Minister of State for Works, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda yesterday berated Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole over the governor’s claim that Adokere-Ukoni-Aimedokhian,Awo, Ugboha road contract awarded by the federal government in Uro...
No fewer than 15 murder suspects, eight armed robbery suspects and six persons awaiting trial for stealing were among those who regained their freedom when the Chief Judge of Cross River State Justice Dorothy Iyamba, visited the Afokang Fed...
Members of the Anyene family comprising of Barr Onyeka Anyene, his wife Maimuna Anyene and their four children who were involved in the ill fated Dana air crash in Lagos will be buried on July, 13, LEADERSHIP can authoritatively report. A source ...
Ahead of World Refugee Day, the United Nations refugee agency has revealed that a record 800,000 people were forced to flee across borders last year, more than at any time since 2000. The new refugees are part of a total of 4.3 million people who...
he Police Authorities of South Africa are presently holding a Nigerian, Mr. Aloyouise Dumbiri who hails from Agbor in Delta State for drug related offences.The suspect who was arrested at his Maitland home in Cape Town last Friday will also be standing...
The House of Representatives was in the news all through last week, having found itself in yet another bribery scandal, this time involving oil marketer, Mr Femi Otedola and the man who was in the news in the last few months for successfully probing th...
Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye mni, a pioneer staff and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Triumph Publishing Company and the former Secretary General and National President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, is currently the Director of Public Affairs and Strate...
Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger) is the Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Character. In this interview with UCHENNA AWOM he laments the lopsidedness in the staff structure of some federal institutions and said Nigerians can enforce their righ...
For the past one year, the Senatorial slot of Anambra North has been vacant. Chibuzo Ukaibe, in this report, looks at the legal scuffle that has created this awkward situation. The Anambra North Senatorial seat has been vacant, since the commencement o...
A former aspirant for the post of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national Youth leader and Initiator/National Coordinator of Youth-Rural Empowerment and Advocacy Project (YouthREAP), Hon. Solomon Bamola Gowin, in this interview with John Oba, arg...
The need and importance of a national Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databank for a rapidly growing nation like Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. DNA databank has been proven to be very useful in almost all spheres of life but particularly useful in the h...
The National Software Policy Committee (NSPC) has presented the National Software Policy (NSP) for Nigeria to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). During the formal presentation in Abuja, the Chairman of the committee, Prof. ...
Once again, the House of Representatives are in the storm of another bribery scandal, coming two months after the suspension of the Committee on Capital Markets, led by Herman Hembe. In the latest scandal, the Chairman of the ad-hoc committee on Fuel S...
The Executive director, Media Rights Agenda, MRA Mr. Edetaen Ojo has called for the involvement of major stakeholders across different sectors of the society in the full implementation of the Freedom of Information FOI Act. Speaking at the opening of a...
Shock and disbelief were yesterday written boldly on the faces residents of Onitsha as Governor Peter Obi in the early hours of the morning stormed the town to flag off the demolition of illegal structures and personally supervised it along the Upper I...