Omuokere-Aluu community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, where four male students of the University of Port Harcourt were killed by an angry mob is now a ghost town. This was just as police arrested five more suspects in connection wit...
A new twist has emerged in the Bakassi struggle as Efik Kingdom is said to be making plans to join forces with Southern Cameroon to form an independent nation. The move is coming even as the federal government foreclosed the review of the International...
The Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Mohammed Seidu, has said that the Niger-Benue Confluence (Lokoja) flooding was as a result of the contravention of the natural boundary laws by the communities. Seidu ...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has urged all the people in the state not to be afraid but to go about their lawful businesses as government would not relent in ensuring their safety. Aliyu who was speaking based on the recent at...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, inaugurated the federal government delegation to this year’s Christian pilgrimage operation; with a note of warning to Christian pilgrims shun any actions that are capable of denting the country’s ima...
The Executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB), Mallam Abdulkarim Mohammed, has attributed the stunted development in the primary education system to perennial systemic corruption in government and their external ...
The Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam has canvassed increased trade and investment among African countries in other to improve the continents economy. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday Governor Suswam stated that real developm...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu saying that Nigeria’s education was on the decline and called on government at all levels to take practical steps to address the situation. Aliyu who stated this yesterday at Gover...
The Manager of the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Lawal, said yesterday that more than 14,346 intending pilgrims had been airlifted to Saudi Arabia for this year’s hajj. Lawal told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
The former Secretary General of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Engr. Samuel Lando Salifu has described the late Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA) Dr. Abdul-lateef Adegbite as a rare breed who mixed intelligenc...
Chief Edwin Clark, an elder statesman, on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to tackling environmental pollution and development in the Niger Delta. Clark made the call in Abuja while presenting a paper titled: ``The PIB a...
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Kano, Mr Shehu Zaki, on Wednesday confirmed that gunmen killed two of its officers and injured one other on Madobi Road in Kano. Zaki made the confirmation in an interview with the News Agen...
The police in Akure on Wednesday arraigned two men, Ajayi Olalekan and Ajayi Francis, in court over an alleged threat to the lives of police officers at a station in Akure. The accused persons, who were arraigned before Chief Magistrate Adejoke Adegoro...
The Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), a human rights group, on Wednesday in Lagos appealed to the Federal Government to abolish death penalty. Mr Chino Obiagwu, National Coordinator, LEDAP, made the appeal during a media briefing to mark th...
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Thursday begin the first-phase of an inspection tour of states affected by the floods. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public...