Long queues yesterday reappeared at various filling stations in Makurdi following the two-day suspension of the week-long nationwide strike called by organised labour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspension which...
Bauchi State Governor Malam Isa Yuguda has promised to offer political appointments and jobs to the 152 former members of the dreaded ‘sara suka’ gang in the state who renounced their membership and surrendered their weapons. The gove...
A combined team of fire fighters from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Julius Berger and the Nigerian Federal Fire Service saved the Senate chamber of the National Assembly from being razed by fire. An eyewitness who spoke with LEADERSHIP SUNDA...
As more Nigerians continue to react to the subsidy removal by the Federal Government, a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Ibrahim Masari, yesterday, accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of being insensitive to th...
Anglican Bishop of Evo Diocese in Rivers State, Rt. Rev. Innocent Ordu, has urged Nigerians irrespective of religious and political affiliations to live in peace. Ordu stated this on Friday night while delivering a sermon at Saint Barnabas Anglican Chu...
Self Employed Drivers Association, Abuja (SECDAA) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) are entangled in a legal battle over the control of the road transport sub-sector in Nasarawa State. According to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY findings, tro...
A long established legal ethic well respected across the world emphasises that “he who alleges-as a prosecutor, must prove”. In the like-manner as “the onus of proof lies on he who asserts”. But, the trial of Major Al-Mustapha r...
Barely one week after the federal government declared a state of emergency in 15 local government areas of four states in the North, bombs and killings have not abated. No fewer than twenty persons may have lost their lives in more than five different ...
Nigeria has lost between N100 and N144 billion daily due to the strike action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to protest the over 116 per cent increase in the price of premium motor spirit, also called pet...
The Ondo State Judiciary has been assured of a better deal in 2012, particularly in the areas of infrastructural development and provision of enabling environment for quick dispensation of justice. Giving this assurance, the state governor, Dr. Olusegu...
Alhaji Garba Haruna, an Islamic cleric and chairman, Northern Traditional Council in Awka, has urged Muslims who fled Anambra to return, saying there was no threat to their lives. Haruna, who is the Sarkin Hausawa of Awka Central Mosque, made the...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has faulted the recent arrest and detention of its state chairman and other party leaders in Sokoto State who had gone to attend the meeting convened by the Commissioner of Police, Sokoto State Command, Baba Adisa B...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Muhammed Bello Adoke(SAN), has refuted claims that he is maintaining multiple accounts with bribes from foreign companies doing business in the Country. A statement from Mr. Adoke, signed ...
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are presently meeting in Labour House Abuja to discuss ahead of their meeting with President Jonathan over the nationwide strike declared by the organised Labour. The crucial mee...
Maj.-Gen. Lawrence Ngubane, the Chief of Training and Operations, Nigerian Army, has led a team of officers to Damaturu to assess the security challenges in Yobe State. He told Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam during a courtesy call that the assessment tour was in ...