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The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) has said that banks operating within the Federal Capital Territory recorded a 74.16 per cent fall in cheque transactions within a period of one year. Giving the figure at the weekend in Abuja, the Branch Controller, CBN...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the 17 chairmanship seats and 259 out of the 260 councillorship seats in Enugu State. Announcing the results of the council poll which took place last Saturday, the chairman of the Enugu State Independent Elec...
The Federal Government says it is resolutely committed to transforming the society by vigorously pursuing its priority programmes of development of infrastructure. Vice-President Namadi Sambo stated this at the public presentation of Steering News Maga...
One woman was killed while two others sustained gunshot wounds following an attack on Kukum Dutse, a village in Kagoro, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. “The village was attacked in the midnight; one person was killed while two sustai...
Tiger Woods finally got a win at last week’s Chevron World Challenge. He donated the $1.2 m to his charity the Tiger Woods Foundation—not a bad little tax deduction. But what is next for Tiger? I do not think we will see him at the Franklin...
Nkem Osuagwu takes a look at some issues highlighted by the Bilateral Air Services Agreement dispute between Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Though the controversy over what some people have referred to as the lopsided implementation of Bilatera...
JUWE OLUWAFEMI writes on the several top-notch business executives living the fast life on sea. They say it’s an experience they won’t trade for anything in this world because of the therapeutic feeling they get from it. For G...
CHIKA OKEKE of LEADERSHIP SUNDAY observes that Kabusa, a hidden, but fast growing community in the FCT appears unworried about the administration’s impending restoration of the Abuja master plan, unlike other slum settlements already yielding to ...
The battle for the control of the Southern Ijaw Local Government Coucnil area of Bayelsa State between loyalsist of President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday deepened with the resolution of the members of the Legislative arm of t...
The erstwhile secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has warned his party to eschew the politics of handpicking candidates for various positions, instead of letting voters’ decision prevail. The ex-minister of f...
Taking holistic ex-ray of the happenings in the country, the Sultan of Sokoto and President Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday saidthat the “problems facing us in this country are l...
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, urged leaders of Western Australia’s solid minerals industry to invest their resources, skills, expertise and technology in the development of Nigeria’s solid minerals sector, saying that his administ...
Frequent vehicle accidents on Nigerian roads claim the life of a child every three minutes, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The executive director, Accident Prevention And Rescue Initiative, Prince Fidelis Nnadi, gave the WHO statisti...
As the first phase of the Sokoto State University project nears completion and its scheduled 2013 kick-off date, the state governor, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has said that there is no going back on his administration’s bid to enhance the educat...
Two blasts rocked Jos, the Plateau State capital on Saturday, with one death and a number of injuries reported at a bar where fans watched the Barcelona-Real Madrid match. One of the explosions was said to have occurred near the outdoor bar where resid...