The Federation of Informal Workers’ Organization of Nigeria (FIWON) has commended the Lagos State Government for its recent initiative of signing the newly enacted Lagos Tenancy Bill into law, insisting that there is the need for more social hous...
The 2011 Annual Lecture and Awards by Conferences Limited, a subsidiary of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, will come up in Abuja on Thursday.According to a statement by LEADERSHIP, the conference, which will hold at the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton...
No fewer than 8,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Niger State ahead of the local government election scheduled for next month in the state. The leader of the defectors, Moham...
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Mohammed Sada, has attributed the backwardness of the mineral sector to poor arithmetic planning. Sada spoke with journalists while leading a delegation on an assessment visit to the National Geosciences...
Stakeholders on Emergency Management in Nigeria (SEMN) have attributed the recurring devastating effects of natural and man-induced disasters in some parts of the country to lack of legally-backed and functional state emergency management agencies (SEM...
Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako has tasked traditional rulers to take advantage of the responsibilities of their positions to preach the gospel of peace to their subjects regardless of their tribal, ethnic or religious affiliations. This was e...
The National Insurance Commission, (NAICOM ), has engaged the services of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Fire Safety and Environment Surveillance of Nigeria (FSESN) to ensure a compulsory insurance implementation in the country. Speaking to newsmen i...
Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has expressed displeasure over the mismanagement of state resources over the years. The governor made his feeling known while inspecting some of the state owned properties in Kaduna where he attended the m...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday took a swipe at those he described as troublemakers, saying: “God will soon expose the foreheads of Nigeria’s Goliaths”. Sounding ecclesiastical in a rendition that was packed with religious flavo...
Despite the stiff opposition from the 36 state governors over the propriety of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), the federal government would not reverse itself on the issue, as it is presently finalising the fund’s implementation framework which ...
The Northern Traditional Rulers Council headed by the Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar yesterday stated that the lingering crises rocking the region can only be addressed by the northern governors through utilisation of state resources and giving more prior...
Central Bank of Nigeria governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been named winner of the 2011 Central Bank Governor of the Year Award for Sub-Saharan Africa, for the second consecutive year, by the international magazine Emerging Markets. The CBN stat...
The Chief of Army Staff, (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has drawn a distinction between promotion in the military and traditional titles, saying it is not similar to chieftaincy title. Ihejirika, who drew the distinction on Friday in ...
Non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities under the auspices of Joint Action Committee (JAC) has threatened to resume its suspended strike by October 3, 2011 if the Federal Government failed to implement the collective agreement with the workers. &nb...
The CBN has started making proactive moves to address the envisaged excess liquidity in the financial sector and maintain a single digit inflation rate.The apex bank this week increased the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 8.75 to 9.25 per cent, after t...