Senator Ita Enang represents Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. In this interview with journalists, including LEADERSHIP’s Chibuzo Ukaibe, he chips in on the debate over the creation of state police, airs his concerns about Bayelsa State&r...
Four persons have been confirmed dead and hundreds of houses destroyed in the devastating floods that swept through four local government areas of Katsina State. LEADERSHIP gathered yesterday that three persons died in the flood disaster that occurred ...
The Imo State government recently inaugurated the board of Ikemba Ojukwu Centre in honour of the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu. The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chinedu Offor, in this interview with STANLEY UZOARU, explains the reasons b...
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Mni, GCFR (also known as IBB), is a thoroughbred Nigerian; once a career military man who rose to become the first military President of Nigeria (those before him were Heads of State); a tactical politician, who rece...
Bringing up a child in most societies is considered the exclusive duty of the mother. But the role of a father is as important as a mother’s in a child’s development. Numerous studies have revealed that children with involved fathers are at...
The federal government and Boko-Haram are engaged in talks on how to bring the group’s insurgency to an end. This is even as the sect is suspected to have different factions, the Presidency said. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publ...
As the federal government grapples with the spate of insecurity in the country, Former governor of Lagos State and Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has declared that Nigeria is fast becoming one of the most dangerous p...
Former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, and first Jigawa State Governor, Major General Olayinka Sule (rtd) were among the eminent Nigerians who graced the grand occa...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the ongoing debate for and against a State Police as uncalled for, unhelpful and diversionary. The NLC’s Vice President, Comrade Issa Aremu, who stated this while briefing Journalists in Kaduna said...
The United Nations Agencies and Organisations in Nigeria, yesterday, remembered all the 23 persons (13 UN staff and 10 non-UN staff) who lost their lives as a result of the unfortunate bombing of the UN House in Abuja on Friday, August 26, 2011. In a s...
A sixteen-year-old girl who was lured to a maternity home in Okwue area of Asaba along-side other girls, has narrated how they were promised N50,000 each to make babies for the operators of the home. She made the revelation after operatives of Asaba Vi...
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) would today commence its annual general conference with not less than 15, 000 lawyers expected to be in attendance. In a press statement signed by NBA Information Officer, Nneoma Anieto, she said that President Goodluc...
The Pharaohs of Egypt are looking forward to a friendly with Nigeria’s Super Eagles on September 11. The Pharaohs assistant coach, Diaa El-Sayed was quoted by reports in Egypt confirming the friendly with Nigeria. “Egypt will play two frien...
Chairman House of Representative committee on sport, Hon Geoffrey Aliyu Gaiya has called on the sports minister Bolaji Abdullahi not to put Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Keshi under pressure as he rebuilds the national team. He decried statement cr...
Starting from today in Abuja, twenty six Super Eagles players will battle to impress Coach Stephen Keshi and his crew for shirts for the Nations Cup qualifier against the Lone Star of Liberia. The Eagles crew is expected at the end of the week to name ...