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Former South African President Nelson Mandela is hale and hearty, the Presidency Spokesman, Mac Maharaj, said this in a statement on Saturday. The correspondent reports that the statement issued in johannesburg, became inevitable to quell rum...
A former Nigerian ambassador to Spain and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federal House of Representatives, Dr Kingsley S Ebenyi, has condemned the persistent persecution of Nigerians by the Malaysian police. Ebenyi described as outrageo...
The 2011 season in professional golf could be known for few different things. First, Tiger Woods won again. Granted, it was his own unofficial event with 17 other players in the field, but a win is a win. Woods’ Chevron World Challenge title was ...
Odioama, a Nembe-speaking Ijaw community, is at the fringe of the Atlantic ocean in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. That is where the latest oil spill allegedly took place at a facility belonging to the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas supermajor,...
The deplorable security situation in Kogi State has taken another dimension, following the invasion of Ebiraland by hired assasins, killing innocent citizens at will. Investigation by LEADERSHIP WEEKEND revealed that in the last few weeks, no fewer tha...
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The Federal Government appears to be overwhelmed and unable to respond adequately to the series of bombings in many parts of the country, that have claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians and their property. Against the backdrop of new threats of attac...
By unseemly installments, the dream of a new nation grounded on the egalitarian precepts of its founding nationalists is being destroyed by shadowy crisis entrepreneurs alleging injustice and chanting quirky mantras as they barbarously pluck at the del...
The Minister of state for Niger Delta, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, has said that the bomb explosion on an Islamic School in Sapele, Dalta State which followed after the explosion at St Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla was not an attack to revenge the bomb bla...
Despite the spate of bombings in many parts of the country, which have claimed many lives and property, the federal government has said that it does have an accurate figure of the death toll and those wounded in the attacks. The admittance by the gover...
As Nigerians celebrate another yuletide free of fuel queues, JULIET ALOHAN examines strategic efforts by the NNPC at ensuring hitch-free movement across the country by quashing moves by oil marketers to induce artificial product scarcity. Long q...
The Imo government has concluded arrangements to demolish all buildings where Indian hemp and other hard drugs are sold in the state in 2012. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Anthony Anwuka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ow...
Bloody clashes by rival cult groups in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, have left no fewer than six persons dead. This was just as the newly-posted Commissioner of police, Mr Haruna John, had in a media briefing condemned the spate of cult activities ...
Gov. Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi State yesterday presented a budget proposal of N97.9 billion for the 2012 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly in Kebbi. The N97.9 billion budget estimate is N6.4 billion higher than the 2011 budget of N91.5 billion....
The Sokoto State government yesterday proposed a budget of over N 100.8billion for the 2012 fiscal year . Governor Aliyu Wamakko, who presented the budget proposal to the stateHouse of Assembly at a ceremony in Sokoto, said that the b...