The Plateau Government Friday banned the operation of motorcycles in Jos and Bukuru metropolis, citing the security situation in the state capital as a reason for the action. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Abraham Yiljap, announced the ban at a n...
A report that a car laden with explosive devices had been abandoned at AP Plaza, Wuse II, Abuja, caused panic in the area on Friday. Workers in the building and those of a new generation bank located beside it were evacuated and the area cordoned off b...
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Friday apologised to Lagos residents over the hardship arising from the ongoing strike by doctors in the employ of the state. Addressing some Lagos residents who stormed his office in protest against t...
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) on Friday called for the prosecution of all marketers allegedly involved in the oil subsidy fraud. Mr David Ugolor, the Executive Director of ANEEJ, made this known in an interview with th...
A 35-year-old man, Prosper Oguchi, was on Friday arraigned before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly having unnatural carnal knowledge of 11-year-old boy. Oguchi of no fixed address is facing a one-count charge of unnatural c...
Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary to Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, was Thursday night trailed by gunmen and shot dead at his residence in Benin.A statement from the Special Adviser on media affairs to the governor, Tony ...
It may not be the most handsome of creatures. But this mouse – or more specifically its bristly tuft of hair – could hold the remedy for baldness and going grey, scientists claim. They have worked out how to use stem cells to create pigment...
Dr. Sam Amadi, the chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in this interview with JULIET ALOHAN, speaks on the age-long corruption that has bedeviled the electricity industry and the findings of the probe committee set up by ...
The 50th birth anniversary of the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, has come and gone. The August occasion, which metamorphosed from “a morning of reflections” to a frank talkshop on burning is...
The belief that gum disease can lead to heart attacks and strokes is unfounded, experts said recently. A panel of 13 U.S. scientists insisted there was no evidence for a causal link between bad gums and cardiovascular disease. They reviewed 500 article...
Players and officials of Sunshine Stars of Akure got the shock of their lives when Malian soldiers stormed their hotel room in Bamako under the guise of searching for rebels. Some players of the CAF Champions League representatives were said to be so d...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday said that the Lower House will be working through its relevant committees overseeing indicted government agencies and anti graft agencies to ensure implementation of its probe rep...
The Federal Government yesterday restated that it would prosecute those found culpable in the report of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on fuel subsidy scam. In a press statement signed by the attorney-general of the federation and minist...
There was drama at the premises of the Special Fraud Unit(SFU) of the Nigeria Police in Lagos yesterday after former governor of Kwara State and serving senator, Dr Bukola Saraki honoured an invitation to respond to allegations of a N9bn loan sca...
After over three months incarceration, the Niger State Government has announced the release of 161 persons arrested and charged in connection with the January 2012 fuel subsidy induced riots in the state. The Attorney General and Commissioner of ...