Residents around Oko Community in Edo State were woken up by yesterday by heavy shooting and explosions at the medium prisons which forced many families to abandon their homes. A source confirmed to LEADERSHIP that at about 1:30am armed men used...
President of the Civil Right Congress (CRC), Comrade Shehu Sani, has faulted the claim of the ongoing dialogue between the federal government and the members of the Boko Haram sect in Saudi Arabia, saying that the claim is a ploy by the fe...
The streets in Abuja were yesterday deserted with little vehicular movement as Muslims celebrated the Eid-el-Fitr. This was just as commuters were stranded at various bus stops in the city, with no vehicles to convey them to their destinations, ...
By John Ainofenokhai The new shape and texture of politics in Edo State have presented a positive challenge which politicians in other states must accept: a challenge of commitment to state interest as amply demonstrated by the leadershi...
Residents around Oko Community were woken up by heavy Shooting and explosions which occurred at the medium Prisons in the early hours of Sunday, forcing many families to abandon their homes. Armed men according to sources confirmed ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed hope that with unity and peace, what Nigeria passes through as a nation can only be overcome by prayers. "What we are passing through as nation can be overcome with pra...
The Olusegun Mimiko Campaign Organisation on Sunday in Akure felicitated with Muslims in Ondo as they marked the Eid-el-Fitri celebrations, the end of the Ramadam fast.. The organisation admonished them to imbibe the lessons and values...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday reiterated the call for Nigerians to embrace peace and remain united for any meaningful development to take place. The president spoke when a delegation of Muslims in the FCT, led by Vice- President Namadi Sambo, p...
Farmers in Edo have decried the unavailability of fertilizers for their use, in spite of the operation of e-wallet system of distribution of the commodity as recently introduced by Federal Government. They lamented that they had been withou...
Sen. Bala Mohammed, the Minister of the FCT, says the Federal Government is coming up with a social housing scheme to ameliorate the hardship of those affected by the demolition in the territory. Mohammed disclosed this on Sunday, after a Sallah...
PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, says if the court of law finds his son, Mahmud, guilty of the alleged charges on fuel subsidy mismanagement, he will face the wrath of the law. Tukur spoke at the State House, Abuja, shortly aft...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River has approved N100 million to buy HIV and AIDS test kits, the Director-General of the State Agency for the Control of HIV and AIDS, Mrs Irene Aniyom, has said. ``Due to the recent lack of ...
The Branch Secretary, Nigerian Red Cross Society, Lagos, Mrs Ijeoma Nweke, has called on Nigerians to be their brother`s keeper and assist the less privileged people within their community. Nweke spoke on Sunday in an interview with the News Age...
The Sudan government on Sunday officially confirmed the death of Sudan's Minister of Guidance and Endowments Ghazi al-Sadiq in a plane crash in Taloudy town in South Kordofan State earlier in the day that claimed 31 lives. "The plane was carry...
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, on Sunday charged leaders to show empathy to their subjects, while the subjects should be obedient to their leaders. The emir gave the charge in his Sallah message which he read in his palace shortly after re...