Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, granted state pardon to a 75-year- old prisoner, Kayode Adeyemi and six others serving various jail terms in the state. The pardon, which was in commemoration of the governor's 54th birthday, was announced throug...
The federal government on Thursday bowed to pressure mounted on it by governors of the 36 states of the federation that it should refund the sum of N350 billion being the sum total of funds spent by state governments on federal roads. This was the deci...
Erastus Akingbola, a former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, said that it would be unfair if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was allowed to choose a judge in a matter involving it. He made the argument in a counter-...
The Sokoto Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has denied reports that its Comptroller, Alhaji Atiku Mustapha, was attacked by armed robbers on the Gusau-Tsafe highway on Monday. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Alhaji Musa Alhassan...
Alhaji Muhammed Garba, National President, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has condemned the incessant killings of journalists in the country, and called on the authorities to arrest the situation. Garba, while addressing journalists at the NUJ Pre...
The Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra, Chief Mike Kwento, has expressed worry over the spate of bombings in some parts of the country. Kwento, in Awka on Wednesday, said that the situation was giving the country a bad i...
Alhaji Muktari Mapia, a PDP chieftain in Sokoto State, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to organise a national security summit to find a lasting solution to the current killings in the country. Mapia said in Sokoto on Wednesday that such summi...
Dr Folashade Oluwole, a Senior Registrar at the Nephrology and Geriatrics Unit, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, has advocated for the passage of an Elders Rights Act by the National Assembly to cater for the aged. She made the ca...
Sequel to allegations of hosting and bankrolling the deadly activities of the radical Islamist Terrorist group, Boko Haram, Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, Thursday, January 26, 2012 stated that the group has no operational base in his state. Yuguda...
The British High Commission in Nigeria yesterday stated that the Boko Haram sect has portends a grave danger to British interest and the global family. The Deputy High Commissioner, of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Giles Lever who stated ...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) yesterday sealed off ten petrol stations in Kaduna State for involving in sharp practices ranging from diversion and selling of fuel above the price of 97 naira. LEADERSHIP gathered that seven of the sealed f...
Election into the top positions of the AU Commission is expected to dominate proceedings at the next AU Summit. African Heads of State and Government would from January 29 to 30, meet in Addis Ababa for their biennial Summit. However, during the two-da...
The UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) says Nigeria’s energy consumption can be reduced drastically if households use energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. This was contained in the 2011 GEF Project Report signed by Etiosa Uyigue, the Nationa...
Coaches at the ongoing All Stars Female Football Championship on Wednesday in Lagos advised parents to encourage their wards to take to sports to enhance their well being. The coaches said the combination of education with sports was an added advantage...
A Kaduna-based legal practitioner, Yahaya Mahmood (SAN) yesterday said the removal of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, was not the end of the matter as he could not be solely responsible for recent tragic happenings across Nigeria. In a c...