On accommodation for pilgrims Adamu Adamu said: “And on other fronts, pilgrims are forced to have to pay accommodation fees in advance as part of groups registered with agents approved by the Saudi government. This is compulsory even for those wh...
It is now history in Ondo state as the people massively voted for Dr Olusegun Mimiko for a second term in office whereby he recorded a landslide victory as the first governor to achieve this feat. It is now time for the governor to play his part by giv...
Senator Abu Ibrahim (CPC, Katsina) is the Deputy Senate Minority Whip. In this interview with UCHENNA AWOM, he speaks on his indigeneship bill currently before the Senate, saying that time has come for Nigerians to be Nigerians. Why did you come up wit...
Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Nigeria, Daouda Toure has revealed that Nigeria does not have any data on poverty reduction. Speaking with journalists at a media briefing on the United Nations System in Nigeria Integrated Implement...
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, has accused the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), in Plateau State of plotting to cripple his administration with prolonged strikes over the implementation of the nat...
The President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Comrade Shehu Sani has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic programme is a sham. Shehu in a statement said that, “almost two years down the road, it’s crys...
The crisis rocking Ogun State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)took a dramatic dimension yesterday when groups in the Party suspended five members each from the opposing factions. First to fire the salvo was the Obasanjo group led by Senator D...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Muhammed Airport Command, yesterday said it arrested one passenger on an alleged money laundering offence who was in possession of $137,435 at the international wing of the Lagos airport. The passenger identified as...
A transparency group, the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, yesterday berated the Bayelsa State government over its alleged poor and insensitive allocation of state resources in the 2012 budget passed by the State House of Assemb...
A rights group, International Society For Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety has stated that illicit small arms circulating in the country is responsible for the high rate of crime. The group in a press release made available to LEADERSH...
All is not well with Senior Pastor of the God’s Victory Mission in Mbaitoli, Imo State, Pastor John Ohih as LEADERSHIP gathered that he allegedly impregnated the wife of a member of his church. A reliable source who disclosed this to LEADERSHIP i...
Children who regularly drink milk becomes physically fitter in old age, according to new research. It found that elderly people who consumed the highest amounts of milk and dairy foods in childhood were able to walk faster and were much less likely to ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has implored the United Nations to approach the war against terrorists strongly and follow them with the zeal of a fighter who intends to crush the world’s common enemies. Speaking at a cocktail organised in honour of ...
Men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday survived another bomb explosion which was planted and targeted at one of their patrol vehicles along a major road linking Gwange/London Ciki wards of Maiduguri metropolis. Our correspondent gathered that the ...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said that there was no rift between the House and the Presidency. This was just as he said that members of the lower legislative chamber remained committed to the welfare of Nigeria...