The second batch of 17 beneficiaries of the Niger Delta amnesty programme have arrived Poland on a two-year training programme. Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Niesioywski Przemyslaw, announced this yesterday in an interview with the News Agency...
The lingering violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has shoot up the rents of houses in the Southern part of the city, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN correspondents, who went round some parts of the city, report that rents had skyr...
The Acting National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, yesterday described the Christmas Day bombings in parts of the country by the dreaded Boko Haram sect as a terrorist act. Alhaji Baraje made this declara...
A member representing Kabba- Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency, Hon. Yusuf Ayo Tajudeen has said that by the first quarter of next year, he will sink 60 bore-holes in every ward across the constituency. He said that it was his duty as a House of Represen...
Following the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, groups under the aegis of the Arewa Civil Societies Forum (ASCF) has called for the sack of security chiefs in the country, for their failure to protect the life and property of the Nig...
As the January governorship election in Adamawa State approaches, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has descibed as a sign of fear the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the CPC is planning to rig the election. In a press statemen...
Rookie Norris Cole was the star man for the Miami Heat as they beat Boston 115-107 to maintain their impressive start to the National Basketball Association season. They handed the Celtics their second consecutive loss. The Heat, beaten by Dallas in la...
Dolphin coach Stanley Eguma is worried about the weakness of the team. The NPL champions will line out today in the Super Cup against Heartland in Kaduna. “We will make do with the players we presently have in camp as most of our top stars are on...
Senegal is hitting next month’s Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with seven world-class strikers. The Senegalese Football Association named their final squad for the competition yesterday. The coach Amara Traore 23-man s...
Top Dutch club PSV Eindhoven has terminated the contract of Nigeria Olympic midfield star Rabiu Ibrahim. The sack was with immediate effect. Ibrahim failed to break into the PSV first-team and was subsequently fired as the contract his England-based ag...
Sports loving Nigerians will not forget 2011 in a hurry. It is a year sports administrators in almost all the federations failed to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians. Nigeria boasts of 32 federations and a handful held tourneys in line with sp...
A bomb explosion at an Islamic school in Sapele, Delta State has left no fewer than seven teenagers injured.LEADERSHIP gathered that the blast - initially mistaken by neighbours around the Community for Christmas fireworks - saw ...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and some lawyers on Wednesday reacted to the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the appeal by the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) against the election of President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr Adebamigbe O...
President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed Wednesday’s judgment of the Supreme Court, which confirmed his victory in the April Presidential elections. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abat...
As part of the commission’s effort to reduce accidents to the barest minimum during the new year festivities,the Osun State Sector command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has release its hot lines that could be called in case of ac...