The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) has said that Nigeria would start holding yuan as part of its foreign exchange reserves from the next quarter of this year.The governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who made this remark in an interview yesterday wi...
The Acting National Project Coordinator for the Third National Fadama Development(FADAMA111) Project, Mr.Tayo Adewumi, yesterday disclosed that as at the end of August, the sum of N69.3 million was deposited in Fadama User Equity Fund Account (FUEFA), ...
All is now set for the first Oil and Gas Africa Finance and Investment Conference (OGAFIC) organised by the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA), aimed at sensitising financial institutions on the imperatives of mobilising resources needed to...
The nation’s two-year old banking crisis moved closer to a resolution as First City Monument Bank (FCMB) said it would seek shareholders’ approval on September 29 to acquire Finbank. The bank is among five financially healthy banks se...
When the No. 1 security officer of the country is also hallucinating about the safety of his life, then, nobody else needs to be told that there is trouble in the land.The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim, is sending a message ...
Despite the spate of ethno-religious killings, series of lethal bomb blasts and a litany of other security problems afflicting Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan will still deliver on his campaign promises. This was disclosed by his Special Advisor o...
A 29-year-old man Ibrahim Kpatagi of Kpatagi village of Lavun local government area of Niger State has killed his friend Yabagi Ibrahim, over alleged plot to entice his wife to have an amorous affair. LEADERSHIP gathered that Ibrahim killed Yabagi by s...
The governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam has said that his relationship with the leadership of his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is cordial. He also added that there was no feud between his government and the party both at the State and N...
A Rights group, Save De Masses, has tasked the federal government over the activities of Boko Haram even as it added that it was unfortunate that a sect like the notorious terrorist group existed in Nigeria. The group, according to its national Preside...
Following reports of a long convoy of Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists moving into Niger Republic, the Nigeria Army has assured Nigerians that there is no cause for alarm over security in the country. In the past three days, over 200 army trucks ...
Notable commentator Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar yesterday lamented the insecurity situation in the country, especially the lingering ethno-religious crises ravaging Jos, Plateau State. “Nigeria is on the brink,” said the former military g...
The State Security Service, SSS, yesterday stated that it had uncovered a building in Suleja, Niger State, near Abuja, where improvised explosives devices (IEDs) were assembled. The IEDs were used for the bombing of the INEC office as well as the All C...
Attempts by some “hawks in the presidency” to use the immediate past national coordinator on counter-terrorism, Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim, as a scapegoat amidst insecurity in the country may have backfired. A national daily had reported tha...
Modern technology and latest security gadgets are to be used in the war on terror. This was one of the decisions taken at an emergency Council of State meeting convened by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, yesterda...
Now that the clouds are clear, we know to which direction those who have been handed our economy want to take us. At least, we now know they are pursuing serious fiscal discipline that focuses on reducing wastage that our bloated government is synonymo...