The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday tactically devalued the naira from N150.00 to the US $1.00 to N160.00 to US$1.00 and maintained the band of +/-3.0 per cent. “This means that the naira should flo...
Rivers State Police Command yesterday arrested two members of a notorious armed robbery gang believed to have taken part in most of the violent armed robbery incidents recorded in Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs in recent times. Polic...
His songs are party bangers! There is no way you would want to rate a Nigerian artiste without mentioning the award winning ‘Ten Over Ten’ crooner Naetochukwu Chikwe, popularly called Naeto C whose song has become a slang ...
Fuel queues yesterday re-surfaced at petrol stations in Abuja and other states of the federation forcing the price of the product to sell at as high as N72 a litre in some filling stations as against the official price of N65 a litre. Our correspondent...
In the latest piracy research for Nigeria, the value of PC Software theft reached a new peak at $225 million in 2010, as 82 per cent of software deployed on PCs during the year was pirated. Nigeria is experiencing a rising number of what has turn...
The naira came under pressure yesterday at the official and interbank market as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) failed to meet demand. The regulator sold $250 million out of the $419.22 million demanded at the official bi-weekly auction. This made th...
Helios Towers Nigeria (HTN), the largest builder and manager of cell sites for telecommunications service providers in Nigeria in general late last week decalred that it has taken total control of Multi-Links Nigeria Limited, the first private telephon...
The ongoing All Judges Conference which began yesterday at the National Judicial Institute (NJI) Abuja, stalled further hearing before the Supreme Court over the appeal by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), challenging the ...
An explosion inside a ship anchored on the Marina end of the Lagos waters killed one, injured three and damaged about 13 cars parked at the premises of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) yesterday. An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP that the explosion occurre...
The standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi (SAN), has expressed confidence that the ruling People Democratic Party (PDP) will be dislodged in the forthcoming governorship election, just like it ha...
The Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Mr Samuel Ortom, has said that the federal government has released N50billion to be disbursed as interest-free loans to Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs as part of moves to check unemployment in the c...
The zonal director of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Makurdi Network Centre, Mr. Maxwell Loko, has been robbed in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, in his hotel room. Loko, who was transferred to Makurdi a week ago, had been lodging at Hotel ...
Jolted by the death of 700 people from cholera between January and September, the Senate is to organise a public hearing to work out ways to end the menace. Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Gyang Dantong, told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
The Gbagyi Chiefdom yesterday in Kaduna described as false and mischievous the insinuation that one of its communities along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, Gonin Gora, was a killing zone. Addressing newsmen yesterday, the Dakacin Gonin Gora, and Walin Gbagyi...
Tayo Haastrup is the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Management Information Services, National Hospital, Abuja, in this interview with Nanna Selkur and Rose Adah, he stated that the hospital is working round the clock to expand the facilities and manpo...