Tension is high in Enugu following the abduction of the Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of science and Technology(ESUT), Professor Cyprian Onyeji. LEADERSHIP gathered that the academic was allegedly ambushed and kidnapped at the entrance ...
Rescuers have found bodies of two Ugandan military airmen at the wreckage of one of three attack helicopters that came down high on the slopes of Mount Kenya on Sunday. A mountain rescue leader announced the discovery of the two bodies on Tuesday. The ...
An Egyptian court is to hear the first legal challenge to a decree issued by Islamist President Mohamed Morsi that removed curbs on his powers imposed by the army. The challenge was filed in Egypt's administrative court by Mohamed Salem, a lawyer w...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) are to embark on a monitoring visit to state-owned universities to ensure compliance with admission regulations. Prof. Julius Okojie, the Executive Secret...
Over 1,000 families across seven local government areas in Southern Plateau have been rendered homeless as the worst flood witnessed in 50 years raged through for a second day yesterday washing away homesteads, bridges, farmlands and livestock. The flo...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that scores of people have been declared missing in the aftermath of the flood that cut off roads and destroyed the Shendam Bridge. The agency added that the scope of its mandate is limited to on...
The Plateau State government has said that it has begun an assessment tour of the flooded areas in the state with a view of providing succour to the victims. The Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr. Pam Ayuba, stated this yesterday. He also ...
The man who started the assault on a photojournalist with LEADERSHIP newspaper, Mr. Benedict Uwalaka, last Thursday has been arrested by the police. He showed up at a Lagos police station yesterday morning after the police launched a manhunt for him. T...
Survivors of the Plateau flood which claimed over twenty-eight lives last Sunday have appealed for urgent assistance from the government and philanthropists as they struggle to overcome the disaster. According to a traditional ruler in the area, the Lo...
The fear of most residents of Abuja who are not car owners is that of boarding vehicles to their various destinations within the city and not knowing who the driver or the other passengers of the vehicles are. The fear has grown recently with th...
Fears are rife that if urgent steps are not taken, there may be food scarcity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as farmers in the territory are yet to get fertilizer for their crops few months to the end of the farming season. A few Months...
When Abdulkarim Adebisi Akande decided to honour an invitation to participate in a programme organised by Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC), never did he envisage that his comments would elicit chain reactions from his former political colleag...
Benedict Uwalaka has gone to cover an assignment in a mortuary located inside the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital but he almost ended up being deposited at the mortuary. No thanks to some evil men – staff members of the teaching hospital...
After being separated for seven months, Kenny G has dropped the ax on his marriage. The instrumentalist filed for divorce from his wife of 20 years, Lyndie Benson-Gorelick, on Thursday in Los Angeles. The move, first reported by TMZ, comes after Benson...
Hundreds of residents of a northeastern city were fleeing Tuesday after arrests by troops and rumours of new attacks by Islamist militants, prompting authorities to plead for calm. Residents of several neighbourhoods in the city of Damaturu accused tro...