The United Nations (UN) has stressed the importance of literacy in accelerating peace and development, while calling for greater efforts of everyone to read, write and transform their lives. The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repo...
In this interview with DAVID ADUGE-ANI, National President, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), Umaru Aliyu, spoke on the worrisome building collapse syndrome and other challenges facing the building industry in the country. Tell us abo...
Although a survey sometime ago stated that Nigeria was the “Happiest Place on Earth,” EMMA OKEREH, Abuja, STANLEY UZOARU, Owerri, OSA OKHOMINA, Bayelsa, ABU NMODU, Minna and ONYEKAOZURULA OFOMA, Abakiliki report that many Nigerians are beco...
Affordable Energy Solutions has been providing energy In Nigeria, Tukur Kazaure is the MD,CEO, Affordable Energy Solutions LTD. Anthony Ada Abraham writes on his effort for providing energy needs using other means and job creation. Though many Nigerian...
The self-proclaimed holy man has always been a favourite figure for satirical treatments in literary works. The Jero Plays by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, readily come to mind here. But then if you have laughed off Brother Jeroboam’s modus...
The idea of establishing an international institute of journalism to train and retrain journalists in Africa was first mooted at a meeting of the executive committee if the International Organisation of Journalists (OIJ) in 1986. The meeting suggested ...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja yesterday struck out the application filed by the suspended president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami asking the appellate court to direct the Federal High Court in Abuja to adjudicate on his suit bef...
The deputy chairman of the senate committee on petroleum upstream, Senator KabiruMarafa has warned that the insistence of the Central Bank of Nigeria to go ahead and introduce the N5,000 note into the economy despite misgivings by the general public an...
Barely one month after LEADERSHIP Newspapers photojournalist, Mr Ben Uwalaka, was brutalised by mortuary attendants of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital for taking photos of the remains of victims of the Dana air crash, another reporter with the...
The chambers of Festus Keyamo, legal representatives to the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck, has disclosed that, it has already sued the Benue State government client concerning some contractual disputes. A statement issued yesterd...
There was pandemonium in Meiran area of Lagos yesterday morning when protesters believed to be tricycle operators obstructed traffic over a man allegedly shot by a trigger-happy police corporal, attached to Meiran Police station, Mr Abbey Adekunle.&nbs...
The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra state yesterday assumed a new and dangerous dimension, when some unidentified gunmen allegedly stormed the venue of a scheduled state executive meeting in Awka. The party chairman, Comrade Jude Ezenwa...
Nasarawa State chapter of the Action congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday said that it is set to sweep the forth coming local government election in the state. In statement signed by the publicity secretary of the party, Mu’azu Sama’ila, sa...
The Leadership of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly yesterday admitted that members of the House were grilled by the operatives of the anti-fraud department of the Nigeria Police over the controversy triggered by the alleged diversion of N78million a...
The Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos presided over by Hon Justice Abang, in suit no FHC/CS/1054/2012, has restrained Messrs Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese, Yakubu Mohammed and Soji Akinrinade, as well as other interested parties, from acting on behalf of New...