Workers in Abia would have to wait for the review of Federal Allocation before they start enjoying the new minimum wage, commissioner for information, Chief Don Ubani, said in Umuahia. Ubani who stated this during a news briefing on the suspended labou...
The January 6, 2011 re-run Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday reserved judgment for July 25, 2011 in the election trial between Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) and Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a methamphetamine production factory in Lagos and arrested two suspects. The suspects are Bernard Umezurike, 44, the alleged owner of the illegal production centre, and Polycarp Ndilobi, 41...
The chief executive officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Onyema, has assured stakeholders in the nation’s capital market that The Exchange would soon become a preferred investment destination for both local and internatio...
About 61 Nigerians, including three minors, were deported from the United Kingdom yesterday. The deportees, who came aboard a chartered aircraft, arrived in the country in the early hours of the day and were received at the cargo terminal of the Murtal...
The Niger State governor, Mohammed Babangida Aliyu, has declared that many state governors would be unable to pay the minimum wage of N18, 000 if the current revenue allocation formula is not reviewed in favour of the states and local councils. Governo...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to investigate the ``disappearance’’ of the late Alhaji Umaru Yar`Adua when he was the sitting president. Soyinka made the call in Lagos at a Town Hall mee...
Nigerians have been invited to nominate an Outstanding Young Person for the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI) Associate Programme – October 2011.
The House of Representatives, yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to construct additional lanes on the Nyanya-Keffi road to reduce the regular fatal accidents along the express way. More than 20 lives were lost and several others wounded when a...
A conducive environment is a major factor in achieving greater learning results and the overall academic growth of students. Learner-friendly environments, experts say should be given special consideration when establishing an institution of learning. ...
The newly elected Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Taiwo Taiwo said yesterday that Nigeria was not yet ripe for the abolition of capital punishment from its penal system. Taiwo in a chat with LEADERSHIP said that sinc...
Five people have been confirmed dead and 12 seriously injured in fresh violence in clashes between restive Muslim and Christian youths yesterday. The incident was said to have occurred at about 7p.m in Angwan Rukuba area in the northern part of Jos, Pl...
A ministerial nominee and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mustain Abaniwonda, 56, who drowned in a Lagos lagoon on Monday, has been buried. The men of Marine Police department of the Nigeria Police Force supported by divers finall...
A midwife, Mrs. Ekaette Akpan, has been brought before an Ebute-Metta Magistrates Court, Lagos State, over her involvement in the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Mrs. Akpan who prior to her arrest operated a maternity home in Agege area ...
A pastor, Wisdom Matthew, alongside one Ifeanyi Onuoha, 29, have been dragged before a Magistrates’ Court on Lagos Island on a two-count charge of abduction. The police alleged in the charge sheet No. G/23/2011 that the accused persons and others...