Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Presidential Committee on Correctional Centres Reform and Decongestion has facilitated the release of about 31 inmates in the Kano correctional centre.
By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief, North-Central)
Trouble looms as the host community demands a review of compensation paid to the indigenes if the multi-billion Naira federal government’s 700 megawatts Zungeru hydro dam project must continue.
By Danjuma Williams (Gombe State Correspondent)
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says it feels relieved following the release from captivity of the 91 abducted students of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina in Niger State.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has elected Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani as the new Chairman of its Board.
By Ankeli Emmanuel (Sokoto)
In their sustained efforts towards checking irregular migration, the Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, said in Sokoto, that Service will soon embark on an e-project that will help nip in the bud that ugly trend.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has felicitated the government and people of Enugu State as the state clocked 30 years on Friday.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The first female governor of Anambra state, Dame Virginia Etiaba, has expressed her condolences over the passage, early in the week, of the wives of Nigeria's first military Head of State and the former Premier of the old Eastern Region, Mrs. Victoria Aguiyi ironsi and Mrs. Adannma Micheal Okpara.
The two former First Ladies of Nigeria and the Eastern Region reportedly passed on on Monday, August 23, 2021, in Abia state. Mrs. Victoria Aguiyi ironsi was the wife of Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's first military leader who was assassinated on July 29, 1966, in a perceived counter-coup of January 15, 1966. Mrs. Adannma Okpara was the wife of the popular Premier of the old Eastern Region, Dr. Micheal Okpara, who died in December 1983.
In a statement on Monday personally signed by Dame (Mrs) Virgy Etiaba, she described Mrs. Aguiyi-Ironsi and Mrs. Okpara as "finest ladies" who played great roles in ensuring that their late elder statesman husbands and former leaders in Nigeria exhibited quintessential leadership roles which "remains a case study material till tomorrow".
Mrs. Etiaba however expressed her elation in paying what she described as her "humble tribute to two of these most distinguished Ladies of this era, Lady Victoria Aguiyi Ironsi and Lady Adannma Okpara.
The former Anambra deputy governor and later governor, also added that "without any shadow of a doubt, both lived a fulfilled and graceful lives, and proudly survived by their great children, several grand and great-grandchildren of note.
"Both distinguished Ladies having left indelible footprints on the sand of time, have now left this world to eternity in a blaze of glory. I pray therefore that they have now found everlasting peace in the bosom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen!", Dame Etiaba stated. NNL.
By David Wuya, (Nassarawa State Correspondent)
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Novel Association for Youth Advocacy (NAYA), with the support from Population Reference Bureau, on Thursday, commenced advocacy on family planning for Adolescents in Nasarawa state.
By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has described Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom's latest comments on President Muhammad Buhari's administration as the 'rantings of a failed governor'.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday, August 26, 2021, tasked social media influencers and entertainers to use their platforms and crafts in promoting the fight against economic crimes.
By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)
President Muhammadu Buhari has successfully reduced Nigeria's Joint Venture (JV) cash call indebtedness for oil exploration activities from $5.1bn he inherited in 2015 to $1.4bn as of May 2021.
By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), on Tuesday, lambasted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for criticizing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its recent interrogation of the former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji, for alleged acts of corruption.
