Minister of petroleum resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has said that the federal government was targeting $130 billion investment inflow in the oil and gas sector even as it plans to construct additional 2,000 kilometers of pipeline. Alison-Maduek...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday stated that the current political environment in the country was not healthy enough to allow states to have their own police force. “State police may be theoretically good but, looking at our political enviro...
Over 50,000 Shiite Muslims yesterday staged a peaceful march across Kaduna metropolis and the city of Zaria in remembrance of the late Imam Hussain and his household.The members of the Shiite in Zaria, who wore black dresses, sang dirges expressing sad...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has stated that the party has sufficient evidence to ensure that the victory of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) at last weekend’s governorship election is upturned. Speaking yesterday in ...
The political tempo in Edo State yesterday heightened as Governor Adams Oshiomhole renewed call on the National Assembly to probe the N300 billion reportedly given to the former Minister of Works for road construction while the ex-minister ...
As the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) nationwide strike enters its third day, students and parents have started counting their losses, even as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) appealed to both the Federal Govern...
The National Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, yesterday, disclosed that the remains of ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, will be flown into Nigeria from London before the end of January 2012. Umeh...
The federal government and the Senate yesterday moved to block plans to increase the funding of the Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) by 30 percent. Senator Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger) who sponsored the original bill h...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said Nigeria is ready to cooperate with Germany to strengthen its financial system. CBN’s Head, Corporate Communication, Mr. Mohammed Abdullahi in a statement said tha...
Eleven suspects were yesterday arrested by the Sokoto State Police Command for allegedly vandalising cables and other facilities belonging to NITEL Plc. in Sokoto and its environs. The facilities, LEADERSHIP learnt, were worth several millions of Naira...
A group of suspected members of the gay community in New York on Monday protested against the recently passed bill that prohibited same-sex marriage in Nigeria. The placard-carrying protesters, numbering some 15, made up of blacks and whites, claimed t...
The House Committee Chairman on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Honourable Adams Jagaba, on Tuesday, advanced strong reasons for an enhanced funding of the activities and operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ja...
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega on Monday in Abuja swore in eight new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). They are Mr. Gabriel Ada, Prof. Istifanus Dafirang and Messrs Samuel Usma and Law Azubike. Others are Sylvester Ezani, Minkaila Abdullahi,...
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Osita Chidoka, has refuted insinuations that the new driver’s licence and number plate project was intended to generate revenue. This was just as the chairman of the House of Rep...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday vowed not to go back to the classroom until its demands were fully met by the federal government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) also reported from Lagos that ASUU began a nationwide indefinit...