A serving Lieutenant Colonel with the Nigerian Army, W.L. Nzidee, has been dragged to a Magistrate Court I over alleged sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) in Kaduna. The accused is in charge of the MTO at the Nigerian Defence Academy ...
Suspected ritualists operating in Asaba and Ughellimetropolis of Delta State, yesterday reportedly abducted six inmates of tuberculosis and leprosy home located inSanubi town,UghelliNorth local government area of the state. Eyewitness said the suspecte...
Directorate of Road Traffic Services otherwise known as VIO inits renewed efforts to restore sanity on roads in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), havearrested and prosecuted110motorists inits mobile courts for traffic offences between September and ...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos headed by Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday convicted a bulk cash courier arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Okeke also ordered him to forfeit 25 per cent of the $286,400 not ...
A Kano-based businessman, AlhajiIdrissaAdamu Kukuri, (Danburan Fika) has described the over three year’s government ofIbrahim Gaidam and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Yobe statea failure. In an interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND in Damat...
Delta State Governor, Emmanuel EwetaUduaghan, yesterday presented a budget of N398.310 billion for 2013 fiscal year to the House of Assembly. The budget tagged “Delta beyond oil” has a capital expenditure of N252.370 billion or 63.3 per cen...
Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Prof. Chukwuma Soludo says oil has been a curse to Nigeria and that, with the exception of Lagos State, the other 35 are unviable. Soludo made the assertion while delivering the distinguished annual ...
The Osun State government has sent a bill to the House of Assembly, seeking stiffer penalties for rapists, including the cutting off of the penis. Mrs. Mofolake Adegboyega, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, told newsmen yesterday in Os...
Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Professor Abdullahi Mustapha yesterday told the newly graduands of the institution to go out and create job opportunities rather than awaiting white-collar job The vice chancellor who s...
Aluu, a community in Rivers State, was in the news recently for the killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt. Anayo onukwugha writes on the present situation in the town Although the community counts among its glitterati the famous ...
My parents are…my mum is super sweet, she is a housewife and is totally dedicated to her family. She is very funny and extremely caring. Dad is very quiet and very reserved; he is all about his family also. He loves joking with his children and ...
So many Nigerian poor families have the challenge of raising many children they have. ANIETIE UDOBIT takes a look at a young Nigerian girl who is going through the tragedy of life so as to survive. Amina is just 7years old but she has fought wars most ...
At conception, the family waited eagerly with joy for the full cycle to run. But from the day he was born 15 months ago, his parents and little Usman, have not slept with their two eyes closed, no thanks to chronic pains caused by a gaping hole in his ...
Senate President David Mark is to lead Federal Government’s delegation to the consecration of Archbishop John Onaiyekan as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. The ceremony is to be performed by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Saturda...
Journalists were on Friday barred from covering the swearing in of the acting President and a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justices Zainab Bulkachuwa and Ifeoma Jombo-Ofo respectively. The event, which took place in one of the chambers of the Suprem...