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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...
An 18-year-old boy narrowly escaped being lynched yesterday by an angry mob for allegedly trying to kidnap some school children in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The incident which occurred at Amolaso area of the ancient town, according to an eye witness accoun...
Five additional students of Divine Wisdom Nursery and Primary School, Egbeda in Oyo State, yesterday lost their lives, bringing the casualty figure to eight the number of those who had died during a motor accident which occurred on Wednesday some kilom...
Security Operatives on Thursday seized 51 rocket launchers in a house in Barunde area of Gombe metropolis being used to manufacture rockets and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the raid, carried out by ...
Mali's military junta, worried that about 40 political parties and civil society organisations in the country have shunned its national convention, Thursday postponed the dialogue. According to a statement, issued by the National Committee for the ...