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Infrastructure experts, government officials, academics, and development practitioners, have stressed the urgent need for Africa to integrate women’s voices in infrastructure delivery, warning that exclusion risks undermining sustainable growth and deepening inequality. The call was made at a high-level workshop themed “Sustaining Gender Lens Infrastructure Delivery Agenda in Africa: Policy, Implementation & Partnerships,” convened by […]

Men of the Kwara State Police Command have rescued seven kidnap victims in a forest near Owa – Onire in the state’s southern district. The Command achieved the feat on Wednesday, through a joint security operation led by a security operative from the Office of the National Security Adviser, Abuja. The rescued victims include Adam […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has named the chairman’s conference hall after the late chairman of the commission, Solomon Arase. Spokesperson of commission, Ikechukwu Ani, disclosed in a statement that the conference hall, located on the sixth floor of the PSC’s headquarters in Abuja, was renamed in honour of the late inspector-general of police (IGP). […]

Justice Halilu Yusuf of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has turned down a request by the Inspector-General of Police to issue bench warrant against five former senior police officers on charges of forgery and age falsification. All the accused person were absent in court on Thursday, when the case came up […]

Human rights activist and Abuja-based lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has raised the alarm over what he described as the “continued weaponisation of the Nigerian Police Force against critics”, warning that the trend represented a dangerous assault on freedom of expression in the country. Adeyanju, in a terse statement on Thursday sent to LEADERSHIP, claimed that Nigerians […]

Nigeria has opened previously inactive oil blocks to investors and is actively seeking deeper and more strategic partnerships with global players to resume production on those assets. The minister of state for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, made this disclosure while delivering a keynote address at the United States–Nigeria Council’s session on oil sector […]

‎The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, assured that the nation’s capital city will compete with other cities of the world before the end of President Bola Tinubu’s first tenure in 2027. ‎ ‎Wike said the development of Abuja was in line with Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. ‎ Wike also […]

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has ordered a company operating under the name, KPMG Advisory Services, to change its name within six weeks due to similarities with KPMG Nigeria, a well-known professional services firm. The CAC, which gave the directive in a letter dated September 19, 2025 and signed on behalf of its Registrar General […]

Caritas Nigeria, the humanitarian arm of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, said it has partnered with the Federal Government and the United States Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to provide HIV and Tuberculosis treatments, alongside counselling services to over 37,000 Nigerians. The Executive Secretary of Caritas Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Peter Babangida Audu, made this known […]

The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has directed the resuscitation of the Nigerian Air Force Surveillance Aircraft (NAFSA) Eagle Project which was suspended seven years ago. AM Abubakar disclosed this on Thursday at the 3rd quarter 2025 Defence Headquarters and Services Transformation Seminar with the theme: “Galvanising the Will to Fight: […]