AAUA students and lecturer run for their lives after their classmates dressed as bandits storm their class for a presentation on terrorism Students and a lecturer of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba in Ondo state recently ran for their lives after some of the students in their class came in dressed as terrorists for a…
Mexican authorities have confirmed the death of a pregnant woman who was cut open by two assailants who stole her unborn baby. The attorney general’s office in the eastern state of Veracruz said in a statement, that the suspects were arrested with a newborn in their possession. The suspects said to be a man and…
Boko Haram terrorists (fighters) said to be angry over the killing of their (BHT) Commander, Malam Aboubakar (Munzir) and 15 other fighters in a deadly in-fighting, have slaughtered 33 wives of Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Sambisa to avenge the killings. Recall that since December 3, a top Boko Haram leader…
Three days after the Federal Government denied that it planned to hike the pump price of petrol, independent marketers have raised their price to N280 per litre. Checks on petrol situations in Abuja on Saturday morning showed that while NNPC Retail stations maintained a pump price of N179 per litre, the major marketers dispensed at N180 per…
He gave the directive at the unveiling of the new service logo and uniforms and the commissioning of a new staff quarters, ICT infrastructure and operational vehicles at the Service headquarters. Twenty-five personnel who displayed gallantry to repel a bandits’ attack on a custodial facility in Niger State were rewarded by the minister at the…
Nigeria’s democracy has been fragile and fluctuating since independence. Successive governments have struggled to create a sense of national unity in a complex country whose borders were drawn by British colonialists, incorporating more than 200 ethnic groups. Democratization and development have progressed at different speeds in the country’s disparate regions. The less-developed north is more…
ANAMBRA State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has urged the church to confront the common enemy of idolatry which he described as the fastest growing religion in the state. Speaking at a religious function in Onitsha, Soludo said he had declared war on criminals, their shrines and priests and burnt down their idols since he became…
by Jonathan Nda-Isaiah 36 Governors of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have come down hard on the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, over claims that State governments were responsible for the rising poverty rate in the country. LEADERSHIP recalls that the National Bureau of…
A former Senator representing Kaduna Central District, Shehu Sani, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to name the governors ‘stealing’ local government funds in the country. Sani made the appeal in a tweet via his verified Twitter account on Friday. He wrote, “The President should have the courage to specifically mention those governors pocketing LG allocations rather than…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo late Saturday, was host of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council leaders in Abeokuta. A statement by Special Assistant on Media to the former President, Kehinde Akinyemi, indicated that the team led by the Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Delta State, Okowa, included the Director General…