Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in this interview speaks to BAYO OLADEJI over the feud between General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida. Excerpts. Sir, you issued a statement last Sunday taking a position on IBB/OBJ feud. But you later mad...
Recently, the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Capt. Adebayo Araba, addressed the media in Zaria where he spoke about the milestones recorded by the college, the planned self-sustaining strategy of the institution as well a...
Any nation without infrastructural facilities denies its citizens certain socio-economic rights, and such a city will suffer setbacks in carrying out its statutory responsibilities. CHIKA OKEKE writes on the absence of amenities in the satellite towns ...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), founded in 1978 following a merger of the Nigerian Trade Union Congress (NTUC), Labour Unity Front (LUF), United Labour Congress (ULC) and Nigerian Workers’ Council (NWC), is witnessing its biggest challenge ye...
The Federal Ministry of Works has recently begun works on the dilapidated Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, the nation’s main seaports road after series of media reports and public outcry. However, amidst government’s denial, insider information rev...
Recent events in Borno State have put a huge question mark on the state’s acronym as the “Home of Peace” The Boko Haram insurgency has shattered the peace of the state. In this interview with LEADERSHIP editors, the commissioner...
Senator Ahmed Muktar Aruwa served two terms at the Senate and was the Kaduna State governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the last general elections. In this interview with ISAIAH BENJAMIN he says it was President Goodl...
Joseph Waku is a former senator in the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003. In this interview with LEADERSHIP’s Bureau Chief in the United States, ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, he speaks on the controversial single term tenure and other national issue...
Over 1000 members of the painted Commercial Taxi Drivers Association Abuja ( OTDAA), took a decision during a general congress meeting held at Wuse zone 6, Abuja, to embark on a peaceful protest to express their grievances over the newly introduc...
Senator Dahiru Kuta (PDP, Niger East) is a radical, yet unassuming politician. He had always been in the opposition in his home state until of recent when he found himself as member of the ruling party. He single-handedly sponsored a private Bill that ...
For those who ask this question the answer is simple; Yes and no, it all depends on how one looks at it since relationships that start online are just like those that start through mutual friends, a chance encounter, a parent set up, meeting at work or...
Play is a very essential part of a child’s development. Despite this, many parents in this part of the world see it as a distraction to their child’s learning. RALIAT AHMED writes on the many benefits play holds for children. All work and n...
Three years ago, precisely on August 14, 2008, 11.00am, Nigerian government handed over Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroon following a ruling by the the International Court of Justice at the Hague, The Netherlands. The victims of that singular action have ...
Ishaka Bawa is the chief whip of the House of Representatives. In this interview with TORDUE SALEM, the Taraba State-born lawmaker, who represents Wukari/Ibi federal constituency, speaks on the revocation of licenses of banks by the CBN, the call by fo...
Aliyu Attah is a former Inspector-General of Police. In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, he speaks on: the desirability of state police, the reform the police, the rotation of political offices, his tenure as police boss, and other issues of national...