The Sokoto State Government has spent more than N8.8 billion on the first phase of its university in Sokoto, the Special Adviser on Higher Education, Prof. Gajam Ardo, has said. Ardo told a Press Conference in Sokoto yesterday that the structures...
A group, the Bonny Graduates Forum (BGF), the umbrella body of all graduates from Bonny local government area of Rivers State, has called for the unconditional and immediate release of the secretary and legal adviser of the Rivers State Traffic Managem...
Unidentified gunmen,have raided and abducted a worker aboard a supply vessel to the ExxonMobil oil platform, off Akwa Ibom coastline. One other person was injured in the process. The Management of Mobil Producing Nigeria, the local un...
M aiduguri, the Borno state capital yesterday, recorded another killing as some unidentified gunmen shot and killed a butcher in broad day light at the popular Baga road market while other Nigerians were marking the country’s 51st independence an...
Allegations of fraud and internal wranglings to unseat the acting general manager of the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) have set the station in crisis. Management staffers of the station are said to be involved in as show down with one another...
Some kinds of questions naturally provoke God to action. Such questions might intimidate the fearful but they embolden the faithful whose hearts are full of faith in their God. “But if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst...
Hon. Jim Adun, a retired Group Captain of the Air force, represents Eger Ikpoba Okha Federal Constituency of Edo State. In this restricted interview with journalists, including LEADERSHIP’S RUTH CHOJI, in Abuja, he sheds light on the role of the ...
A part of Mabushi community in the Mabushi Cadastral zone of the Federal Capital Territory, has for much of the past four weeks, remained without power from the national source, no thanks to some hoodlums who carted away some PHCN installed cable...
The War Against Poverty (WAP) initiated by the former director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu I. Tsiga, has served as a platform for training serving youth corps members on entrepreneurship skills, thereb...
Remarks by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader, Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) at the conferment of “Person of the Year” award by Leadership Newspapers Group at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Thursday, September 29, 2011 I am hono...
First son of late Kudirat Abiola, wife of late Chief M.K.O Abiola, acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Olalekan Yushua Abiola spoke to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s CHIKA OTUCHIKERE on the deaths of his parents and the co...
Once president of the senate of the short-lived Third Republic, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, a former university don, has been involved in politics since the return of democracy in 1999 and had served in four key ministries at the cabinet level. In this interview...
Dr Usman Bugaje was once the national secretary of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria. He was also the party’s governorship candidate in Katsina State, first in 2007 and again in 2011. In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, he speaks on the...
Remarks by General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, at the conferment of the award of Politician of the Year on him by Leadership Newspapers Group, at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Thursday, September 29, 2011 I would like to, first of all, thank the Lea...
The two most successful clubs in Italian football, AC Milan and Juventus go head-to-head today in a game which used to be regarded as ‘the glamour tie’ of the Serie A, before the Calciopolli scandal (which saw Juventus accused of match-fixi...