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 ...
Chief James Ibori, the convicted former governor of Delta State, has been transferred to a maximum-security prison, the Worcestershire Long Lartin Prison outside London. According to reports, United Kingdom prison officials in the United Kingdom confir...
Over 1,000 families across seven local government areas in Southern Plateau have been rendered homeless as the worst flood witnessed in 50 years raged through for a second day yesterday washing away homesteads, bridges, farmlands and livestock. The flo...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that scores of people have been declared missing in the aftermath of the flood that cut off roads and destroyed the Shendam Bridge. The agency added that the scope of its mandate is limited to on...
The Plateau State government has said that it has begun an assessment tour of the flooded areas in the state with a view of providing succour to the victims. The Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr. Pam Ayuba, stated this yesterday. He also ...
The man who started the assault on a photojournalist with LEADERSHIP newspaper, Mr. Benedict Uwalaka, last Thursday has been arrested by the police. He showed up at a Lagos police station yesterday morning after the police launched a manhunt for him. T...
Survivors of the Plateau flood which claimed over twenty-eight lives last Sunday have appealed for urgent assistance from the government and philanthropists as they struggle to overcome the disaster. According to a traditional ruler in the area, the Lo...
Two persons suspected to be suicide bombers have been killed by their own bombs in Kaduna metropolis. The bomb exploded at Abakpa, along Ali Akilu road. Although details are still sketchy, LEADERSHIP gathered that the bombers who were riding motorcycle...
United States Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton has implored President Goodluck Jonathan to take the tough decisions that were needed in tackling insecurity and economic problems in the country and gain the full support of the US in fighting the...
A photojournalist with LEADERSHIP Newspaper, Mr. Benedict Uwalaka was on Thursday brutalized at the premises of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH). Uwalaka was at the hospital to cover the release of corpses of victims of the recent...
The governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, said yesterday that God revealed to him that the fratricidal crisis in the state was ‘‘because of their sins.’’ The governor said this when he led other security chiefs to visit Riy...
Retired archbishop of Lagos His Eminence Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie has expressed grave worry on the quality of leaders in the country. They are visionless and have therefore failed the country, he said. The versatile clergyman, who spoke at the ...
Notwithstanding last Wednesday’s deadline set by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) for the submission of bid document for Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s generating companies (GENCOs) and the distribution companies (DISCOs), some o...
A 23 year-old private security operative has taken his own life over fear that he would undergo arrest and possible detention in a police station. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the man whose name was given as Solomon from Kaduna State had been accused ...
Pirates suspected to be Nigerians yesterday attacked a Dutch oil vessel, killing two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) said. The pirates stormed the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, an area that h...