The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released a timetable for staggered governorship elections in six states -Sokoto, Bayelsa, Edo, Adamawa, Cross River and Kogi. The INEC commissioner in charge of Information and Publicity, P...
The manner in which the nation’s tertiary institutions conduct admission for new entrants is marred with irregularities. The situation is not getting any better and those seeking admission are the worst for it. However, at the second combined pol...
Cross River State Government might be on a collision course with its sister states, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as it refuted publications credited to their respective governors, Chief Rotimi Amaechi and Obong Godswill Akpabio. The first refutal was over the...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Ogoniland in Rivers State. The Bodo fishing community in Ogoni, sued Shell in the United Kingdom (UK), alleging that oil spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed t...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday pleaded with foreign countries to help fight corruption in Nigeria by legislating against receiving and keeping rogue money. He said that such legislations would criminali...
The Association of Muslim Brotherhood of Nigeria (AMBON) has argued that there is no prohibition of Western education in Islam. In a communiqué issued in Kaduna at the end of its meeting, which was signed by its national president, Abu-sufyan Ibn Abub...
A 26-year-old final year student of the University of Jos, Nnamdi Nwocha, yesterday appeared before a Kaswar-Nama Upper Area Court for allegedly raping a minor.Nnamdi, a resident of Zarama Close, Farin-gada, Jos, appeared before Malam Mustapha Hassan o...
Niger State governor, Muazu Babagida Aliyu, has said that only the judiciary arm of government could rescue the nation from the incessant manipulations of the nation’s polity by few individuals to suit their purposes. Aliyu who presided over the ...
The 15th batch of ex-militants numbering 1,500, the highest single figure, have started receiving lectures at the Federal Government Amnesty rehabilitation Camp at Obubra, Cross River State. The batch which comprised mainly, ex-militants from Bayelsa S...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has charged his fellow northern governors to pay very special attention to agricultural development especially peasant agriculture Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP Correspondent in the United...
Nigeria FIBA graded referee, Babatunde Popoola has been listed by Africa basketball ruling body – FIBA Africa to officiate at the 26th edition of the FIBA Africa Championship for Men slated for Antananarivo, Madagascar, between August 17 and 28. ...
The Nigeria Olympic Committee has appointed Youdees Integrated Services Limited (YISL) as their official partner to manage the 2011 Olympic Games commercial promotions scheme. The appointment of the sports marketing firm was after the NOC scrutinized o...
Leonardo DiCaprio has topped the list of Hollywood's highest paid actors for the first time. He earned £47million from box office hits Inception and Shutter Island, from which he picked up a slice of the profits. The 36-year-old heart-...
The administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, says it is introducing austerity measures in its bid to pay the N18,000 minimum wage and further deliver democracy dividends. GEORGE OKOJIE examines the circumstances that demand such sev...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), requesting it to urgently seek adequate damages and compensation from multinational corporations who have been found guilty...