Fire has razed three shops, destroying property worth hundreds of thousands of naira in Nasarawa-Eggon, Headquarters of the Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a one-room apartment...
Barely four days to the start of hearing on the appeal against the Imo state Governor’s election, speculations are rife that some top-notch officials of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imo state, had made unsuccessful attempts to bribe ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr Zakari Ibrahim, as the new Controller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service. A statement issued on Saturday in Abuja and signed by Mr Nanven Nimfel, the Director/Secretary of the Civil De...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has call on Nigerian to continue to believe in the power of Almighty God, who remains the unquestionable author of all human endeavour.The was contained in a New year’s message signed by the National Chairman ...
Bauchi state government is set to established a cement factory worth 36 Billion Naira in Gwana area of Alkaleri local government council of the state in conjunction with an American company. The director of press affairs to Governor Isah Yuguda, Ishola...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday made real his threat to crush Boko Haram – he declared a state of emergency in 15 selected local government areas of Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger states, even as he ordered for the closure of Chad and Niger...
Expectations that the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) will emerge this year in the person of Justice Alooma Mukhtar may not materialize afterall, as the Presidency has finalized arrangements to send an Executive Bill to the National Assembl...
Five persons have been reportedly killed in cult related war in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta which occurred last Friday. Reports indicated that a 36-year old man identified as Emeka and father of four was reported to have been involv...
An Abuja based constitutional lawyer, Prince Orji Nwafor-Orizu has warned the members of the National Union of Teachers to desist from their planned protest in Anambra. Nwafor-Orizu in an interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY condemned the proposed protest ...
The Crisis rocking the Oyo state Pilgrims Welfare Board has reached its climax with the invitation of the Vice chairman of Muslim Wing, Alhaji Abass Oloko who might be charged to court on Tuesday. Alhaji Oloko has also lost his job wi...
The political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has described the utterances of chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in their reactions to the explosion that rocked the Catholic Church building in Madalla,...
Last week, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai declared that the North will not support the South-East in its quest for the presidency in 2015. But, Chief Chekwas Okorie, the founder and first National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in this int...
Though a verdict foretold, the Supreme Court’s affirmation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s electoral victory early last week removes the final judicial albatross on the president’s neck. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s LOUIS ACHI writes th...
President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist sect Boko Haram. The measure is in force in areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday pledged that there would be no hiding place for sponsors of members of the terrorist group, `Boko Haram’ which had claimed responsibilities for a number of terror attacks in the country. The president state...