The Police in Ondo State on Monday confirmed that three persons died in an accident on Okitipupa-Ore road in Okitipupa Local Government Area. Mr Titilola Lasisi, the Divisional Police Officer in Okitipupa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) t...
Mr Gyang Pwajok, the Plateau Government’s Chief of Staff, who resigned last week, is to contest the Plateau North senatorial by-elections to replace the late Sen. Gyang Dantong. ``Yes, I am in the race for the Senate seat and I...
Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) on Monday began the clean-up of Ibeno coastline contaminated by an oil spill reported on Aug. 13. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the oil company engaged 40 youths from the communities affected by...
The police in Yobe on Monday said that a section of Damagum Primary School in Damagum Local Government Area was gutted by fire from suspected explosions in the area. Mr Toyin Gbadegeshin, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, m...
South Africa began a period of mourning on Monday to commemorate the lives of South Africans who have died violently, especially the 44 people killed in incidents at Marikana, North West. President Jacob Zuma declared a period of national mourning from...
Residents around Oko Community in Edo State were woken up by yesterday by heavy shooting and explosions at the medium prisons which forced many families to abandon their homes. A source confirmed to LEADERSHIP that at about 1:30am armed men used...
President of the Civil Right Congress (CRC), Comrade Shehu Sani, has faulted the claim of the ongoing dialogue between the federal government and the members of the Boko Haram sect in Saudi Arabia, saying that the claim is a ploy by the fe...
The streets in Abuja were yesterday deserted with little vehicular movement as Muslims celebrated the Eid-el-Fitr. This was just as commuters were stranded at various bus stops in the city, with no vehicles to convey them to their destinations, ...
By John Ainofenokhai The new shape and texture of politics in Edo State have presented a positive challenge which politicians in other states must accept: a challenge of commitment to state interest as amply demonstrated by the leadershi...
Residents around Oko Community were woken up by heavy Shooting and explosions which occurred at the medium Prisons in the early hours of Sunday, forcing many families to abandon their homes. Armed men according to sources confirmed ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed hope that with unity and peace, what Nigeria passes through as a nation can only be overcome by prayers. "What we are passing through as nation can be overcome with pra...
The Olusegun Mimiko Campaign Organisation on Sunday in Akure felicitated with Muslims in Ondo as they marked the Eid-el-Fitri celebrations, the end of the Ramadam fast.. The organisation admonished them to imbibe the lessons and values...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday reiterated the call for Nigerians to embrace peace and remain united for any meaningful development to take place. The president spoke when a delegation of Muslims in the FCT, led by Vice- President Namadi Sambo, p...
Farmers in Edo have decried the unavailability of fertilizers for their use, in spite of the operation of e-wallet system of distribution of the commodity as recently introduced by Federal Government. They lamented that they had been withou...
Sen. Bala Mohammed, the Minister of the FCT, says the Federal Government is coming up with a social housing scheme to ameliorate the hardship of those affected by the demolition in the territory. Mohammed disclosed this on Sunday, after a Sallah...