Mr Emmanuel Ayeni, the Plateau Commissioner of Police, has confirmed that  five persons were killed and many others injured in a midnight attack in Riyom on Tuesday. Riyom is the headquarters of Riyom Local Government of Plateau. ``There wa...

  An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Wednesday remanded one Charles Ikeji, 40, in prison for allegedly raping his daughter and a house maid. The police arraigned Ikeji, a resident of Angwan Gude, in Kuje, FCT, on April 16 on a one-count ch...

  The Chief Imam, Mararaba Mosque in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State,  Alhaji Ali Adamu, has commended the Federal Government for the introduction of the Almajiri Model Schools. Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Mara...

  The Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD) on Wednesday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that its plan to prosecute electoral offenders was implemented without further delay. Malam Danjum...

Six  people have been killed and 10 injured in two separate attacks in Plateau State  - one targeting football fans, officials have said. ?Unknown gunmen shot dead five villagers in an overnight attack on Rim, 50km (30 miles) south of Jos i...

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has stated that Gen Muhammadu Buhari remains a quintessential patriot in Nigeria. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP, the party stated that the perspicacity of Gen Buhari’s statement recently ov...

The controversy over who is to represent the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the appeal by Prince John Emeka, challenging the propriety of the party’s authentic winner of the Anambra North Senatorial poll yesterday stalled definite hearing of t...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has faulted a statement credited to Osun State Chapter of the People’s Democractic Party (PDP), condemning him for paying a courtesy visit to Governor Rauf Aregbesola last Sa...

A former Special Assistant to the Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, on Political matters, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmadu yesterday said that the  speculation  that the Vice President, Namadi Sambo’s original state of origin was Edo S...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday urged the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to seek ways of generating funds internally to free itself from the influence of money bags. The President gave the advice in Abuja at a forum with the n...

The Senate Committee on Aviation has directed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to immediately set up service stations at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The committee also directed that similar action be carried out in other air...

Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the Director-General, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), says the agency will acquire a 4.9 million dollar bio-metric data capturing machine for hotel staff in Nigeria. Runsewe disclosed this at a meeting with mem...

The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Sule, on Tuesday announced the discovery of one wild polio virus in the state after three years of virus-free status. He, however, described the discovery as `imported polio.'' Sule told newsm...

Malam sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Central Bank Governor, has attributed the challenges witnessed with electronic transfer on cash less policy to low bandwidth by the telecom operators. Sanusi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...

The Chairman of the Kwara chapter of ALGON, Dr Adebayo Ishola, says the call for the scrapping of local government administration in Nigeria is ``a myopic view.’’ Ishola, who is also the chairman of Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwa...