The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan must assure Nigerians of their protection and faulted the decision of the federal government to move the venue of the nation’s 51st independence anniversar...
Documents that have emerged from court cases against oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria reveal that in the 1990s it routinely worked with Nigeria’s military to suppress resistance to its activities, often from activi...
Borno State governor Alhaji Kashim Shettima stated yesterday that security forces have arrested a top commander of Boko Haram accused of orchestrating attacks on policemen and clerics. “I believe the worst is over,” Shettima to...
Senior Advocate of Nigeria Sebastian Hon and human rights activist Femi Falana have challenged the plan to shut down telecommunications services in Abuja on October 1 over security concerns. The duo, who spoke at separate interviews with L...
The 2011 Annual Lecture and Awards by Conferences Limited, a subsidiary of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, comes up in Abuja today. According to a statement by LEADERSHIP, the conference, which holds at the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotel...
The 2011 Annual Lecture and Awards by Conferences Limited, a subsidiary of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, will come up in Abuja on Thursday.According to a statement by LEADERSHIP, the conference, which will hold at the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton...
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr. Mohammed Sada, has attributed the backwardness of the mineral sector to poor arithmetic planning. Sada spoke with journalists while leading a delegation on an assessment visit to the National Geosciences...
Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has expressed displeasure over the mismanagement of state resources over the years. The governor made his feeling known while inspecting some of the state owned properties in Kaduna where he attended the m...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday took a swipe at those he described as troublemakers, saying: “God will soon expose the foreheads of Nigeria’s Goliaths”. Sounding ecclesiastical in a rendition that was packed with religious flavo...
Despite the stiff opposition from the 36 state governors over the propriety of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), the federal government would not reverse itself on the issue, as it is presently finalising the fund’s implementation framework which ...
The Northern Traditional Rulers Council headed by the Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar yesterday stated that the lingering crises rocking the region can only be addressed by the northern governors through utilisation of state resources and giving more prior...
Central Bank of Nigeria governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been named winner of the 2011 Central Bank Governor of the Year Award for Sub-Saharan Africa, for the second consecutive year, by the international magazine Emerging Markets. The CBN stat...
The National Examination Council, NECO, yesterday released the results of the June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination with less than 30 per cent of the candidates scoring credit passes in English and Mathematics. The registrar ...
In his efforts to curtail the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has launched the ‘Cross Border Initiative’ and called fo...
A former national secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Dr Usman Bugaje, has said that the trial of the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, is a political witch-hunt by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which has a number of its o...