The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Custom Service has issued a two-week deadline to importers and their clearing agents who are yet to register for the Taxpayers Identification Number (TIN) which is an inter-connectivity project introduced for the...
The facelifted Acura TL made its world premiere at the Chicago Auto Show. The 2012 model year brings a fresh look for the front and rear ends of the mid-sized sedan along with a new Sequential SportShift 6-speed automatic transmission and equipment upg...
Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has said that the Ministry’s 2012 budget is tailored towards achieving Federal Government’s Transformation Agenda, especially in the area of employment generation and industrial peace a...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the International Confederation of Trade Union Congress (ITUC) have called on the three tiers of government in Nigeria - federal, state and local - to end violence and the...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned world leaders that there is an urgent challenge to create 600 million productive jobs over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion in 2012. This was dis...
The Benue State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Omadachi Oklobia recently spoke to journalists on the 2012 budget and the controversies surrounding the implementation of the 2011 Budget in Benue State. Solomon Ayado was there for LEADERSHIP. The state gov...
Northern emirs and chiefs, who met last Tuesday in Kaduna, have refuted reports in a section of the media that they met to take a position on the conviction of former chief security officer to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, by a La...
The United States ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, has denied reports that his country predicted that Nigeria would break up by 2015. The envoy, who was in Ibadan yesterday, explained that the prediction was done by a private agency t...
The Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Sudirman Haseng, has said that Nigeria can overcome the difficult security challenges that it is currently facing. Ambassador Haseng stated this yesterday when he visited the corporate office of LEADERSHIP Newspape...
A new twist to the Boko Haram saga emerged yesterday night as an unidentified caller claiming to be the spokesman of the sect, Abul Qaqa, who was said to be in the custody of a security agency, insisted that he was not the one arrested, but rather a ju...
A Senior Magistrate Court sitting in Katsina State has ordered the remand of a police corporal, Abutu Garba, in prison custody over alleged rape of a crippled mother and her daughter. The prosecuting police officer, Mr. Okoli Usman, told the court that...
FRANCIS AGBO writes on the political ambition of Mohammed Buba Marwa, governorship candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa State for tomorrow’s polls. He is respected in the country. In Borno and Lagos states where he had h...
The Nigerian Army on Thursday in Jos reiterated its resolve to put an end to the activities of the Boko Haram sect and other religious extremists. Maj.-Gen. Adamu Marwa, the GOC, 3 Armoured Division, who gave the warning in a statement, said the Divisi...
Six persons were killed on Wednesday night at Shehuri North of Maiduguri Metropolis, Bauchi State. The spokesperson of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col. Hassan Moh'd confirmed the incident. He said investigation shows that the deceased persons m...
Football enthusiasts on Thursday in Lagos expressed shock over the death of a former Super Falcons’ player, Felicia Eze, who died in Anambra, aged 38. In separate interviews with newsmen, the fans described Eze's death as a great loss to the ...