Four persons yesterday lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash at Okomi-Aku village along the Lokoja-Abuja highway. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that the accident which occured at about 3am involved a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number SM 882 K...
There may be no hiding place for tax evaders in Lagos State any longer , as the State Government has given 10 days ultimatum to 5.3 million tax defaulters to comply or face the wrath of the law. Addressing journalists at a press brief...
The Faculty of Science University of Lagos (UNILAG) was yesterday gutted by fire as students, staff and fire fighters battled the inferno for several hours. The inferno which began very early in the morning was put off around 12 noon. A source in...
Mo Hits crooner Wande Coal is out of with a new music video the first single of his Sophomore album.
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Tuesday in Kaduna assured supporters of the PDP of a free and fair Zonal congress of the party. The congress, scheduled for Wednesday in Kaduna, is expected to produce zonal officials who would run the affairs...
The 2014 Champions League final will be held in Lisbon while the Europa League final the same year is set for Turin, Italy, UEFA announced Tuesday. European football's governing body, meeting in Istanbul ahead of an executive committe...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Umaru Manko, on Tuesday directed the Yoruba and the Hausa communities in the Ketu-Mile 12 area to set up a 12-man peace committee. Manko gave the directive at the meeting he held with representatives of t...
The 58-year-old custodian of a popular night masquerade in Okene, Kogi, Malam Muhammed Jaguda, has been killed by unknown gunmen who allegedly kidnapped him from his residence. The body of Jaguda, the Ogu Clan night masquerade custodian, was discovered...
The Kano Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old man, Auwalu Mohammed, for allegedly killing a lady believed to be his girl friend. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Magaji Majiya, in Kano on Tuesday, indicated that the suspect w...
The Lagos State Police Command said it had arrested six suspected armed robbers and recovered some arms and ammunition in the past four days. The command spokesman, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, made the disclosure on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere has dragged his party and its favoured chairmanship candidate in the Saturday National Convention, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur before a Federal High Court to...
The Police in Delta has arrested a suspected kidnapper and rescued a woman and her three children in Effurun, near Warri in Delta. Mr Charles Muka, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Tuesday that t...
A housewife, Zulaihatu Sule , 23, of the Rigasa area of Kaduna on Tuesday, urged a Kaduna Sharia Court to direct her husband, Muhammad Garba, to divorce her because of his sickness. Zulaihatu told the court that she was not aware that her h...
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) plans to introduce a Ministerial Open House platform to unite policy makers and stakeholders and enrich public policy in the country. The Agency’s Director-General, Mr. Mike Omeri, announced this on Tue...
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja announced the redeployment of 14 Permanent Secretaries and the appointment of two new ones. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Tope Ajakaiye, Deputy Director (Press & Public Relations) on behalf...