David Okoror, director general of African Diaspora Initiative, has joined the call for more funding of the ICPC instead of merging it with the EFCC. Ruth Choji was there for LEADERSHIP WEEKEND What is African Diaspora Initiative all about? African Dias...
Winston Odumu Ojobi is a politician and a public commentator. The former director of Shekarau Campaign Organization, International in this interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’S Ruth Choji condemned some of the CBN new polices on cash withdrawal as ...
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in this interview speaks to BAYO OLADEJI over the feud between General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida. Excerpts. Sir, you issued a statement last Sunday taking a position on IBB/OBJ feud. But you later mad...
Several houses and shops in 65 Battallion Bonny Cantonment in Lagos have been taken over by flood at the Bar Beach, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that the flood destroyed the walls of the residence of the Commanding Officer of t...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Kogi State has apprehended eight suspects in August, this year, the state commander of organisation disclosed. Mallam Idris Mohammed Bello who made this known at a media briefing in Lokoja, disclosed that 19....
There are indications that the United Nations (UN) Security Council may freeze all the assets of Libya as crisis continues to rock the Arab country under the rule of its controversial leader, Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The indications are emerging as th...
Indication has emerged that members of the proscribed National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) have returned to motor parks in Ibadan and some other major towns in Oyo state in spite of the fact that an order imposed on its members remain in fo...
Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has condemned the bomb blast at the United Nation’s office complex in Abuja, yesterday, which claimed the lives of some innocent persons and caused grave damage to the office complex. Reacting to the ...
Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) has condemned the fatal bomb attack on the Nigerian headquarters of the United Nations in the diplomatic zone of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Speaking yesterday in a statement made available to ...
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has expressed shock and disbelief on the attack of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja. Jang in a statement issued in Jos, the Plateau State capital yesterday, and signed by Mr. James Mannock, director of pres...
Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the suspension of Justice Ayo Salami as the president of Court of Appeal as bad development in the country’s democratic system, which portends serious danger in our judicial...
West Brom manager Roy Hodgson is considering give a first start of the season to striker Peter Odemwingie in Sunday’s home Premier League clash with Stoke. The Nigeria international, Albion’s top scorer with 15 goals last term, has recovere...
Nigeria’s hope for a successful outing at the 13th edition of the IAAF World Championship which gets underway today in Deagu, South Korea, after a disappointing performance two years ago in Berlin, Germany rest on Africa’s queen of track, B...
In what could be regarded as a black Friday, a suspected suicide bomber attacked the United Nations (UN) House in Abuja, leaving a one-year-old and 39 others dead with over 200 injured, just as workers and visitors to the building were trapped there. B...
The outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu yesterday inaugurated 30 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) amidst tight security in spite of the directive of the Nigerian Bar Association, directing its members and the new S...