The Emir of Potiskum, Alhaji Umar Ibn Bubaram yesterday condenmed the bombing of the United Nations House in Abuja, and appealed to royal fathers and heads of traditional institutions to assist the federal government in their bid to catch and punish th...
Hat-Trick hero Wayne Rooney hailed Manchester United’s 8-2 win over Arsenal yesterday as “incredible”. Rooney surpassed 150 United goals as Ashley Young struck a brace while Danny Welbeck, Nani and Park Ji-sing all scored. But manager...
Nigeria’s senior national basketball team, D’Tigers has qualified for the playoffs for the qualification of the 2012 summer Olympics to be held in London. Nigeria will compete against 11 other countries in the 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifyin...
Nigerian contingent to the 10th All Africa Games holding in Maputo, Mozambique, between September 3 and 10, have been promised cash reward of N50,000 per gold medal won by any Nigerian athlete. Senate President, Senator David Mark promised to reward ea...
Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has charged Team Nigeria athletes for the All Africa Games to emulate the Flying Eagles of Nigeria who were adjudged the best disciplined team in the last FIFA World Youth Championship held in Colombia, eve...
Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has described last weekend’s terrorist attack on the United Nation Building in Abuja which claimed many innocent souls as a senseless act of barbarism. He stated this yesterday in Eket at a thanksgiving s...
In a bid to rid the Federal Capital Territory of shanties, the Deputy Director of Monitoring and Enforcement; Development Control Department of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, (AMMC) Mr Tukur Bakori has cautioned developers to desist from erecti...
Princess Olufemi-Kayode has for many years fought the cause of sexually abused women and children through her organisation, Media Concern for Women and Children (MEDIACON). She shares her story with CHINYERE FRED-ADEGBULUGBE For those who are not very ...
The Yobe State government has said it will spend an additional sum of N530m to meet up the payment of the new minimum wage of N18,000 for its civil servants. The acting state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mohammed Inuwa Gulani, disclos...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) was recently inundated with petitions alleging fraud in various quarters. Ironically, the streams of petitions are coming at a time the ICPC is saddled with the issues of und...
Most widows in Nigeria are made to undergo various torture in the name of fulfilling the burial rites of their deceased husband, VICTORIA OZOHU MAYAKI in this report, looks at the plight of the widows. Widowhood, a mental and emotional devastating stat...
David Okoror, director general of African Diaspora Initiative, has joined the call for more funding of the ICPC instead of merging it with the EFCC. Ruth Choji was there for LEADERSHIP WEEKEND What is African Diaspora Initiative all about? African Dias...
Winston Odumu Ojobi is a politician and a public commentator. The former director of Shekarau Campaign Organization, International in this interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’S Ruth Choji condemned some of the CBN new polices on cash withdrawal as ...
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in this interview speaks to BAYO OLADEJI over the feud between General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida. Excerpts. Sir, you issued a statement last Sunday taking a position on IBB/OBJ feud. But you later mad...
Several houses and shops in 65 Battallion Bonny Cantonment in Lagos have been taken over by flood at the Bar Beach, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that the flood destroyed the walls of the residence of the Commanding Officer of t...