The director-general, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency(NOSDRA), Mr. Peter Nduka, has disclosed that pipeline vandals and crude oil thieves in the Niger Delta are aided and protected by members of the armed forces. Nduka made the revelat...
Dr Dalhatu Tafida, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK confirmed in London on Saturday that Ikemba Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, is dead. “A member of the family just called to tell me,’’ Tafida said in a telephone interview with the N...
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted a consignment of military uniforms concealed in a luggage of a pilgrim returning from Saudi Arabia. The consignment consists of 23 sets of air force and army uniforms. The customs zo...
Members of the Jama’atul Ahlil Sunna lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, warned that it would, in a few days, embark on massive bombings of political party offices across thecountry to correct the impression that they are agents of...
In pursuit of quality education for Nigeria’s teeming students, Baze University whose motto is ‘Learn, to Live’ yesterday in a well-attended ceremony matriculated its second batch of students. The occasion was graced by former head of...
For the benefit of those who appear ignorant about the business of journalism and newspapering, we advise that troubled government officials should face their problems squarely and not pick a quarrel with the newspaper. This advice has been prompted by...
At least 20 people including a serving police officer and his family members were feared killed in Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau State following renewed violence that broke out Wednesday night between the natives and Fulani herdsmen.&nbs...
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on his 65th birthday today. In a letter of felicitation which he personally signed and released to Atiku Media Office in Abuja yesterday, Jonathan pray...
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the former Premier of the defunct Northern Region and the Sardauna of Sokoto, the late Sir Ahmadu Bello, as a man whose outstanding life was worthy of emulation. Speaking at the 35th ann...
A High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay popular comedian Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe the sum of N25 million for unlawful arrest and detention. The ruling was given on Thursday by Justice Yet...
President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved Mrs. Farida Waziri of her job as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). LEADERSHIP gathered that her removal is shrouded in controversy, as her tenure is due to expire by June next year...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja yesterday ordered Senator Ali Mohammed Ndume to be remanded in the State Security Service (SSS) custody after he pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge bordering on breach of official trus...
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday disclosed that Nigeria now produced 2.6 million barrels of crude oil per day, out of which 670,000 barrels are from the deep offshore. Before now, the production level stood ...
The Court of Appeal in Lagos yesterday acquitted and discharged a former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bello Lafiaji and his ex-special assistant, Usman Amali. In the judgment delivered by Justice Moham...
Thirty-six governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) yesterday held a crucial meeting that lasted over two hours before some of them (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors) headed to Aso Rock Presidential Villa for a meeting ...