Ahead of the October Governorship election in Ondo State, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanaga Tukur, has waded into the crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the party. Since the nomination of the former Nati...
As the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) celebrates 14 years of existence as a political party on Friday, Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has declared that the party was leading Nigeria in the right direction. In a statement issue...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as illegal, unconstitutional and indefensible the $40 million dollars being paid annually to some ex- militants ostensibly to guard the country’s pipelines. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterd...
A group under the aegis of Arewa Youth Coalition (AYC) has condemned in strong terms the recent media attack on the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, just as it said that such attack was uncalled for. A statement signed and made available to...
Policymakers in the cities of Nigeria and other African countries must implement green measures to make sure that growing urban areas can meet the increasing demand for food, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Food and Agric...
Five months after he resigned as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Ogun State chapter of the party has initiated moves to hold a grand civic reception for former President, Chief Olusegu...
An early morning inferno, yesterday, gutted two rooms at the palace of the Emir of Katsina with items worth millions of naira including jewelries allegedly destroyed. It was gathered that the fire occurred around 3:15 am and lasted hours as it wa...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has called on the federal government to arrest, immediately, the former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Andy Uba, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Chibuike Achigbu and charge...
The State Security Service (SSS) was yesterday the subject of an Associated Press (AP) report claiming that personal details of more than 60 of its operatives including its Director General, Mr Ita Ekperyong had been leaked to the internet through unid...
A section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba in Lagos State went up in flame yesterday evening throwing Management and patients on admission into panic. The fire which LEADERSHIP learnt started around 7.30 pm was said to h...
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has taken gold for Nigeria in the men’s -48kg powerlifting with a world record lift of 180kg. Adesokan was a full 10kg ahead of silver medallist Vladimir Balynedc of Russia, while Taha Abdelmagid of Egypt claimed b...
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo, Japan
The out-going President, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), on Thursday criticised the plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria to introduce N5,000 notes. In a speech in Abuja at the Annual General Conference of the association, Daudu sa...
Yakubu Adesokan of Nigeria this afternoon bettered his World Record set in qualifying to take the first Powerlifting gold of the London 2012 Paralympics Games in the Men’s 48kg with a lift of 180kg.
The Federal Government has designated Anambra as an oil-bearing state in the country. President Goodluck Jonathan made the pronouncement on Thursday while inaugurating Orient Petroleum Resources Plc at Aguleri-Otu in the Anambra East Local Govern...