A 92-year-old newspaper vendor, Pa Ephraim Obinedu, got more thanhe looked forward to on Friday, when he was recognised as the oldest Nigerian by the Anambra chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), when they bestowed on him the Vendor Award...
The Borno State government has set up an environmental mobile court to check indiscriminate dumping of wastes in Maiduguri, the state capital. Permanent secretary, in the state’s Ministry of Environment, Alhaji Mustapha Kurna, disclosed the plan ...
The Anambra state government has issued a warning to all street beggars, especially children used by their parents to beg for alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested. 29 of such women who displayed their children as strategy for getting alms h...
The Former Director of Corp Welfare of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Dr John Abhuere has disclosed that the elite were responsible for the current security challenges wrecking havoc in the country. He made the disclosure in Abuja yesterday w...
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday called for the abrogation of the law that tries public officers for keeping foreign accounts describing it as outdated, even as he said his trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal was an a...
….As Communities Threaten to Shut Oil operations The House of Representatives Committee on Environment is investigating Shell Petroleum Development Company and Exxon Mobil over their alleged breach of a joint venture partnership agreement...
Last week, a Lagos high court ordered the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay Babatunde ‘Baba Suwe’ Omidina the whopping sum of N25m for defamation of character. For those who were there, it was a spectacle to behold, as the ...
No, I won’t mention the title of the film. Doing so will only give it unsolicited advert. This is about one of the actresses who featured in it; Uche Jombo. After establishing herself in the English genre of Nollywood, she moved over to get a fee...
Singer Katy Perry’s life is becoming a soap opera. At least, that’s how the pop star sees it, given all the rumours surrounding her these days. First, there was speculation that she was expecting, which she colourfully denied. Now, there ha...
Singer Elton John has declared a new war on AIDS and the “fascists and idiots” who continue to stigmatise the disease. The outspoken singer finished off World AIDS Day 2011 with a stirring speech last (Saturday) night, as he watched firewor...
Basketballer Kris Humphries’s filing for an annulment shook up Kim Kardashian, even though she had considered doing the same thing, a source said. “The filing is, of course, upsetting,” said the source, who is close to the reality sta...
Before the inauguration of the Seventh National Assembly in June this year, the Ohan bridge along Alapa – Bakase – Baruten road was in deplorable condition. The importance of this bridge to the socio-economic activities of the people of Kwa...
Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura, of Nasarawa state, took over the mantle of leadership of the state, as the third democratically elected governor, on the 29th of May,2011. Al-makura’s emergence as the governor of the young state has indeed changed...
The residents of Lokoja and the people of Kogi State will not forget in a hurry the recent visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state. The president was in the confluence state to attend the grand finale of the campaign for yesterday’s (sa...
Pigba, a slum in the FCT may not be very popular compared to many other slums which LEADERSHIP SUNDAY featured in the past. It nevertheless qualifies as a slum having all the trappings of a slum. In spite of warnings from the FCT authorities that the b...