Contrary to the report of the panel set up by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which indicted the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and two lawyers, Yahaya Mahmood and Alfred Agu, the National Judicial Council (NJC) yester...
The Anambra State government and the Family of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu have dispelled rumours that made the rounds yesterday that the Ikemba Nnewi had passed on insisting that the Biafran warlord was very much alive. Several people, includin...
The federal government hinted yesterday that it has doled out a whooping sum of N4.1 trillion to be used under the National Strategic Health Plan to boost the health sector up to 2015. It also approved the Stepping...
One nursing mother was killed and two others injured in a protest when soldiers raided one Islamic school at Mandara Abdu ward of Biu town of Biu Local Government of Borno State and arrested five scholars suspected to be members of Boko Haram. The inci...
Federal Government and the organised labour will tomorrow conclude and sign an agreement on the implementation of the N18000 national minimum wage, a reliable source told LEADERSHIP yesterday. The agreement which was supposed to have been signed yester...
No fewer than 11 candidates from the North East zone are in the race for the national chairmanship of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This follows the release of the guideline for congresses and national convention of the party. This is just...
Fresh facts emerged yesterday as to why youths of Bonny, in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, home to the nation’s biggest crude oil terminal and the multi-billion dollar Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, are poised for a conflict ...
Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the president of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, that the sub-region would not accept a coup in that country. Jonathan, who was reacting ...
The federal government has tasked all permanent secretaries, directors and other management staff of civil service to step up their efforts in building capacity of its entire workforce on effective application of Information Communication Technology (I...
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is presently awaiting the clearance of the national headquarters of the party to determine whether or not to participate in the forthcoming local government elections in the state scheduled ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Asaba, Delta State, has arrested 32 suspected drug addicts in possession of 120.2kg of cannabis and psychotropic substances. The state command’s spokesman, Mallam Ibrahim Mohammed, told newsmen ...
The police yesterday detonated a bomb at Unguwan Ngas in Yelwa, Bauchi Metropolis said to have been planted near a gutter in the area. A resident of the area, who pleaded anonymity, said that ‘’ I saw the bomb at about 6.am near the area wh...
Senator Joseph Waku has blamed Senate President David Mark for the alleged marginalisation of the Tiv nation by the President Jonathan administration, calling the senator a tribalist,. Speaking in an interview with our correspondent in the State of Mar...
Wearing compression stockings might help people suffering from a common sleep disorder, claim researchers.They found sufferers who wore thigh-high stockings for a week cut their sleep problems by a third.People with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) frequ...
A good night’s sleep to some Americans has become a matter of life and death causing symptoms of high blood pressure, and sleep apnea. In addition, experts say many motor vehicle accidents can be linked to some variety of sleep disorder. Accordin...