The death toll in the four-storey building collapse at 4, Mogaji Street, Idumota/Ebute-Ero area, Lagos Island on Tuesday night has continued to increase, largely due to the distortion in the physical planning of the area that has made immediate evacuat...
The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday told the House of Representatives that marketers and cartels were to blame for the scarcity of kerosene across the country. Honouring Tuesday’s invitation by the House to...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has attributed its inability to locate the missing airplane which took off from Kaduna recently to the failure of aircraft operators in the country to register their planes with the National Communication...
Against the backdrop of the recurring ethno-religious clashes recorded in many parts of Nigeria in recent times, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, on Wednesday advocated for the peaceful resolution of such crises. ...
Secretary to the government of the federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has said that the nation has suffered greatly from the damaging effects of corruption. The SGF, who made this comment yesterday in Abuja at the launch of the scoping survey ...
The United Nations has said that Nigeria needs help in order to address the humanitarian situations arising from internally displaced people in some states of the federation. This was disclosed yesterday by the UN Under Secretary General fo...
The members of the Bayelsa State Security Council yesterday met for over eight hours over the rising dissent among hundreds of ex-militant youths. The concerned that they are threatening to launch a co-ordinated attack on oil installations along the cr...
For the second time, the crucial meeting between Ogun State Government and the state chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held yesterday ended in deadlock. The meeting which was held at the governor’s office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta lasted for ho...
The alleged political cold war within the ranks of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over ministerial nominees in Kaduna state yesterday took another turn, with some section of the party members rejecting the replacement of previous nominees. H...
A non-governmental organisation, Millennium Generation Foundation, yesterday announced plans to commence the implementation of projects aimed at empowering youths below the age of 26 across schools in the country. During a visit to LEADERSHIP headquart...
Tragedy struck at Mogaji St. in Idumota area of Lagos Island on Tuesday night when a four-storey building collapsed, killing six people. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the six bodies were removed from the rubbles on Wednesday afternoon b...
The State Security Service (SSS) has said that it has made a headway in its bid to mitigate the menace of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, with the arrest of key cell commanders of the sect along with over 100 other suspects in five northern stat...
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday said the apex bank has given approval-in- principle to Stanbic Bank to operate non-interest (Islamic) banking in the country. Sanusi, who spoke at an international confe...
Contrary to speculations that the managing director of the World Bank and former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been dropped by the presidency as a ministerial nominee, she was at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) in Abu...
The Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it will join a strike for the implementation of the new minimum wage by the Nigeria Labour Congress even as it chided the federal government for allowing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...