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Controversy over the proposal by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the bankers’ committee to limit cumulative daily cash withdrawals and lodgements in the country from June next year continued to play out as yesterday, the House of Representa...
Former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari has charged leaders at all levels in Nigeria to intensify effort towards providing the people especially in the rural areas with the necessary amenities to ensure the overall development of the nation. The former p...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have once again reiterated the need for alternative entry routes into the city from Nasarawa State. The call follows a multiple accident that occurred along the Abuja-Keffi way on Monday, in which at lea...
Earl “DMX” Simmons was released from an Arizona prison after serving six months for a probation violation. “I’m gonna see my daughter, I just got off the phone with my wife. I’m going to see my daughter while the su...
The federal government yesterday in Abuja arraigned five police chiefs at the Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly killing the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Malam Mohammed Yusuf and his followers. The police chiefs were arraigned on fresh charge ...
Residents of Lugbe community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were penultimate week left in awe as they witnessed one of the most vicious love battles ever in the area. This is as what started as a normal girl fight between two friends, Glory and...
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has said that the provisions of most laws in the country do not encourage development of several sectors of the nation’s economy. This was even as he gets set to avert workers’ strike over demands for...
Flowing from early last month’s declaration by an Abuja Federal High Court that Hon. Eseme Eyiboh is the rightful Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the primary for Eket/Ibeno/Esit/Onna Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom State, and subseq...
Minister for Trade and Investment Promotion, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, has blamed the recent allegation by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) suggesting that President Goodluck Jonathan was unsympathetic to the plight of victims of the recent flooding in ...
Guinean President, Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack on his residence yesterday that killed one person and left his home riddled with bullet holes. There was no official word on who was behind the attack on Conde, who came to po...
Côte d’Ivoire faces multiple challenges after emerging from its recent post-electoral crisis, but none more critical than restoring law and order throughout the West African nation, the top United Nations envoy there said early this week. &ldquo...
On July 11, in the boardroom of the Bank of Industry, a groundbreaking partnership was unveiled to the media. The partnership between the Bank of Industry and the Nigeria Olympic Committee is to exploit all the business opportunities that would be avai...
The zonal co-ordinator of the Association of Nigerian Licenced Customs Agents (ANLCA), in the western zone, Mr. Ozo Chukwurah, has appealed to the Standards Organisation of Nigeria(SON) to save time at the ports while carrying out their regulatory func...
In spite of the reduction of cement price by manufacturers, retailers in Lagos are still selling the product at the old price of N2,100 per 50 kg bag of the leading brands in the market, a survey conducted by LEADERSHIP has revealed. Last week, the Dan...
Africa now accounts for about one per cent of global manufacturing, and cannot realistically hope to reduce widespread poverty if its governments don’t take effective measures to expand this vital economic sector, said a new report by the United ...