Pakistan is food sufficient and produces more wheat than the entire Africa. In this interview with RUTH YAMTA, the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan in Nigeria, Ahmed Ali Sirohey, shares his country’s successes in agriculture and textile indus...
All eyes would beam on the Senate Committee on Aviation today as it commences probe on the anti-competive practices allegedly perpetrated by foreign airlines within nation’s aviation sector. The public hearing which will hold at the Senate would ...
Nigeria’s main focus during this year’s edition of the Arabian Travel Market is to woo investors from around the world to invest in the tourism sub-sector of the economy, the Director-General, NTDC, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has said. Nigeria w...
The epileptic power supply currently being experienced in some parts of the country, particularly in Lagos State is to witness an improvement by the end of this month. Two power plants Egbin and Olorunsogo which are the major power sources to Lagos and...
Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, the Benue state Governor Gabriel Suswam and the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Prof. Steven Ugba, yesterday, resolved to put behind their political differences in the interest of the...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has expelled the chairman of the Bauchi State Chapter of the party, Alhaji Barau Ningi. Alhaji Ningi was expelled for insubordination and intransigence, and for running a parallel executive that the party...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, was yesterday thrown into mourning, following the shocking murder of one it members, Comrade Chuks Ogu, by suspected armed robbers in Benin City, Edo State. Ogu, 39, was until his death, a cameraman with Independe...
The 15-year-old marriage between an Asaba-based businessman, Emeka (surname withheld) and a daughter of a prominent high chief in Asaba, Delta State last Saturday packed up, following an alleged illicit homo-sexual act by the man. The man was allegedly...
The Enugu State Police Command has advised Spaniards in the country not to panic over the abduction of their kinsman, assuring that it was working hard to ensure the release of the medical practitioner. Speaking with LEADERSHIP yesterday , the Police P...
The chairman national council of Ulama of Izalatil Bidiah Waikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, has insisted that there is more to the Boko Haram phenomenon than meets the eye even as he accused the west of accomplice. Sheikh Jingir, w...
Kaduna State government has called for a review of the revenue allocation formula so as to improve its receipts from the Federation Allocation Accounts Committee (FAAC). It said that what it was presently receiving was so meager and that the stat...
The Department of State Security Service (SSS) has arrested some union leaders of National Examinations Council (NECO), even as federal government renewed the appointment of Professor Promise Okpala, the embattled registrar of the council for another t...
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has decried the spate of violence in the country, describing the ugly trend as alien to our culture. The governor who stated this in Lokoja during the official launching of the new identity card designed for civi...