In what many believe is another litmus test for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday’s governorship election in Kogi state saw the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prince Abubakar Audu taking an early lead in the resul...
The father of convicted spokesman of the Boko Haram sect Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, also known as Usman Al-Zawahiri, Alhaji Sanda Konduga, has stated that his son has had a long history of insanity. The elder Konduga also said that he was not aware that h...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit filed against the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, challenging her eligibility for appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan into the federal cabinet. In a ruling...
The Zamfara police command has arrested Sani Umar, also known as Shedan (Satan) for allegedly leading a team of hoodlums to chop off the left wrist of a 25-year-old lady, Malama Fatima Mohammed, in an attempt to snatch her handbag. LEADERSHIP gathered ...
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain yesterday told supporters that he was suspending his presidential campaign, citing allegations of sexual harassment as reason. Cain was accused of sexual harassment while an Atlanta woman claimed that t...
Tehran is not worried about international repercussions, and why should it be? The West has hesitated to take the steps that could cripple the regime’s economic base and stymie its nuclear ambitions. MAX BOOT writes on the Iranian threat to the W...
Australia’s ruling Labour party has backed gay marriage, although Prime Minister Julia Gillard is against it. BBC reported yesterday that the party’s national conference also endorsed Ms Gillard’s amendment to allow a free vote on any...
Iranian diplomats expelled from London in retaliation for attacks on British compounds in Tehran have arrived home. According to a Skynews report, roughly two dozen diplomats and their families returned on an Iran Air charter flight. But 150 hard...
The euro zone will once again serve as the source of Wall Street’s angst, as investors look to a summit of the region’s political leaders for decisive solutions for the ballooning debt crisis. Reuters reported on Friday that Stocks posted t...
The AMR Corporation on Friday, made a voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation, but said it expected to continue operations normally. Skynews reported American’s chairman and chief executive, Gerard Arpey also stepped down, and A...
The US unemployment rate tumbled to a 2-1/2 year low in November, even though the pace of hiring remained too slow to suggest a significant acceleration in the labour market recovery.In a report by Reuters, nonfarm payrolls increased by 120,000 jobs, t...
Agriculture used to generate about 60 per cent of Nigeria’s labour force. A mainstay of most nations, it is said that any country that cannot feed itself is an impoverished land. Countries like Somali, Sudan and others are sustained by the United...
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday described corruption in in the country as a cancer which had been frustrating government’s efforts towards uplifting the quality of life of the people. He vowed that government would fight the cankerworm to a...
Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mal. Nasiru el-Rufai yesterday buried his eldest daughter, Yasmin at the Gwarimpa cemetery in Abuja after the body was flown in from London where she died earlier in the week. The immediate past secreta...
The court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi,yesterday dismissed the appeal filed by Major Lawrence Onoja of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) against senate President David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). Onoja had appealed against the decision...