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Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, has donated food items and an undisclosed sums of money to the families of the victims of last Sunday’s attack which claimed nine lives in the Zango area of Bauchi metropolis. The money and food items according ...
The Federal Fire Service (FFS) has cautioned Nigerians not to build houses in flood-prone areas and waterways in order to avoid flood disasters and other related incidents. Speaking yesterday at a three-day workshop for the Controller-General and...
Mobilisation of part-time graduates by some corps producing institutions for service has been identified as one of the challenges that has compounded the process of mobilising legitimate graduates for the one year National Youth Service. This, has impa...
Governor of Borno State and former lecturer, University of Maiduguri, Dr. Kashim Shettima, delivered this paper as the keynote speaker at the 2012 Leadership Annual Conference/Awards organised by LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group yesterday in Abuja All...
Children’s diets are always far from being balanced especially when they are allowed to eat alone. Engaging in communal eating by families usually signifies that there is a kind of bond that holds them together. Apart from this reason, when famil...
As part of plans to evolve more dynamic ways of combating graft in the country, the three major anti-corruption agencies, namely ;the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(IC...
Two suspected drug traffickers have been caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for concealing 2.560kg of cocaine in their travel luggage by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The suspects, Emole Kennedy Uka, 32, ...
The Director-General, Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Vincent Aquah, yesterday disclosed that water from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon has displaced more than 12, 000 people in the state, while one person was reported...
Two trailer loads of human cargo, suspected to be insane people were yesterday intercepted at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State. LEADERSHIP gathered that those conveying the lunatics had attempted to off-load the content of the trailer at the busy Up...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s last-minute winner gave Real Madrid a thrilling victory over Manchester City in a pulsating Champions League clash at the Bernabeu. City took a shock lead through Edin Dzeko’s breakaway goal. Marcelo equalised with a def...
Globacom on yesterday in Abuja presented a cheque of three hundred and fifty million naira (N350m) to the Nigerian Football Federation as the five-year sponsorship deal it signed with the Federation last year entered the second season. Presenting the c...
Recipient of LEADERSHIP sports person of the year 2011 award and African number one badminton star, Ifraimu Bulus Jimkan has cautioned Nigerians, specially sportsmen and women not to get carried away by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s continu...
The Chairperson of the Nigeria Women League Board, Mrs Dilichukwu Onyedinma has appreciated President Goodluck Jonathan for the financial reward he extended to the National Women U-20 team (Falconets). The players were rewarded with cash gift of N1m ea...
David Haye is keen to regain a British boxing licence as he continues to pursue a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Haye fought Dereck Chisora under the auspices of the Luxembourg Boxing Federation in July because Chisora’s Br...
Two women suspected to be human traffickers have been arrested by a vigilante group at the Etim Edem motor park in Calabar Municipality. The suspects were reportedly chasing two underage girls in the park in an attempt to re-capture them after the girl...