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The Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra, Chief Mike Kwento, has expressed worry over the spate of bombings in some parts of the country. Kwento, in Awka on Wednesday, said that the situation was giving the country a bad i...
Alhaji Muktari Mapia, a PDP chieftain in Sokoto State, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to organise a national security summit to find a lasting solution to the current killings in the country. Mapia said in Sokoto on Wednesday that such summi...
Dr Folashade Oluwole, a Senior Registrar at the Nephrology and Geriatrics Unit, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, has advocated for the passage of an Elders Rights Act by the National Assembly to cater for the aged. She made the ca...
Sequel to allegations of hosting and bankrolling the deadly activities of the radical Islamist Terrorist group, Boko Haram, Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, Thursday, January 26, 2012 stated that the group has no operational base in his state. Yuguda...
The British High Commission in Nigeria yesterday stated that the Boko Haram sect has portends a grave danger to British interest and the global family. The Deputy High Commissioner, of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Giles Lever who stated ...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) yesterday sealed off ten petrol stations in Kaduna State for involving in sharp practices ranging from diversion and selling of fuel above the price of 97 naira. LEADERSHIP gathered that seven of the sealed f...
Election into the top positions of the AU Commission is expected to dominate proceedings at the next AU Summit. African Heads of State and Government would from January 29 to 30, meet in Addis Ababa for their biennial Summit. However, during the two-da...
The UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) says Nigeria’s energy consumption can be reduced drastically if households use energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. This was contained in the 2011 GEF Project Report signed by Etiosa Uyigue, the Nationa...
Coaches at the ongoing All Stars Female Football Championship on Wednesday in Lagos advised parents to encourage their wards to take to sports to enhance their well being. The coaches said the combination of education with sports was an added advantage...
A Kaduna-based legal practitioner, Yahaya Mahmood (SAN) yesterday said the removal of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, was not the end of the matter as he could not be solely responsible for recent tragic happenings across Nigeria. In a c...
Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Kawu Sumaila (ANPP, Kano) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar as the acting new Inspector-General of Police. In a statement iss...
Former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, has urged a Fedral High Court in Lagos not to accede to the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, to have his case transferred from Justice Charles Achibong t...
Benue State Governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam has solicited for the maximum cooperation of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to enable the Federal Government tackle the activities of Boko Haram in the country. Suswam, who made t...
Months after the April post-Presidential violence that rocked Kaduna State, the Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa is still lamenting that the incident set the State back in terms of development. He said that the“the violence has robbed the State o...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the removal of subsidy on fuel by the Federal Government was based on an agreement the government signed with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) under former President Olusegun Obasanjo to keep t...