Scores of Northern Nigerian youths leaders met in Kaduna yesterday and slammed President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Value and Ethics, Mrs. Sarah Jubril for attributing insecurity in the country to Northerners. The North, accordi...
Stakeholders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Gombe have denied allegation that the State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo is on a mission to eliminate the PDP in the state and replace it with All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP. ...
The new Commissioner of Police in Kano State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has urged residents of Sabon Gari in the Kano metropolis to assist the police command in flushing out criminals from the state. Idris said during a visit to the Sabon Gari...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi will today begin trial of the case between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Governor Gabriel Suswam and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Prof. Steven Ugba . Ugba had petit...
The Ministry of Transport has clarified its stance on the alleged media report about a purported 34.8bn scam that was said to have rocked the ministry over the dredging of River Niger In a rejoinder signed by the Director of Press of the m...
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the royal fathers in Adamawa State helped him and his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to victory in the just-concluded 2011 general elections. “We could not have won in Adamawa if you and you...
In response to allegations that Single Window System Technology Limited (SWST) presented falsified document to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), the federal government has placed a temporary ban on dealings with the company. ...
Former chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) Idris Kutigi yesterday opened up on the protracted crisis of confidence between former CJN Aloysius Katsina-Alu and suspended president of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami. In an exclusive interv...
The United Nations office in Nigeria has officially released the names of those who died in the August 26 suicide bombing of its office. It confirmed that 23 persons died and 116 were injured. This was disclosed by the resident coordinator of UN...
Following a report by an international Hausa radio station that Muammar Gaddafi’s head of security service, General Youssef Dbiri, had relocated to Kaduna State from Yobe State where he is said to have maternal root, a robust manhunt for Dbiri&rs...
The House of Representatives may today announce the Leader of the House and complete the membership of the body of principal officers.LEADERSHIP also learnt that Hon Mulikat Akande-Adeola will be the announced as the Leader of the House. She had ...
The Senate has begun the process of a holistic review of the 1999 Constitution as it named a 47-member Constitution review committee.As expected, the panel is headed by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. The list co...
Mixed reactions have trailed the dissolution of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the sack of its managing director, Mr Chibuzor Ugwuoha.President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday approved the implementation of a recommendation...
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has implored the Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts to explore how the history of Central Nigeria can be “unmasked” through the dynamic interrelationship of its peoples and their arts. The govern...
A socio-political group in Ekiti State, the Ekiti Positive Forum (EPF) has appealed to the National Universities’ Commission (NUC) to grant approval to the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU), formerly University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD). The for...