News from the states and all the six (6) geo-political zones of Nigeria.
At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, LEADERSHIP gathered. Although no group has claimed responsibility, sources allege that the Boko Haram sect may have launched the attacks. According ...
As the date for the PDP governorship primaries in Bayelsa State draws nearer, governors of the six South-South states yesterday held a closed-door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan during whihc they mounted pressure on him with a view to clearin...
Ahead of the 2015 governorship succession war in Delta State, ethnic and clannish permutations are defining who inherits Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s throne. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND’s OSBY ISIBOR and KOLA NIYI-EKE examine the political intrigues...
The deputy governor of Gombe State, Mr. David Albashi, died yesterday in a German hospital of injuries he received in a car crash on Aug. 28. A statement by the secretary to the Gombe State government, Alhaji Abubakar Bage, said Albashi died in the ear...
Three suspected suicide bombers believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday lost their lives in separate bomb blasts that rocked the Borno State capital, barely 48 hours to Sallah celebrations. Eyewitnesses said that the three men died in t...
Barely twenty-four hours to the Eid-ul Kabir celebrations, hundreds of customers of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc., Panseke branch in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital yesterday received the shock of their lives as they were locked out of the bank’s s...
Three suicide bombers on Friday, met their waterloo when their mission to bomb the headquarters of the Joint Task Force(JTF) in Maiduguri failed – the bombs detonated before they could get through the gate. Our reporter gathered that ...
The former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday defeated Abdullahi Ahmed Aboki of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for Nasarawa Central senatorial district, polling 64,384 votes against his opponent's 58,789. The CPC is however challenging the result. It claimed that voting did not take place in the entire Buga-Karmo ward, but the…
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The Ondo State government yesterday honoured some of its late sons and daughters who had made their marks in their callings and contributed to the development of the state and Nigeria in general.
In order to stem the tide of inter and intra-union’s squabbles in Ekiti State, the state government has presented 140 vehicles to members of transport unions in the state.
He got the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial ticket without opposition, but come April this year, Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke will square up with a former senator, Matthew Tawo Mbu [jnr] and others in the election to decide the next governor of the state. Mr Mbu, son of First Republic minister, Matthew Mbu was senator from 1999 to 2003…
The Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa yesterday announced that a total number of 98 students had been admitted for 2011/ 2012 academic session. The institution recently regained its operational license from the National Universities Commission (NUC) after its failure to commence academic activities since 2008. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Tolu Odugbemi who disclosed this to…
Even as political activities in the country heighten up ahead of the 2011 general elections, the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Bauchi State has directed its members to boycott all activities of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and those of its candidates in Bauchi State. The state NUJ Chairman, Dahiru Garba, who announced the directive…