Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party Taraba State, Hon. Victor Bala who confiscated the working tools of LEADERSHIP reporter including camera, phone and a tape recorder in Taraba State has returned the reporter’s working tools pleadin...
A legal icon, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) at the weekend explained that the people of Edo North and other parts of the state rejected the offer of Deputy Governor dangled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the incumbent Governor, Comrade Adam...
The Faculty of Law of the University of Nigeria has produced over 7000 graduates in 50 years of its existence as the pioneer Law faculty in Nigeria just as it had commenced plans to celebrate its Golden Jubilee. Chairman of University of Nigeria, Enugu...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that its bribery allegation against President Goodluck Jonathan, over the construction or ‘renovation’ of a church in his village, has nothing to do with religious or ethnic considerations...
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, on Friday wedded a 22-year-old lady in Lokoja. Curiously, the wedding Fathia (prayer) took place in the mosque at Lugard (Government) House, just as the reception was also held in t...
The policeman, who shot a pregnant woman Safiya and her husband, Mohammed Kabir, last week when they visited Tunga area of Minna, has been dismissed from service. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dismissal of the policeman was a result of an orderly room t...
The sleepy community of Achara, in Obowo local government area of Imo State, was thrown into confusion few days before the Easter holidays after the traditional ruler of the area, His Royal Highness Eze Kenneth Nnaji, allegedly stabbed one of his subje...
Native doctors in the Delta State capital, Asaba, and its environs are reportedly making brisk business with men of God who allegedly hire their services to increase membership of their churches, by securing for them ‘extra power’ to produc...
Sokoto State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday expressed dismay over the recent acquisition of N600 million housing by the Sokoto State government, describing the decision as a clear indication of the fact thatv the government i...
The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre(CISLAC), Mr. Auwal Rafsanjani, has attributed the delay in the passage of the 2012 budget to a deliberate ploy by the executive arm of government to frustrate the nation’s econom...
The Kano State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has distanced itself from the candidature of Ismaila Ammani Maizare as the national deputy president of the union. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP and signed by the chairman o...
A car bomb exploded along a busy roadway Sunday morning in a central Nigeria city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset by religious, ethnic and political violence, an official said. The blast struck Kaduna, the capital of ...
The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Mr Jinjiri Abubakar, says the two vehicles carrying the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) were heading toward Kakuri to Sabon Tasha. He told newsmen on Sunday in Kaduna that the two vehicles were pursued by d...
The Commissioner for Power and Energy in Delta, Mr Charles Emetulu, said that the State Government had got approval to step down 150 megawatts of electricity in Asaba. Emetulu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba that Asaba remained the only ...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says its vision of stable and vibrant African economies by 2022 will be predicated on policy choices made by regional member countries. Ousman Dore, Resident Representative of the bank in Nigeria, stated this ...