Chief Okon Akpanowong, a community leader in Ibeno in Akwa Ibom, has criticised the suspension of the clean-up of Atlantic coastline contaminated by an oil spill on Aug.13. The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) had ordered Mobi...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked claims that the omission of the word ``fraud’’ in Nigeria’s 2011 Anti-money Laundering Act was deliberate. The commission’s secretary Emmanuel Akomaye, told the Ne...
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s Hajj. The flights were suspended on Thursday following the wave of deportation of female pilgrims by the Saudi au...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked claims that it has not made meaningful progress, stressing that the courts have the final say in convictions in cases of corruption. EFCC’s Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Akomaye, made the...
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) on Sunday arrested 27 traders for hawking outside the Wuse market premises in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Alhaji Isa Shuaibu, the Director of the Board, said during the operation, that hawking as...
Halimatu Ayinde scored her second brace of Azerbaijan 2012 as Nigeria U-17 women's team finished top of Group A following a 3-0 victory over Colombia, a result that sends the South Americans home from the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Inadequate funding is the greatest challenge facing the Code of Conduct Tribunal in its effort towards fighting corruption in the country to a standstill. In this interview, chairman of the tribunal, Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar told our senior reporter...
Life is full of contradictions. While some people find it rosy, others suffer misery at every turn. In all, as mortals, who are we to raise questions? It is indeed every man to his or her fate. For 35- year-old Mrs. Grace Anigor, a widow from Obegu Izz...
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday raised the alarm over what he described as lack of integrity and associated problems of the transmission and distribution lines to evacuate generated electricity power in the country. The vice president, who spoke ...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday rescinded his earlier order which stopped the continuation of the coroner’s inquest into the June 3, 2012 crash of an MD83 Dana Air plane in Lagos. Justice Abang, in a ruling, also st...
Men of the Rivers State Police Command yesterday foiled a robbery attack, killing one suspected robber during the exchange of fire with the gang in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND learnt that the gang of robbers had gone to ...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), said yessterday that the Nigerian Army is reviewing the retirement age of soldiers from 60 years to 70 years. He stated this during the commissioning of the Nigerian Army Transformation and Innovation Centre, yeste...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arrested a bulk currency smuggler, Abubakar Tijani Sheriff, for allegedly attempting to smuggle $7million out of the country. Sheriff (24) was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airpo...
The Owelle of Onitsha and son of Nigeria’s First President, Chief Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe, has called for unity and patriotism among Nigerians as the nation marks her 52nd Independence anniversary. Azikiwe made the call at his Inosi Onira home,...
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina State has lent his voice to the series of condemnation that have trailed the recent decision of the Saudi Arabian authority to deport some Nigerian female pilgrims, describing the situation as unfortu...