The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it would not allow itself to be used as a clearing house for moving slush funds by any political party.Mr Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman made this known in Abuja ...
Whenever there is an air disaster, there are many unanswered questions as to why it happened. The first thing however, that comes to mind after a plane crash is the ‘black box’ which is expected to reveal what went wrong. RALIAT...
The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Eugene Juwah, has been addressing the controversy the SIM card registration exercise is generating. In this interview with CHRISTIAN OCHIAMA, ...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that he was disturbed when he received the news of the multiple bomb explosions that rocked churches in Kaduna and Zaria while he was in a church service. When invited to give his remarks at a special service ...
The acting inspector general of police Mohammed Abubakar, who confirmed the incident in a statement signed by the deputy force public relations officer, CSP Frank Mba, has warned perpetrators of the killings to desist forthwith, saying the police...
Attempts to involve the Speaker of the House of Representatives, AminuWaziriTambuwal, in the $620,000 bribery allegation against the former chairman of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the Management of Fuel Subsidy, Ho...
As Reps whine and fret over the bribery scandal rocking its chambers, the Senate wait in silence, but the consensus is that the Senate President, David Mark has successfully cleared the Senate of such land mines. UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis traces hi...
Meanwhile, Kaduna State governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has condemned the unfortunate bombing of three churches in Wusasa in Zaria local government area, Sabon Gari and Trikania in Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State and imposed a 24-hour cur...
Reprisal attacks after the bombings led to the death of over 50 people with scores injured and property worth millions destroyed in Kaduna. LEADERSHIP correspondents who visited some of the scenes confirmed that a number of Achaba (motorcycle) riders a...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described as a big surprise the news of the Sunday church bombings in Zaria and Kaduna, even as it said the killing of innocent lives must be brought to an end. In a statement sent electronically to journalists by...
A frontline member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kabba/Bunu local government of Kogi State, Aliu Raphael Olorunpomi, was on Saturday abducted by five armed men who stormed his Happy Hour Parks & Garden in Kabba, Kogi State. Olorunpomi&rs...
The Niger State government is to employ 6,000 National Certificate in Education (NCE)and Diploma certificate holders into its schools as a way of improving the standard of teaching and learning in the schools. As a result, the government has establishe...
The struggle for the gubernatorial ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State for the 2015 general elections is begining to cause a rift withinthe party. The development, according to sources close to the leadership of ACN in the sta...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch has thrown its weight behind between June 11 and 13 calls for a national conference to discuss the multifarious problems facing the nation. The association described the convening of a national conferen...
The TY Danjuma Foundation has again put smiles on the faces of the visually impaired after a week training workshop on Braille, mobility and chess game for the blind which ended in Abuja at the weekend. Speaking with journalists at the event, Pro...