A bomb said to be directed at a police surveillance vehicle in Jalingo, Taraba State has exploded. This is coming fifteen hours to the local government election scheduled for Saturday in the state. The bombers threw the explosive at the van as it made ...
The National Judicial Council has unanimously agreed to pardon the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami. LEADERSHIP gathered that the council will send a letter to President Jonathan, to reinstate him as the President of t...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday said there was no plan by the Muslims in Nigeria to Islamise the country by force. Abubakar made the statement in Abuja at the 2012 national symposium of Nasrul-lahil-l- fatih Society of Ni...
Governors of the 36 states of the federation yesterday unanimously endorsed the plan by the federal government to increase electricity tariff across the country by June this year. This was also the decision taken at the National Economic Council (NEC) ...
The Kano State Police Command on Tuesday discovered three bombs planted at the old campus of Bayero University, Kano following a tip-off. LEADERSHIP gathered that the bombs were found hidden at the faculty of law and faculty of sciences respectively. T...
The Lagos State government has sacked all striking medical doctors in the state. This is following the doctors’ refusal to end their strike, which has lasted for over two weeks. The doctors proceeded on an indefinite strike on April 24 after they...
The activities of the Boko Haram sect have attracted another international condemnation as top members of the United States Congress warned that the federal government should take a decisive action on the deadly issue that has caused international emba...
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 ...
Former minister of defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), has clarified his comment on the dire situation of some states in the North which he made during the 50th Birthday celebration of the Chairman of LEADERSHIP Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah,...
The extremist group, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihadl, popularly called Boko Haram, today named more media houses and staff as targets of their attack. In an 18 minutes video, the group threatened to attack more media houses, naming ...
Former Minister of Defence, General T Y. Danjuma yesterday painted a very gloomy picture of the Nigeria security situation declaring succinctly that the "country is on fire", but was optimistic that the country would survive it. Danjuma as bl...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday urged Nigerians to be ready for another determined protest, over the fuel subsidy scam. Soyinka said at a press conference organised by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) in Lagos that revelations from the subsid...
Mr Umar Waziri, the Red Cross Information Coordinator in Taraba, has confirmed that 11 people died in the bomb attack at the premises of the state Ministry of Finance in Jalingo on Monday. ``We can confirm that 11 people were killed. 10 people died at ...
An early morning attack during catholic mass in the heart of Bayero University Kano has left at least 18 people dead. Among the victims of the attack are Professors Jerome Ayodele of the Chemistry Department and Andrew Leo of Library Science ...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday towed a different part from his National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, when he disagreed with him out-rightly on a statement credited to him in the media in which he blamed udemocrati...