Police Command said it was working hard to arrest those behind the murder of three young men in Elechi Beach Area of Port Harcourt city. Mr Ben Ugwuegbulam, the spokesman of the command, made this known in Port Harcourt on Monday ...
A team from the National Universities Commission (NUC) has commenced a forensic audit of the Tansian University at Umunya, near Awka in Anambra. The audit follows the restoration of the operational licence of the institution on Aug. 2, by the...
The Ebonyi chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has criticised the State Government for withdrawing the payment Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) describing the action as `unlawful. ’ The State Government stopped payment of the TSS ...
A 19-year-old suspect, Ahmadu Adama, standing trial for culpable homicide, on Monday collapsed at the Gombe State High Court, while giving evidence before the court. Adama was in court for allegedly stabbing one Shuaibu Umar with a...
Striking members of the Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Monday shut the offices of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in Umuahia. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited the PHCN premises at No...
Recently, the Northern Leaders gathered in Houston, Texas, United States of America for the 2012 international convention of the Zumunta, a Northern peoples’ group, where they discussed the problems that Nigeria faces as a result of insecurity. A...
Labour movements in Nasarawa State have issued a one week ultimatum to the state government to reverse the new tax system, which it recently introduced in the state or face industrial action. In a statement jointly signed by the state NLC Ch...
In a dual move to clamp down on non-performance in the local government areas of Bayelsa state and enact a revenge of sorts on those who displayed their disloyalty to the administration of the State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson, through their support ...
The Senate has set the stage for a possible restructuring of the FCT administration. UCHENNA AWOM writes that two bills that would drive the effort scaled the crucial second reading. What are the issues? What is wrong with the present structure of the ...
Ahead of the scheduled October 20 gubernatorial poll in Ondo State, the real contenders and pretenders’ line-up to unhorse Governor Olusegun Mimiko who is not letting the grass grow under his feet as he marshals his battle-plan. In this analysis,...