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FCT Minister Bala Mohammed has urged residents of the territory to spread the gospel of love and peaceful co-existence as they join Christians to observe Easter celebration. In a statement issued by the chief press secretary to the minister, Malam Muha...
Security agencies in Plateau have banned movement of motorcycles in the state from Friday to Tuesday as part of measures to ensure hitch-free Easter celebration. The state Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Ayeni, said in a statement on Friday in Jos that t...
This Prophetic narrative chronicled the case of a king, a magician, a monk and a boy. As for the king, he has attained the peak in hard-heartedness, frowardness and wickedness in that he ordered the murder of his own courtier, and the monk by placing a...
Chief Executive of the Centre for Satellite Technology Development (CSTD), Dr. Spencer Onuh, in this interview with NGOZI OBOH, says arrangements are in top gear to deliver Nigeria's cube satellite(Cubesat), a type of miniaturised satellite for spa...
The vice chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof Joseph Adelabu has been given six months ultimatum to restructure the departments of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Engineering due to their lack of accreditation by the National Universities Com...
The State Security Service (SSS), in collaboration with the Nigerian Army, has arrested five suspects with about 60 explosive devices at Yaranguruza and Burinde areas within the Gombe State capital. Disclosing this to journalists yesterday in Gombe, th...
The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State Chapter, Mr. Victor Bala, yesterday attacked a LEADERSHIP reporter and confiscated his professional tools, including a camera, phone set and tape recorder while the reporter was tryin...
Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has assured corps members posted to the state of their security while urging them to continue to exhibit acts that would promote national unity. The governor, represented by the Secretary to the St...
Apparently disturbed by the resignation of its Chairman, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the People Democratic Party, PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) has expressed shock at the Obasanjo’s sudden resignation as its Chairman. Speaking through the B...
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh has described the recent call by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan over the church building donated to his Otuok...
Governors under auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) have described as worrisome, the huge unconstitutional deductions by the Federal Government from the Federation Account in spite of the increase in pump price. The governors also reiterated...
Barely 24 hours after an armed gang sacked a police station in Amichi, Nnewi South LGA, freeing detained suspects and making away with 14 AK 47 riffles, another gang has killed three police officers in Ukpor police station in the same Nnewi axis. The r...
Katsina State Government has approved the sum of five hundred and eighty-six million naira (N586.4M) as pension payment to the former governors of defunct Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, Alhaji Abba Musa Rimi and the first civilian governor of the st...
An early hour fire outbreak on Thursday at the Gambari Area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital has rendered about 100 residents homeless. The fire outbreak which sources said began at about 4:30am affected a residential building and three shops in the ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jamaátu Nasril Islam (JNI) Kaduna South chapter, have urged Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to empower the teeming youths in the state as a way of reducing youth unemployment. A communiqué jointly signed...