Mummy I am afraid, let us go and see daddy. Mummy let us go and see grandma,” Faridath Awodele a five-year-old cried as she watched the house she had known as home for her few years of existence on earth being pulled down. While Faridath, who had...
Some call them kongis, others called them baban bola, (not Bola as in Yoruba), they are also known as obu ngwogwo in Igbo language while they call them scavengers in English. But these guys have not been considered for anything even though they risk th...
Indigenous youths of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), under the auspices of Joint Youth Indigenous Communities of Apo Resettlement Site have given the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) a 14-day ultimatum to revoke all commercial plots in...
If there is any road in the country that has portrayed successive governments in the country in bad light as failed governments in the last two decades, it is the Lagos-Sagamu –Ore –Benin road. The controversial road, best described as a de...
Just like other communities in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kpeyegyi community cannot be exempted from those communities yearning for basic amenities. A walk through the community shows pictures that tell ...
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday came very hard on the striking Lagos doctors. He was surely not happy about the effects of the lingering action by 800 doctors under the employ of the Lagos State government clamouring for the full im...
The recent experiences of Nigerians with reference to the erratic delivery of power supply, both for domestic and industrial uses, tend to portray the nation’s quest for stable electricity supply as an exercise in futility. Nigerians are being he...
To say that the nation’s electricity industry is ridden with corruption would be to put it mildly as facts and evidences tendered against officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) at the just concluded metering probe instituted by ...
With less than three years to the 2015 date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it remains a fact the goal of the MDGs to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, is far from being achieved as poverty still remains in ...
As part of measures to boost crossborder trade amongst members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sonnex Packaging Nigeria Limited and Kasapreko Company Limited Of Ghana yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understa...
For Agriculture to play a key role in diversifying the economy, it is needful to have stable policies backed by parliamentary Acts, says Mr. Emma Ajayi, Managing Director/CEO, CG BIOSTADTT. In a chat with LEADERSHIP , ...
Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Establishment, States and Local Government, Senator Aloysius Etok yesterday declared that the Pension Reform Task Team head by Abdulrasheed Maina stole pension funds. Etok who was reacting to an allegation of b...
Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Minister of Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga for the third time yesterday failed to appear before the Senate Committee on Investment to explain ...
The sacked director general of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission (NSE), Mrs. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, yesterday said that despite contrary statements, she remains the director general of the NSE, having been declared so by a High Court ruling ...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday restated that electioneering campaign ahead of the July 14 governorship election in the state must be issue based. This is just as he urged the electorate to ask the opposition Peoples Democratic ...