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The maiden edition of Oba Okunade Sijuwade annual leadership lecture and award ceremony will be held at Ile-Ife, Osun State, this Saturday. The event, which is being put together by Ife Business School will hold at Aquarium events Centre, Parakin, Obal...
The crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly is far from over,as one of the factional groups yesterday flouted the directive of the national assembly,holding session at the assembly complex. LEADERSHIP gathered that 11 out of the 12 members of t...
Piqued by the recent bomb blast at Saint Rita Catholic Church in Kaduna state which killed over fifteen people and left several others injured, the Plateau State commissioner of police Emmanuel Dipo Ayeni has called on religious leaders and...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has condemned the recent murder of about 20 villagers in Kaboro, Zamfara State, even as it condemned the federal government for failing in delivering the first service to the people - that of secur...
Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has set up a seven-man committee that would work out modalities for the provision of relief and rehabilitation to those affected by the recent flood in the state. The governor’s action followed the rel...
Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has pledged to donate part of the proceeds from the public presentation of her book, “Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria”, to flood victims acros...
The federal government, yesterday, warned the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme SURE-P committee to avoid corrupt practices that would hamper the success of the scheme Speaking when he inaugurated states implementation committees of commun...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has cast aspersion on the present constitutional review process saying it is chaotic, devoid of agenda or known methodology and that it lacks transparency. The NBA president, Chief Okey Wali (SAN) who said this while ...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday released seven names of casualties of the Sunday church explosion which occurred at St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Ungwar yero, Malali, Kaduna. This is just as survivors of the attack continu...
A Nigerian man, Osazua Osalese, has been sentenced to prison for 20 years in the United Kingdom after he was found guilty of human trafficking. Osolase, 42, from Gravesend, Kent, was said to have carried out “juju” (witchcraft) on teenage g...
At least six persons have been feared killed and seven others seriously injured when gunmen suspected to be Fulani mercenaries stormed a local bar, popularly called Burukutu joint, at Gindin Akwati in Gashish distric...
As hardship continues to bite harder following the persistence fuel scarcity in parts of the country, residents of Kaduna and Osun states are now contending with high price of petroleum product as major marketers have taken advantage of the scarcity to...
An Abuja-based Danish company, Gurundfos, yesterday donated relief materials worth over N10 million to flood victims across the country to ameliorate their plight in the Internally Displayed Persons’ (IDP) camps. The company through its partner, ...
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Muhammad Usman, in this interview with MIDAT JOSEPH, speaks on the effort the state government is making to revamp education in the state. He also speaks on the proliferation of illegal sc...
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi picked twenty four home based Eagles for the international friendly against Venezuela. The national team will next week begin earnest preparations for the CAN 2013 Nations Cup, with the 24 home-based players to converge...