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Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has urged South-South governors to adopt investment strategies that would translate to economic growth and development. Oshiomhole made the call in Asaba on Thursday at the second South-South Summit organised by the region....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday in Abuja condemned the bomb blasts that rocked newspaper houses in Abuja and Kaduna, saying the attacks were ''tragic and cowardly''. The Secretary of the congress, Mr Owei Lakemfa, who said...
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerians to drop lingering clamour for national conference, saying it is no longer necessary in view of emerging democratic liberties. In place of the conference, he called for regional groupings, which would, rat...
President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his administration’s commitment to addressing factors militating against the implementation of revolutionary programmes in the South-South region. Jonathan, represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, ga...
As political tension mounts in Edo State ahead of the July 14 governorship election, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, challenged the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate, Major General Charles Airhiavbere(rtd) to explain...
Osun State, known for its peaceful atmosphere, has been engulfed in a battle of supremacy between the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). SEFIU AYANBIMPE analyses how the high wire politics in the state has taken...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has said that the party has yet to anoint any candidate for the 2015 presidential polls. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, remarked that t...
With less than one year into his four-year administration, friends and well wishers of Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State are already strategizing on how to return the governor in 2015 general elections. LEADERSHIP learnt that the friends ...
The bill for an Act to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act of 2007 passed the second reading at the Senate on Wednesday. The bill seeks to amend the act to compel the bank to submit its budget to the National Assembly for approval every ...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the award of more than N90.7 billion contract for strategic gas supply to various power generation plants in the country. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku disclosed this after the Co...
Alhaji Sa’ád Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, says he will only identify with and support any government that cares for the people. Abubakar made the statement when he paid a courtesy call on Gov. Sule Lamido of Jigawa in Dutse...
Activities at Lagos State general hospitals were on Wednesday at a low ebb following the indefinite strike embarked on by doctors on Tuesday. Doctors, under the aegis of Medical Guild, Lagos, had embarked on an indefinite strike, following the s...
Forty four inmates of the Bauchi Central Prison were on Wednesday granted amnesty by the Bauchi State Government. Mr Al-Mustapha Hassan, Bauchi Commissioner for Justice, disclosed this to newsmen in Bauchi at the end of visits to the prison. He ...
Miss Folake Oyahire, sister of allegedly murdered banker, Mrs Titilayo Arowolo, on Wednesday said that her sister's husband, Akolade Arowolo, had previously demonstrated traits of violence before her sister’s death. The News Agency of ...
Mr Emmanuel Ayeni, the Plateau Commissioner of Police, has confirmed that five persons were killed and many others injured in a midnight attack in Riyom on Tuesday. Riyom is the headquarters of Riyom Local Government of Plateau. ``There wa...