Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor Nsima Ekere on Wednesday resigned his position, a statement said in Uyo. The statement, issued by the Deputy Governor’s Press Secretary, Mr Inem Ina, said Ekere resigned on personal grounds. It said Ekere exp...
The union leaders of Power Holdings Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have began to mobilise its workers to disrupt attempts by investors who want to take over the company. This was disclosed in a telephone interview by the President of the Senior Staff Associ...
Wife of the Oyo State Governor Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, has attributed the rumour of her purported arrest in London, United Kingdom, to the handiwork of mischief makers who are playing dirty politics to tarnish her reputation, which she has kept as the w...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday reacted to the statement of President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday on the fight against corruption which involved some governors and subsidy thieves. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP, the N...
The Presidential Task Force on Petroleum Sector Reforms led by Mr. Nuhu Ribadu has uncovered the failure of government to meet up with its financial obligations to its joint venture partners. The task force also discovered that the estimated cumulative...
As the Presidency promises to track down and prosecute all indicted oil marketers, there are reports that President Goodluck Jonathan has shunned attempts by some marketers to meet him, even as he was said to have warned his aides against dealing with ...
The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, yesterday, accused governors of denigrating the image of President Goodluck Jonathan and lamented that there was inadequate Federal Government presence in the states. Maku who stated this at the Banquet Ha...
Despite the worrisome level of insecurity in Nigeria and the north in particular, corps members serving in Sokoto State have said the hospitality of the people makes the region a good place to serve. Most of them said they contemplated giving up the Na...
The maiden edition of Oba Okunade Sijuwade annual leadership lecture and award ceremony will be held at Ile-Ife, Osun State, this Saturday. The event, which is being put together by Ife Business School will hold at Aquarium events Centre, Parakin, Obal...
The crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly is far from over,as one of the factional groups yesterday flouted the directive of the national assembly,holding session at the assembly complex. LEADERSHIP gathered that 11 out of the 12 members of t...
Piqued by the recent bomb blast at Saint Rita Catholic Church in Kaduna state which killed over fifteen people and left several others injured, the Plateau State commissioner of police Emmanuel Dipo Ayeni has called on religious leaders and...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has condemned the recent murder of about 20 villagers in Kaboro, Zamfara State, even as it condemned the federal government for failing in delivering the first service to the people - that of secur...
Kaduna State Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa has set up a seven-man committee that would work out modalities for the provision of relief and rehabilitation to those affected by the recent flood in the state. The governor’s action followed the rel...
Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has pledged to donate part of the proceeds from the public presentation of her book, “Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria”, to flood victims acros...
The federal government, yesterday, warned the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme SURE-P committee to avoid corrupt practices that would hamper the success of the scheme Speaking when he inaugurated states implementation committees of commun...