The purported leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist sect in Nigeria, has denied government statements that the group is involved in peace talks and has said its spokesman Abu Qaqa has been captured by security forces. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan...
At least 20 people, mostly students, have been killed by unknown gunmen in Mubi, north-eastern Nigeria, a police source has told the BBC. The attack happened at a student hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic Mubi campus, the source said. One Mubi r...
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal, States and Local Governments and all leaders in Nigeria to work harder to return Nigeria to economic growth, sustenance as well as strengthen national unity. The Senate made the call following th...
A Beninoise cook, Guy Kouton, was on Tuesday arraigned for allegedly stealing his employer’s jewellery valued at N15 million. Kouton, 45, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and theft before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. T...
An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 17-year-old student of Mpape Junction, Abuja, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing. Magistrate Hauwa Aliyu also advised the convict to desist from committing crime, and warned t...
Mr. Obiefule Dennis, the FCT Commandant, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has advised people to abstain from the use of illicit drugs to avoid health complications. Dennis told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja that abstin...
Mr Dairus Ishaku, the Minister of State for Power, has directed that the transformers and power equipment in PHCN central stores in Lagos be distributed to communities whose transformers have been damaged. A statement signed by Mrs Patricia Deworitshe,...
Intense but discreet moves are ongoing among prominent Muslims clerics to replace the late secretary-general of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Dr. Lateef Adegbite. Sources within the council told LEADERSHIP in a telephone inte...
There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan may drop the nation’s service chiefs this Friday, following the impending retirement ofthe incumbent Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal OluseyiPetinrin after thirty-five y...
The House of Representatives is set to launch a probe into the payment of N140.9billion in debts by oil mogul, Femi Otedola to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The Lower House yesterday insisted that the transaction was done in &ldq...
President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday urged Nigerians to emulate the country’s founding fathers, especially their indomitable spirit. Senator Mark, who made this call at a special church service to mark the 52nd independence anni...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, 63, shares the October 1 birthday with Nigeria. In this interview with CHIKA OTUCHIKERE, the former Governor of Yobe State says that successive leaders have ...
Screening of prospective participants for West Africa’s biggest soccer reality television show, the Glo Soccer Academy, will begin October 8, 2012 in Kumasi. Glo said all applicants in Kumasi and environs would be screened at the Paa Joe Stadium,...
It was good and the not too good news on Monday morning when the national team; Super Eagles resumed training for the October 13 duel against the Lone Star of Liberia in Calabar. As expected all the players invited save for the Sunshine Stars duo of Iz...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has again insisted that there will be no partiality between home-based stars and those based abroad in the selection of the final team that will face Liberia, October 13 in Calabar. “I know that 1...