Five months after he resigned as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Ogun State chapter of the party has initiated moves to hold a grand civic reception for former President, Chief Olusegu...
An early morning inferno, yesterday, gutted two rooms at the palace of the Emir of Katsina with items worth millions of naira including jewelries allegedly destroyed. It was gathered that the fire occurred around 3:15 am and lasted hours as it wa...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has called on the federal government to arrest, immediately, the former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Andy Uba, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Chibuike Achigbu and charge...
The State Security Service (SSS) was yesterday the subject of an Associated Press (AP) report claiming that personal details of more than 60 of its operatives including its Director General, Mr Ita Ekperyong had been leaked to the internet through unid...
A section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba in Lagos State went up in flame yesterday evening throwing Management and patients on admission into panic. The fire which LEADERSHIP learnt started around 7.30 pm was said to h...
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has taken gold for Nigeria in the men’s -48kg powerlifting with a world record lift of 180kg. Adesokan was a full 10kg ahead of silver medallist Vladimir Balynedc of Russia, while Taha Abdelmagid of Egypt claimed b...
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo, Japan
The out-going President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), on Thursday criticised the plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria to introduce N5,000 notes. In a speech in Abuja at the Annual General Conference of the association, Daudu sa...
Yakubu Adesokan of Nigeria this afternoon bettered his World Record set in qualifying to take the first Powerlifting gold of the London 2012 Paralympics Games in the Men’s 48kg with a lift of 180kg.
The Federal Government has designated Anambra as an oil-bearing state in the country. President Goodluck Jonathan made the pronouncement on Thursday while inaugurating Orient Petroleum Resources Plc at Aguleri-Otu in the Anambra East Local Govern...
Telephone subscribers in the country want the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to address the incessant fabricated Short Message Service (SMS) making the rounds. Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, President, National Association of Telecommunications Subsc...
A 100-year-old driver lost control of his car outside a Los Angeles school and injured 11 people, including nine children, the television station NBC Los Angeles reported. Four of the children were reported to be in critical condition after Wednesday&#...
No fewer than 2,000 students may be deported from Briatain after the government stripped a university of its right to admit foreigners. London Metropolitan University has had its Highly Trusted Status (HTS) for sponsoring international students revoked...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Thursday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to consider State Police in the ongoing constitution review. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Rotimi Fashakin, who said this in an interview with the News Agenc...
The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Terence McCulley, on Monday in Abuja said his country had supported Nigeria with a grant of 500 million dollars in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other related diseases since 2005. McCulley said this at the inaugurati...