Comrade Adakole Ochai is the president of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS). In this interview with some journalists, he talked about the controversy trailing the association and other issues. JOHN OBA was there for LEADERSHIP WEEKEND...
In this interview with EMMA OKEREH, Hon. Ini Udoka speaks on issues of national importance. The ranking lawmaker, who represents Ini/Ikono federal constituency in the House of Representatives, says that a gradual deregulation of the oil sector and the ...
Edmund Burke once said, ‘Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.’ Edmund Burke couldn't be more correct as that little help from two LEADERSHIP staff was what may have saved the life of J...
The Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, ( PDP), will face herculean task as over 735 delegates converge at the Dr Samuel Ogbemudia main bowl to pick a candidate that will confront Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s ruling Actio...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has expressed concern over cases of blackmail against operatives of the anti-graft agency by perceived antagonists, even as he said that operatives of the agency had b...
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday frowned at the quality of jobs by the Niger Delta Development Commission in the state. The governor who stated his displeasure during the visit of the newly appointed Edo State representative on the Boar...
Northern elders and political leaders have thrown their weight behind mounting calls for the restructuring of Nigeria to address the lopsidedness in the nation’s politics and economy. Many individuals and groups in the country have lately renewed...
Bako Haram operatives yesterday stormed a mosque in Sheka Quarters in Kumbotso Local Governemnt Area of Kano State and killed five persons. The attack came barely 24 hours after gunmen killed four persons in the same state on Thursday. According ...
Former speaker of Kebbi State House of Assembly, Hon. Aminu Musa Habib Jega, was yesterday sworn in as governor of the state, following the Supreme Court judgement annuling the election of Usman Saidu Dakingari in the 2011 gubernatorial election. The S...
After years of sentencing delays, a former Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) incorporated chief executive, Mr. Albert ‘Jack’ Stanley was yesterday sentenced to two and half years in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe Nigerian govern...
The Senate will investigate the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF) on funds disbursed to it for the payment of pensions. Sen. Aloysius Etok, Chairman of the senate joint committee on Establishment and Public Service and that of Stat...
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq claimed responsibility for a wave of coordinated attacks that mainly targeted police forces in Shi'ite areas and killed at least 60 people across the country on Thursday. In a statement seen on Islamist websites on ...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has released six players out of the 22 in camp, to their various club sides ahead of this weekend’s Nigerian Premier League games. Ben Alaiya, Super Eagles Media Officer, in a statement on Friday in Abuja s...
The EFCC on Friday dragged former Bayelsa governor, Mr Timipre Sylva to a Federal High Court in Abuja for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion public funds. The anti-graft agency in suit number FHC/ABJ/CR/23/2012 claimed that Sylva and other...
Nigeria's Amos Adamu has lost his appeal against a three-year ban from football.He was sanctioned by football's world governing body Fifa after allegations of corruption in the run-up to the decision on who should host the 2018 and 2022 World C...