Histrionics, bruised egos, flawed parliamentary mathematics, a besieged presidency and more tantalizing conspiracy theories mesh to hand President Goodluck Jonathan a September deadline to deliver an unlikely 100 per cent implementation of the budget o...
As Nigeria is being rated third in the world among countries grappling with the Wild Polio Virus, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s Midat Joseph, Ahmed Usman, Kaduna; Sakin Babalola, Ibadan; Alo Abiola, Ado-Ekiti; Sefiu Ayanbimpe, Osogbo; David Akinadewo, Akur...
The residents of Rikkos in Plateau State have been carrying out their normal businesses including teaching, farming and other menial labour without hinderance or fear of any disaster lurking around the corner. However, the quiet community apart f...
The national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Bamanga Tukur rode to power on not a little controversy. Looking beyond this however, the Tafidan Adamawa conceived a 12 point agenda to transform ‘Africa’s biggest p...
The federal government in 2009 awarded the contract for the dualization of the Abuja – Kubwa expressway to ease the heavy traffic that has become a source of worry for road users plying that route. However, reckless driving on the part of motoris...
Roads within the suburbs are just as important as the expressways, but over the years government has been known to leave them to neglect. BLESSING UKEMENA, writes on how this is affecting the residents of such areas where bad roads are a common sight a...
Worried by the fractious nature of the party in most states, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is set to commence a national reconciliation tour of the six geopolitical zones of the country. The reconciliation tour ...
Former Minister of Defense and a Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in Edo State, Retired Major General Godwin Abbe, has called on his party to rescind it decision to challenge the victory of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the Edo State Election Tribunal. ...
Speaker of the House Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal , the National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd); including Minister for Youth Development Barrister Inuwa Abdilkadir on yesterday visited the scene of last week’s Bomblast tha...
The governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, said yesterday that God revealed to him that the fratricidal crisis in the state was ‘‘because of their sins.’’ The governor said this when he led other security chiefs to visit Riy...
Retired archbishop of Lagos His Eminence Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie has expressed grave worry on the quality of leaders in the country. They are visionless and have therefore failed the country, he said. The versatile clergyman, who spoke at the ...
Notwithstanding last Wednesday’s deadline set by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) for the submission of bid document for Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s generating companies (GENCOs) and the distribution companies (DISCOs), some o...
A 23 year-old private security operative has taken his own life over fear that he would undergo arrest and possible detention in a police station. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the man whose name was given as Solomon from Kaduna State had been accused ...
Pirates suspected to be Nigerians yesterday attacked a Dutch oil vessel, killing two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, a report by Agence France Presse (AFP) said. The pirates stormed the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea, an area that h...
Emotions ran high as sympathisers at the 3rd Day Fidda’u prayers for late Hajiya Fatima Al-Mustapha could not hold back tears at the prayer session, protesting the absence of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, her eldest son. There was visible anger...