Last week, a Lagos high court ordered the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay Babatunde ‘Baba Suwe’ Omidina the whopping sum of N25m for defamation of character. For those who were there, it was a spectacle to behold, as the ...
No, I won’t mention the title of the film. Doing so will only give it unsolicited advert. This is about one of the actresses who featured in it; Uche Jombo. After establishing herself in the English genre of Nollywood, she moved over to get a fee...
Singer Katy Perry’s life is becoming a soap opera. At least, that’s how the pop star sees it, given all the rumours surrounding her these days. First, there was speculation that she was expecting, which she colourfully denied. Now, there ha...
Singer Elton John has declared a new war on AIDS and the “fascists and idiots” who continue to stigmatise the disease. The outspoken singer finished off World AIDS Day 2011 with a stirring speech last (Saturday) night, as he watched firewor...
Basketballer Kris Humphries’s filing for an annulment shook up Kim Kardashian, even though she had considered doing the same thing, a source said. “The filing is, of course, upsetting,” said the source, who is close to the reality sta...
Before the inauguration of the Seventh National Assembly in June this year, the Ohan bridge along Alapa – Bakase – Baruten road was in deplorable condition. The importance of this bridge to the socio-economic activities of the people of Kwa...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura, of Nasarawa state, took over the mantle of leadership of the state, as the third democratically elected governor, on the 29th of May,2011. Al-makura’s emergence as the governor of the young state has indeed changed...
The residents of Lokoja and the people of Kogi State will not forget in a hurry the recent visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state. The president was in the confluence state to attend the grand finale of the campaign for yesterday’s (sa...
Pigba, a slum in the FCT may not be very popular compared to many other slums which LEADERSHIP SUNDAY featured in the past. It nevertheless qualifies as a slum having all the trappings of a slum. In spite of warnings from the FCT authorities that the b...
In what many believe is another litmus test for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday’s governorship election in Kogi state saw the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prince Abubakar Audu taking an early lead in the resul...
The father of convicted spokesman of the Boko Haram sect Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, also known as Usman Al-Zawahiri, Alhaji Sanda Konduga, has stated that his son has had a long history of insanity. The elder Konduga also said that he was not aware that h...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit filed against the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, challenging her eligibility for appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan into the federal cabinet. In a ruling...
The Zamfara police command has arrested Sani Umar, also known as Shedan (Satan) for allegedly leading a team of hoodlums to chop off the left wrist of a 25-year-old lady, Malama Fatima Mohammed, in an attempt to snatch her handbag. LEADERSHIP gathered ...
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain yesterday told supporters that he was suspending his presidential campaign, citing allegations of sexual harassment as reason. Cain was accused of sexual harassment while an Atlanta woman claimed that t...
Tehran is not worried about international repercussions, and why should it be? The West has hesitated to take the steps that could cripple the regime’s economic base and stymie its nuclear ambitions. MAX BOOT writes on the Iranian threat to the W...