The Police Command in Bayelsa on Monday confirmed the kidnap of a 60-yeard community leader, Chief Bertrand Douglas of Ekpekiri community. Douglas, a renowned geologist, was kidnapped on Sunday by armed gunmen in his country home in Ekpekiri. The comma...
Sen. Nenadi Usman, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Investment on Monday expressed optimism that the National Assembly would soon pass the Nigerian Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) bill. Usman disclosed this in Abuja at a one-day stakeholders’ interacti...
The Police Command in Kano State on Monday warned against the use of knockout and other fireworks in the state. The warning was issued by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Charge of Sabon- Gari, Mr Shuaibu Bello, a Chief Superintendent of Police, ...
The House of Representatives Committee on Power has decried zero allocation to electricity generation and distribution companies in the 2013 budget estimates. Rep. Patrick Ikhariale ( PDP-Edo), the Chairman of the committee, said this at a news confere...
Three men posing as an art teacher and two students stole paintings worth about two million dollars in South Africa's most celebrated Art Museum in a brazen day-time robbery. The three paid an entrance fee of over $1 each on Sunday and asked a muse...
The ECOWAS Commission on Monday in Abuja donated 382,000 dollars (about N61 million) to assist flood victims in Nigeria. ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Quedraogo, who presented the cheque to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, said...
A total of 176 countries on Monday adopted what WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called a ``game-changing’’ global agreement to combat illegal tobacco trade. The pact was ratified at a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, at the WHO's Frame...
The Nigerian Ambassador to Mali, Mr Iliya Nuhu, has raised the alarm over the high rate of trafficking of Nigerian girls to the West African country. Nuhu said in Bamako, the Malian capital, that the problem had grown in ‘magnitude and soph...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday insisted that Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto state must publicly apologise to the congress for physically assaulting a staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in his village. National President of ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday it has concluded arrangements to arraign seven more suspects in the on going trial of individuals and organisations implicated by investigations into the subsidy regime on imported fuel...
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, HOSG, at the end of its Extra- Ordinary Summit in Abuja, yesterday said that the use of force in Mali may be indispensable in order to dismantle terrorist...
A group, Concerned Benue Citizens Coalition (G10), has described as undemocratic the forceful resignation of the speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, David Iorhemba, and said that the development was unhealthy for the progress of the state. Na...
The Niger State Government has approved the release of the sum of N110 million as counterpart fund for the commencement of the Tax Identification Number (TIN) project in the next fiscal year. The Governor, Dr Mu’azu Bbangida Aliyu represented by ...
Chairman Nigeria Nationwide League and Nigeria Football Federation board member, Ahmad Muazu Kawu has said at no time did he attack the board of the football federation in his attack at the secretariat of the federation. Kawu who apologized to his coll...
The government of Sokoto State has accepted to host the Nigeria Nationwide League Annual General Assembly and its other end of year programmes. Disclosing this to LEADERSHIP SPORTS, Chairman of the Nationwide League formerly known as the Amateur League...