President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist sect Boko Haram. The measure is in force in areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday pledged that there would be no hiding place for sponsors of members of the terrorist group, `Boko Haram’ which had claimed responsibilities for a number of terror attacks in the country. The president state...
No fewer than 7,000 policemen have been deployed to all the churches in Niger to protect worshippers during the New Year celebration in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Mr Richard Oguche, said more personnel wer...
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Michael Zuokumor, has said that the security agencies are determined to reduce the crime rate in the territoty the barest minimum. Zuokumor gave the assurance on Saturday when he led security operatives on a joint ope...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ODO) on Saturday warned the media against misinforming the public on the Boko Haram crisis. Lt.-Col. Hassan Ifijeh, the JTF spokesman, gave the warning while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. Ifijeh s...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is hale and hearty, the Presidency Spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said this in a statement on Saturday. The correspondent reports that the statement issued in johannesburg, became inevitable to quell rum...
A former Nigerian ambassador to Spain and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federal House of Representatives, Dr Kingsley S Ebenyi, has condemned the persistent persecution of Nigerians by the Malaysian police. Ebenyi described as outrageo...
The 2011 season in professional golf could be known for few different things. First, Tiger Woods won again. Granted, it was his own unofficial event with 17 other players in the field, but a win is a win. Woods’ Chevron World Challenge title was ...
Odioama, a Nembe-speaking Ijaw community, is at the fringe of the Atlantic ocean in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. That is where the latest oil spill allegedly took place at a facility belonging to the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas supermajor,...
The deplorable security situation in Kogi State has taken another dimension, following the invasion of Ebiraland by hired assasins, killing innocent citizens at will. Investigation by LEADERSHIP WEEKEND revealed that in the last few weeks, no fewer tha...
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The Federal Government appears to be overwhelmed and unable to respond adequately to the series of bombings in many parts of the country, that have claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians and their property. Against the backdrop of new threats of attac...
By unseemly installments, the dream of a new nation grounded on the egalitarian precepts of its founding nationalists is being destroyed by shadowy crisis entrepreneurs alleging injustice and chanting quirky mantras as they barbarously pluck at the del...
The Minister of state for Niger Delta, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, has said that the bomb explosion on an Islamic School in Sapele, Dalta State which followed after the explosion at St Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla was not an attack to revenge the bomb bla...
Despite the spate of bombings in many parts of the country, which have claimed many lives and property, the federal government has said that it does have an accurate figure of the death toll and those wounded in the attacks. The admittance by the gover...