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Security operatives have dispersed #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protesters, who were agitating for the release of the detained leader of the prosbribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters fled their gathering after combined security forces released live…
Taraba State Internal Revenue Service (TIRS) has urged private and commercial drivers to renew their particulars to avoid checks that could delay their movement on the highway. The executive chairman of the TIRS, Brig-Gen. Jeremiah Aliyu Faransa (rtd), made the call during…
Kano Pillars Football Club has suspended its Technical Adviser, Ogenyi Evans, and Chief Coach, Ahmed Garba Yaro Yaro, with immediate effect, following what the club management described as the team’s “unsatisfactory performance” in the ongoing 2025/2026 Nigeria Premier…
Bauchi State Infrastructure Development and Maintenance Agency (BASIDMA) has directed the immediate removal of illegal billboards and campaign posters from streetlight poles and structures in the state. The director-general of the agency, Engr Abdulrahman Mai-Auduga, who…
To strengthen regional cooperation on electricity access and sustainability, the governors of Katsina, Kano and Jigawa states have agreed to form a united front in driving power sector reforms in Northern Nigeria. Leading the Katsina delegation, Governor Malam Dikko Umaru…
There was a heavy traffic gridlock at the Zuba and Nyanya parts of Abuja on Monday morning following the mounting of roadblocks by security operatives ahead of the planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest. The roadblocks, reportedly set up by operatives of the armed forces just…
Security operatives have dispersed #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protesters, who were agitating for the release of the detained leader of the prosbribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The protesters fled their gathering after combined security forces released live…
Security operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on Monday morning, fired teargas at commuters in the Central Business District of Abuja, as tensions mounted ahead of the planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest. The protest, spearheaded by human rights activist and publisher…
Kano Pillars Football Club has suspended its Technical Adviser, Ogenyi Evans, and Chief Coach, Ahmed Garba Yaro Yaro, with immediate effect, following what the club management described as the team’s “unsatisfactory performance” in the ongoing 2025/2026 Nigeria Premier…
There was a heavy traffic gridlock at the Zuba and Nyanya parts of Abuja on Monday morning following the mounting of roadblocks by security operatives ahead of the planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest. The roadblocks, reportedly set up by operatives of the armed forces just…
Security operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on Monday morning, fired teargas at commuters in the Central Business District of Abuja, as tensions mounted ahead of the planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest. The protest, spearheaded by human rights activist and publisher…
Kaduna State governor, Senator Uba Sani, has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will win 95 per cent of the total votes in the state in 2027 elections. The governor recalled that APC had only four members of House of Representatives in 2023 but the party now has…
Ijaw People’s Development Initiative (IPDI) has demanded the unconditional release of ‘General’ Godstime Ogidigba who was arrested by the police officers attached to the zonal headquarters of Zone 5. The group, in a statement signed by its national president, the senior…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has been asked to rescind the pardon given to specific categories of Nigerians, most especially convicted drug barons. In a statement signed by Adewale Adeoye, the Journalists for Democratic Rights (JODER) said the pardon of drug barons has…
House Representatives Committee on Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring has commended the efforts of the management and staff of Zobis Group towards the nation’s industrial growth. The chairman of the committee, Hon. Boma Goodhead, made the commendation when she led…
Users of the Umuahia-Bende-Ohafia federal road have lamented failed portions of the highway and appealed to the federal and state governments to to fix it. Speaking to LEADERSHIP, yesterday, on one of the worst portions at Ozu Abam in Arochukwu local government area, they…
A respected elder statesman in Akwa Ibom State and former lawmaker, Chief Nse Ntuen, has defended the Senate president, Senator Godswill Akpabio, amid what he described as a “malicious campaign of lies and personal vendetta.” In a statement issued to journalists yesterday in…
Chairman, Abia State House of Assembly Committee on Environment, NEWMAP and Urban Renewal, Kalu Mba Nwoke, has said the late Rev Uma Ukpai was a true servant of God. Nwoke spoke to LEADERSHIP, yesterday, following the demise of the president and founder of Uma Ukpai…
