Escalating violence that has claimed many lives and property in parts of the north yesterday forced President Goodluck Jonathan to kick out the national security adviser, General Andrew Azazi, and the minister of defence, Alhaji Haliru Mohammed Bello. ...
A bomb-laden car yesterday exploded opposite a popular night club, Kryxtal Lounge in Wuse 2, Abuja. Although details of the blast were still sketchy as at press time, LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that at about 11pm yesterday, a car parked be...
Husband to the late principal of the Federal Government College, Bwari, Abuja, Marie Okwulehie, a victim of the ill-fated Dana aircraft, Mr. Paul Okwulehie, yesterday made a passionate plea to the federal government not to allow the report of the Dana ...
Indications emerged yesterday that, with the listing of three Boko Haram kingpins as ‘‘global terrorists’’, the United States can deploy its drones to take out the suspected terrorists if there is any threat to American interest...
Once more, the peaceful nature of Kaduna State had again been threatened following violent protests after two churches in Kaduna and another in Zaria were bombed last Sunday, throwing the whole state into turmoil and confusion. Almost every nook and cr...
As insecurity reigns supreme in most parts of Northern Nigeria, a former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has urged the northern political elite to look beyond President Goodluck Jonathan for solution to the insecurity ...
Niger State police command has arrested members of a seven-man robbery gang who have been terrorising the state and neighbouring ones, while five others were arrested with N2.7m counterfeit naira notes . LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that the gang which ...
Gunmen on Thursday attacked traders of Eke Awka main market during an executive meeting of chairmen and secretaries of the various lines and zones in the market, disrupting the gathering. An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that the gunmen, numbering...
The family members of the slain stalwart of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Kabba, Kogi State, Prince Raphael Olorunpomi and the state police command have disagreed over the circumstances that led to his death. The spokesman of the ...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) yesterday raised alarm over declines in the country’s oil and gas reserves, saying there has been depletion in activities and investments in that sector. The DPR Director Mr.OstenOlorunsola ...
Two independent United Nations (UN) human right experts, yesterday urged greater protection for media professionals, citing high number of attacks, including arbitrary arrests, torture and killings, as well as sexual violence against female journalists...
The community leader of Masaka in Nasarawa State, Ambassador William Yaji, has said that for government to overcome the security challenges in the country, village chiefs must be trained on intelligence gathering. Yaji stated this in Abuja yesterday wh...
Habibu Bama, the man suspected to be the mastermind of the 2011 Christmas bombing at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, near Abuja is dead. According to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND source, the suspect who was arrested on Thursday along other of his ilks, d...
The clamour for the creation of more states and removal of immunity clause from the nation’s constitution on Friday drew flaks of the Lagos state Governor, Mr.Babatunde Fashola, former minister of Works, Alhaji Femi Okunnu among other stakeholder...
Nigeria would soon overcome its present security challenges and emerge a stronger and more vibrant nation, the outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the country, Mr. Moshe Ram, has predicted. Speaking at a farewell dinner organised for him and the outgoing de...