A 35-year-old businessman, Alex Okemen, was on Tuesday arraigned at an Oshodi Magistrates' Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing N3.1 million. The prosecutor, Cpl. Olatunde Kehinde, told the court that Okemen obtained the amount from Mic-Oscar Compa...
Popular comic actor/director Tyler Perry‘s Atlanta studio complex has been severely damaged in a fire. According to reports, the fire started around 9pm on Tuesday May 1, 2012 and one of the buildings has partially collapsed. The 60...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will seek advice from the Federal Government over the venue of the upcoming World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches of the Super Eagles. The Super Eagles had been scheduled to face Nami...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State Sam is younger than Nigeria’s independence but wiser than the independence, more truthful and sincere than the independence. Congratulation! You have lived the mission statement of LEADERSHIP ve...
Barely a week after the National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Azazi, accused the PDP of fuelling the rise of Boko Haram due to its politics of exclusiveness, former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has also fingered the excesses of the part...
Amidst repeated bombings in the country and calls for disintegration, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has asked Nigerians to bring their areas of grievances to the National Assembly for appropriate action. Speak...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana, has called on the National Assembly to conduct a public hearing on terrorist attacks and suspected assassination attack on Governor Adams Oshiomhole following a road accident involving his convoy. The fiery civil rights lawye...
Nigeria is one of the few countries that will produce the largest population increases in the world in the next 40 years according to the United Nations obtained by LEADERSHIP yesterday. A recent report from the UN Department of Economic and Social Aff...
The official visit of governor Ibikunle Amosun to local governments in Ogun State turned bloody yesterday when some hoodlums attacked his convoy at Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. The governor’s convoy, which was on its way back to Abeokuta, the Ogun Sta...
The Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly called Boko Haram, yesterday named more media houses and their employees as targets of their attack. In an 18-minute-long Youtube video, the group threatened to attack more med...
Congestion, and other unhealthy acts currently threatening the various prisons in Delta State with thirty inmates, allegedly said to have died from strange illnesses. Dependable prison sources said nowadays, inmates’ room could take as many...
As part of efforts to engender peace in the country, women of both Christian and Muslim faiths yesterday converged in Kaduna to call on God to intervene in the insurgency that has bedevilled the nation. The programme, which was organized by the Nigeria...
Residents of the Government Reserved Area (GRA) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have petitioned the state government over the colossal damage caused by the on-going reconstruction work in the area. The state government had late last year engaged the ser...
The new police commissioner in Imo State, Mr. Christopher Dega has admitted that the case of the kidnapped former Speaker of the state, Godfrey Dikeocha who is still being held is proving to be a very hard nut to crack. Dega in an interactive session w...
Sunday Adepoju represents Ido/Ibarapa federal constituency in the House of Representatives. In this interview with SAKIN BABALOLA, the lawmaker spoke on various issues including his views on the pension fund scam, the achievements of the ACN governors ...