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There are strong indications that the Presidency has signified interest to fully implement the report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee that probed the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). UCHENNA AWOM writes that the sudden interest may not be enough poli...
As the site of last Sunday plane crash in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State was fumigated yesterday, some residents of the area have appealed to the authorities to bury the victims far from the area. Their apprehension was based on their belief in the exi...
Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday appealed to members of Akwat Akwop to embrace dialogue and reconsider their stand on a Fulani herdsmen. Akwat Akwop, a self acclaimed Christian Militia group had issued a seven day ultimatum to res...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the bomb explosion at a church in Bauchi which resulted in the loss of many lives with several others injured. The Forum made its position known in a communiqué signed by the National Publicity Secretar...
Stakeholders at a workshop in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, have attributed growing insecurity in the country to youth unemployment. The stakeholders therefore urged governments at all levels to step up their job creation drives to stem the level of...
Speaker of Nasarawa State Assembly, Hon. Musa Mohammed, has said that the lawmakers house passed 21 bills in the past legislative year Ahmed, who disclosed this yesterday at the valedictory session to mark the end of legislative year, also said 12 bill...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has directed joint committees on aviation of the National Assembly to ascertain the air worthiness of all other operating aircraft in the country and make appropriate recommendations. ...
As controversy continues to trail the renaming of University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University by President Goodluck Jonathan last week, former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, yesterday in Benin said that Jonathan should have co...
No fewer than 16 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), were yesterday feared dead, when a combined team of the Army, Police and SSS raided MASSOB offices in the commercial city of Onitsha. 83 members of th...
The First Lady, Patience Goodluck Jonathan has denied the rumour going round that her presence at the airport was what led to the crash of the Dana Air plane on Sunday. The Federal Ministry of Aviation in a statement said the allegations were farther f...
Thursmay Educational Services, owners of the warehouse where the ill-fated Dana Air plane crashed has maintained that the company has lost over N200million worth of goods to the incident. In a chat with LEADERSHIP in his Lagos office, the managing dire...
The Board and Management of Arik Air have expressed their deepest condolences to the management of Dana Air over Sunday’s accident, involving the airline’s Lagos-bound aircraft which crashed in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State. The Exec...
The Estu Nupe and Chairman, Niger state Council of Traditional Rulers Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar has described the recent Dana plane crash as a monumental loss to Nigeria. The traditional ruler who spoke yesterday in Bida urged the federal government...
Hon. Warman Ogoriba represents Yenagoa/Kolokuma/Opokuma federal constituencies of Bayelsa State and chairs the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta. In this interview with OMOTOLA OLORUNTOBI, he bares his mind on current issues affecting t...
Part of the official residence of the governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Patrick Yakowa was yesterday gutted by fire, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that the fire gutted part of the waiting room of the governor&rsquo...