A bill that seeks to put in place harsher punishment for companies responsible for oil spillage in the country scaled second reading at the Senate yesterday even as Nigeria will lose over $4 billion as a result of the Bonga oil spill. This was revealed...
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, yesterday, in Abuja said that the “LEADERSHIP Person of the Year 2011 Award” conferred on Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), by LEADERSHIP Group, it was well deserved....
Niger State Governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has described as unacceptable, the N350 million monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) recorded by the state’s Board of Internal Revenue. This, he said, was against a monthly revenue target ...
All is now set for the public presentation of Blueprint newspaper today. The event scheduled to take place at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre is billed to mark the first anniversary of the newspaper which hit the street as a daily publication on S...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday, survived moves by some federal lawmakers to rally other members to pass a vote of no confidence on the former’s reign as Speaker, LEADERSHIP reports. Wednesday’s dev...
Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, has donated food items and an undisclosed sums of money to the families of the victims of last Sunday’s attack which claimed nine lives in the Zango area of Bauchi metropolis. The money and food items according ...
The Federal Fire Service (FFS) has cautioned Nigerians not to build houses in flood-prone areas and waterways in order to avoid flood disasters and other related incidents. Speaking yesterday at a three-day workshop for the Controller-General and...
Mobilisation of part-time graduates by some corps producing institutions for service has been identified as one of the challenges that has compounded the process of mobilising legitimate graduates for the one year National Youth Service. This, has impa...
Governor of Borno State and former lecturer, University of Maiduguri, Dr. Kashim Shettima, delivered this paper as the keynote speaker at the 2012 Leadership Annual Conference/Awards organised by LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group yesterday in Abuja All...
Children’s diets are always far from being balanced especially when they are allowed to eat alone. Engaging in communal eating by families usually signifies that there is a kind of bond that holds them together. Apart from this reason, when famil...
As part of plans to evolve more dynamic ways of combating graft in the country, the three major anti-corruption agencies, namely ;the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(IC...
Two suspected drug traffickers have been caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for concealing 2.560kg of cocaine in their travel luggage by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The suspects, Emole Kennedy Uka, 32, ...
The Director-General, Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Vincent Aquah, yesterday disclosed that water from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon has displaced more than 12, 000 people in the state, while one person was reported...
Two trailer loads of human cargo, suspected to be insane people were yesterday intercepted at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State. LEADERSHIP gathered that those conveying the lunatics had attempted to off-load the content of the trailer at the busy Up...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s last-minute winner gave Real Madrid a thrilling victory over Manchester City in a pulsating Champions League clash at the Bernabeu. City took a shock lead through Edin Dzeko’s breakaway goal. Marcelo equalised with a def...