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The governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has expressed the readiness of his administration to partner with construction gaint, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc in the area of road construction. Governor Aregbesola stated this in Osogbo yesterday during ...
The Nasarawa State Government has warned that it will no longer tolerate any act of sabotage or vandalisation of public facilities. Governor Tanko Almakura gave the warning while inaugurating an electricity transformer at Angwan Lambu in the Keffi Loca...
Shareholders of Honeywell Flour Mills Plc yesterday at the company’s 2nd Annual General Meeting approved the company’s dividend of 13kobo even as the company is set to commission its two new production lines in 2012. The production line wil...
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has stated that contrary to speculations in some quarters that it was only the former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu it singled out of the 15 ex-governors the bureau indicted four years ago, the CCB insisted yesterday...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested an Abuja-based contractor, Chinyere Achigbu, owner of Hardcore Builders Limited over his alleged failure to complete a project for which the owner had paid over 90 per cent of the contrac...
The federal government has expressed worry over the dearth of structured staff training in the power sector. Consequently, the Ministry of Power has been directed to restore the structured training programmes for workers in the sector as soon as possib...
A cross section of Nigerians at the weekend in Lagos, urged the federal government to come out and clear the air on the fuel subsidy policy. Prominent Nigerians who spoke to LEADERSHIP at separate interviews differed on the way they perceived the polic...
With the price of kerosene still beyond the reach of the average Nigerian ,Lagos State Government has urged Lagosians to embrace the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) popularly refered to as cooking gas as an alternative to kerosene and other petrol...
Nigeria relied heavily on defense to wade-off the stiff challenge pose by Cameroon in a group-B game on Sunday at the 22nd Afrobasket for Women.Nigeria, who picked the second and third quarters by 20-10 and 13-11 points after tying the first quarter wi...
The introduction of the Pension Reform Act was perceived by many to be a step in the right direction, towards addressing the malaise in the sector. But there are two sides to a coin. Nanna Selkur takes a look at the unpopular side of the Act and the wa...
Magistrates in the country have been advised to show a high level of integrity in the dispensation of justice in line with their responsibilities as enshrined in the code of conduct for judicial officers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The administ...
The Niger State government has disclosed that it requires about N200billion to settle the entitlements of about 12,000 retirees from both the state and the 25 local government areas in the state. The chairman of the state pension board, Alhaji Benu Ahm...
The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has disclosed that about 64,000 candidates have so far been offered admission into tertiary institutions of their choices by the board, this year. Ojerinde said t...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday advised the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, to treat with the caution, the crisis of confidence that had recently rocked the foundation of the country’s judiciary. Jonathan stated th...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal yesterday criticised the Federal Government policies of granting indiscriminate waivers to companies offering diverse services, describing it as inimical to the growth of the nation’s e...