Last Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan summoned Governors Kashim Shetimma of Borno State and Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State to a private meeting at the presidential villa on how to tackle security challenges in their domains and the country in gener...
Founder of the crisis-torn All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie, is progressively nurturing another political party that will soon join the league of registered political parties in the country. In this interview with MIKE ...
In this chat with LEADERSHIP’s Imelda Ezie, Princess Iyabo Olajubu-Afolabi shares her experience combining business with gospel music, a musical genre she says can cleanse society of its ills. Professionally, how long have you been into music? We...
Rwanda provides Africa with the best test case. The country has become a model for reconciliation with a leadership that has focus and is prepared for sacrifices. Recently, a journalist asked a Rwandan if he expected Paul Kagame to go in 2017. The man ...
President Barack Obama has surged ahead in national and swing state polls after the Democratic convention and is raising more cash than Mitt Romney for the first time in four months. The Romney campaign reaction yesterday was to blame the liberal media...
A civil society group, National Anti-Terrorism and Peace Network (NATPW), has accused the minister of interior and supervising head of Nigeria’s internal security, of alleged involvement in weapons deals. The group claims it ha...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, has lamented that some banks hamper its investigations on fraud by refusing to tender useful details regarding customers being prosecuted for graft by the commission. ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has stated that there are an estimated 40 to 45million illiterate persons in Nigeria. UNESCO Country Representative Dr Joseph Ngu made this revelation at the Roundtable on &l...
Shuaibu Suleiman is the acting Director-General, Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA). In this chat with Ruth Yamta, he speaks about the mandate of DTCA and the volume of Nigeria’s assistance to other African countries. Can you g...
On her best behaviour but unable to dominate an opponent seven years her junior, Williams showed all her great fighting qualities to survive a ferocious comeback from Azarenka and seal victory after more than two and a quarter hours to become the oldes...
Andy Murray beat defending champion Novak Djokovic in five sets to win the US Open, becoming the first British man to win a Grand Slam tennis event in 76 years. Murray, 25, the No. 3 seed from Scotland, topped second- seeded Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, ...
Joseph Yobo, Mikel Obi and Yakubu Aiyegbeni are Nigeria’s biggest earners as they each pocket in excess of two million Euros a year. MTNFootball.com has again scooped that another top Nigerian earner in football is Spartak Moscow striker Emmanuel...
To ensure that they excel at the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012, the Lagos State hockey team has intensified its training ahead of the tournament in November. With the conclusion of a two-day championship, the Technical Director o...
Two-time World Champion, Nigel Richards of New Zealand and former world champion, Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand are among the top players expected to compete at this year’s Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics, coming up in Uy...
Jide Shiwoku, Lawrence Ojo and Funlola Oni scored a goal each to give Standard Chartered Bank the biggest win of the weekend and the best scoring side of the 2012 Nigeria Bankers Game which entered week two at the University of Lagos Sports Complex. St...