Professor Steven Torkuma Ugbah, governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benue state for the April general elections. He spoke recently with a select group of journalists in Makurdi. SOLOMON AYADO was there for LEADERSHIP. ...
It didn't take long for Casper Smart to become a household name. That's what happens when you're a 24-year-old dancer who happens to be dating Jennifer Lopez, 42. So who is this Mr. Smart? Here's everything you need to know, including t...
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the ban of hawking, trading on the walkways and peddling by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) in Abuja. LEADERSHIP investigations yesterday revealed that while some residents were in support of the ...
Stakeholders in the country’s power industry have appraised issues of standardisation in the sector and concluded that there is need for products and services to conform to international standard to rid the industry of substandard electricity pow...
President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved Mrs. Farida Waziri of her job as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). LEADERSHIP gathered that her removal is shrouded in controversy, as her tenure is due to expire by June next year...
A 200-level student of Niger State College of Education Minna, Malam Shuaibu Bala, was murdered Monday in Maitumbi, a suburb of Minna, during a disagreement with his neighbour, Yahaya Ali, over a balance N800 from the sale of a phone ...
JULIET ALOHAN in this piece takes a look at the on-going crises between the federal government and workers in the nation’s power sector which resulted in the shutdown of power facilities in some states recently vis-à-vis its socio-economic effec...
The complex interplay between the demand for petroleum products, especially kerosene and their availability to consumers has remained a problem in the country manifesting itself in scarcity, high price and adulteration which often result in explosion a...
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday threatened to revoke the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of any property in the state rented to armed robbers or used for the perpetuation of criminal activities. Fashola, who dangled the...
More Nigerians have continued to pay condolence visits to the family home of the late Publisher of Guardian Newspaper, Chief Alex Ibru. Those who visited the Ikoyi home of the late media guru included former Minister of Transpor...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, destroyed heaps of marijuana which weighed 24,700kg with a riot act on hemp farmers in Oyo State to beware. The chairman of the agency, Ahmadu Giade, in his keynote address described th...
The Group Managing Director of the Odu’a Investment Company Limited, Mr Adebayo Jimoh, and four other management officials of the conglomerate were yesterday invited by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC...
Both the security operatives and the general public are to blame for the current insecurity bedeviling the country, according to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Audu Abubakar, asserted this yesterday in Bauchi State during his official visi...
The governorship candidate of Justice Party (JP), Mrs. Aisha Elejo Audu-Emeje, former wife of the former governor of Kogi State and candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prince Abubakar Audu, has notified her intentions to reform the North Cen...
The Borno State chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Zanna Shettima, yesterday called for the dissolution of the state executive council.Shettima, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maidu...