The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has said that it was counting on ``massive Igbo votes’’ to clinch the Plateau North senatorial seat in the by-election slated for Oct. 6, this year. The state Chairman of the pa...
Cairo criminal court has sentenced Egypt's former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazeif to three years imprisonment for illegal gains, state media reported on Thursday. The court also fined him 1.48 million U.S. dollars. Nazeif, the last Prime Minister durin...
An Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded at the Kirikiri Prisons, a commercial motorcyclist who pleaded guilty to stealing a motorcycle . Magistrate Olagbegi Adelabu remanded Musa Liadi (27), after he admitted that he stol...
A Jos Area Court on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old student, Mustapha Shuaibu, of Government Secondary School, Dass, Bauchi State, to one month imprisonment or an option of N1,000 fine for criminal misappropriation and t...
The Kwara Government said on Thursday that it would close down illegal schools in the state in order to re-position the standard of education. Alhaji Saka Onimago, Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, told the News Agency...
Dr Sam Agbogun, the Managing Director of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Ltd (NELMCO), said the company would resolve the more than 300 litigations against PHCN before its privatisation. Agbogun told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) o...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will intensify efforts at protecting its oil pipelines through effective collaboration with security agencies to check vandalism. Mr Fidel Pepple, the acting Group General Manager (Pu...
A salesgirl, Abidemi Idowu, 27, was on Thursday docked at a Somolu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with stealing N1.2 million belonging to her employer. Idowu, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecutor, ASP Akinlebi Adeg...
Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom says security is the key to national development. Akpabio said this in Uyo when members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors paid him a courtesy visit. The editors were in Uyo for the 8th All Nigeria Editors’ C...
The Delta State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Kingsley Eze Emu, in this interview with LEADERSHIP’S KOLA NIYI-EKE, speaks about the state’s government strategies to create employment for school leavers. He also speaks on the conte...
The Federal Governemnt has approved the inclusion of military retirees and their immediate families in the National Health Insurance Scheme’s (NHIS). The Federal Executive Council (FEC) gave the approval at its meeting yesterday chaired by ...
Nigeria needs 1,320,135 teachers to meet the demands of basic education by 2015, the Executive Secretary of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof. Mohammed Ibn Junaid, has said. He asserted that the nation needs to produce a ...
The head of Libya's National Congress on Wednesday blamed the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, in which the U.S. ambassador and three others were killed, on loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi. ``This cowardly deed is an epis...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the readmission of Dr. Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, into the party. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Olisa Metuh, th...
The Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Kano State, Dr Brasca Ifeadi, has warned officers of the command against ``illegal operations''. He gave the warning on Wednesday while decorating 124 newly promoted officers wi...