Month: July 2025

Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed plans to set up an audit committee on the generation and management of public funds by the management of Sa’adu Zungur University. He said this will ensure greater accountability and transparency in the school. While receiving the report of the Visitation Panel on the university, the governor emphasised the importance […]

A total of 104 young Nigerians have been awarded the European Union (EU)-funded postgraduate scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic session. This scholarship, which is under the EU’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Plus programme, will enable the beneficiaries to acquire interdisciplinary skills to emerge as practitioners, researchers, or decision-makers in their chosen fields. Nigeria is the […]

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has backed down from its threat to embark on strike following the late disbursement of June 2025 salaries to its members. The chairman of University of Abuja branch of ASUU, Dr. Sylvanus Ugoh, confirmed the decision in an interview with LEADERSHIP yesterday. Ugoh said the union dumped the plan […]

In a bid to address avoidable deaths and to give a human face to Nigeria’s healthcare service, Project CHAMP has orientated 27 community and healthcare workers from across the country. An initiative of Hearts Heartist Foundation in collaboration with Heart of Care Providers, CHAMP which represents Community, Holistic Wellness, Art, Medicine and People Empowerment, trained […]

Justice Maryann Anenih of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been asked to turn down a request by former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to travel abroad for medical vacation. The plea came yesterday from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in its counter-motion where it argued that granting […]

The North Central Citizens Council (NCCC) has distanced itself from the recently unveiled opposition coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, describing it as lacking clarity of purpose and credibility. The NCCC’s publicity secretary, Jonathan Omodayo, said the group’s decision to reject the coalition, championed by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was based on […]

The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has called for concerted action to tackle malnutrition, warning that the condition was robbing nearly 40 per cent of Nigerian children under the age of five of their full physical and mental development. He stated this on Tuesday at the National Summit on Nutrition and Food Security in Abuja. Represented […]

Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the death of Mrs Zainab Joy Momodu, the Acting Head of the country’s foreign mission in Guinea Bissau. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday night by Spokesman of the Ministry, Kimiebi Ebienfa, saying the envoy died after a brief illness. The statement said: “The Ministry […]

The Senate has passed the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (Domestication and Enforcement) Bill, 2025, for third reading. The Kampala Convention, adopted by the African Union (AU) in 2009, is a regional treaty aimed at protecting and assisting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Africa. The convention establishes a […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared as fake, a purported meeting where he was reportedly pressured to step down for a candidate of Southern origin ahead of the 2027 general elections. Atiku made the clarification while reacting to inquiries from journalists and concerned Nigerians regarding a meeting where he was said to have rejected […]