Tension heightened in Enugu State yesterday following the arrest of about 25 suspected members of Boko Haram by a team of policemen on patrol in Nsukka Area of state. The suspects were reportedly being conveyed into the state by a young driver and an a...
The House of Representatives Committee on Water Resources has called for a review of the Federal Government’s water policy in order to develop a sound and workable water supply arrangement with the states and local governments. The Chairman House...
Senate Committee Chairman on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, has said the five Governors sacked by the Supreme Court judgment should accept the verdict in good faith. Saraki speaking to airport correspondents at the Presidential L...
A member of the House of Representatives, Prof. Ini Udoka, has faulted the suggestion by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka that Nigerian legislators should operate on part time basis to save costs. Speaking exclusively to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND on the iss...
Yesterday, a full panel of the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher delivered a unanimous judgment on the contentious issue of tenure elongation. In its verdict, the apex court ruled against tenure elongatio...
Following a series of meetings between the federal government and labour organisations over the astronomical increase in the pump price of petrol, occasioned by subsidy removal, which subsequently triggered angry reactions and unprecedented protests ac...
Agony now trails the family of an Igbo trader, Emeka Ahabuike, who lost his three children and life savings in one fell swoop to a strange fire in Jigawa State. MUHAMMAD ZANGINA KURA, reports. Emeka Ahabuike, a trader in Jigawa State is a bitter man. I...
MIDAT JOSEPH discovers the squalor and pains that have become the lot of the Kaduna Lepers’ Village, known as Hayin Gabriel. The signs of despondency and squalor are latent. They take a firm grip on the decrepit landscape. Penury is written...
Mr. Okey Ikpe, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Office Machines Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Office Machines Network LLC, USA, is one of Nigeria’s most experienced Information and Communication Technology experts, who has ma...
The remains of the Channels television reporter, late Enenche Akogwu, was yesterday, laid to rest in Ai-Odoo clan, Ago Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue state. The late Enenche was shot and killed in the last Friday’s bomb blasts ...
Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon has said that suicide bomb attacks in parts of the country are the handiwork of foreigners who infiltrated the ranks of a radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Gowon, who disclosed this on Thursday night ...
For failing to appear before to answer contempt charges preferred against them by the executive of the Ogun State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) a Federal High Court in Lagos has issued a bench warran...
Four years after her only son, Charles, disappeared from home, Madam Sabina Okoro, 70, has been agonising over his whereabouts. She wants to see her son’s corpse even if he’s dead. NNAMDI MBAWIKE , reports. When Charles Okoro escaped ...
Ezowa or gbegiri, also known as beans soup is a local soup popular with the Nupes and Yorubas. It’s also widely eaten by other ethnic groups, like the Igbos and Hausas as well as other countries in West Africa. It is a highly nutritious soup beca...
Not a stranger to controversy, Hon. Dino Melaye dismisses the Christopher Kolade Committee empanelled by President Goodluck Jonathan to oversee the use of subsidy savings as an Owambe one litre price. Speaking to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’S RUTH CHOJI, ...