Nigeria has lost at least N1.06 trillion, or two per cent of its Gross Domestic Products (GDP) to insurgency, analysts have said. An increasingly violent insurgency by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram in the economically stagnant North has begun pressurin...
The Imo State Police Command are presently searching for a vigilante group from Chokoneze community in Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State for allegedly dumping a 16-year-old boy, Chidera Nnorom, in a well after torturing him. According to an eye witness acco...
Hearing in the charges of economic crimes preferred against the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel by the Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) took a new turn yesterday when the trial judge, Justice Olanrewaju Mabeko...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday said it did not at anytime ask the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to show reasons why today’s governorship election in Bayelsa State should not be stopped. The presiding jud...
The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said that the possibility of future strikes cannot be ruled out as it is important that the signed agreement reached by ASUU and the federal governmen...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Kogi State and former director of Pension in the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Shuaibu Sani Teidi, has testified before a Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna, that M...
The Rivers State Correspondent of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, Anayo Onukwugha, has won the ‘Best Political Reporter 2011’ award of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state. The winners of other categories were: Abraham Ajaer...
The Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Chief Mike Omeri, has said that despite the present challenges in some parts of the country, the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable. Speaking in Abuja at a congratulatory dinner organised i...
The former military Head of State and presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday paid glowing tributes to the former Nigeria’s representative in the United Kingdom, late Ambassador Mat...
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have reportedly filed an application to patent their daughter Blue Ivy Carter's name. The couple field paperwork with the US Patent and Trademark Office last month to trademark Blue Ivy Carter's name to prevent others ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has donated N100 million to victims of the recent bomb attacks in Kano. Coordinated bomb attacks rocked Kano on Jan. 20, leaving hundreds dead. The CBN Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, announced the donation when...
The Anambra Police Command on Friday dismissed Cpl. Samuel Ojana, who allegedly shot and killed a commercial bus driver, Edwin Eze, in Onitsha after an orderly room trial. Ojana reportedly carried out the act on Thursday after the driver allegedl...
The fugitive alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger, was re-arrested on Friday by the State Security Service (SSS). The spokesperson for the SSS, Mrs Marilyn Ogar, told newsmen in Abuja on F...
Oil prices rose slightly higher to above 99 dollars a barrel Thursday in Asia, as U.S. crude demand lags the overall improvement in the world's biggest economy. Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 39 cents at 99.10 dollars a barrel at late af...
Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project to help clergy around the world root out paedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers. Ending a four-day conference on child abuse in Rome, Fr Francois-Xavier...