The Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) says it will set up zonal reconciliation committees to ensure that aggrieved party members return to the fold. This is contained in a statement signed by the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tuku...
Hon. Saidu Adamu is the Kaduna State Commissioner for Information and Home Affairs. In this interview with ISAIAH BENJAMIN, he affirms that the state government is making effort to address salary irregularities in the state. He explains why the state g...
LEADERSHIP investigation has revealed that the withdrawal of the national honour awarded to the Taraba State deputy governor, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, by President Goodluck Jonathan may not be unconnected with the impeachment notice hanging on the...
Fulani cattle breeders and Tiv farmers from Benue State yesterday held a peace summit in Abuja to end the protracted conflict between them. The summit, which was organised by the Women Environmental Programme (WEP), brought together critical stakeholde...
A bill that seeks to put in place harsher punishment for companies responsible for oil spillage in the country scaled second reading at the Senate yesterday even as Nigeria will lose over $4 billion as a result of the Bonga oil spill. This was revealed...
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, yesterday, in Abuja said that the “LEADERSHIP Person of the Year 2011 Award” conferred on Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), by LEADERSHIP Group, it was well deserved....
Niger State Governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has described as unacceptable, the N350 million monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) recorded by the state’s Board of Internal Revenue. This, he said, was against a monthly revenue target ...
All is now set for the public presentation of Blueprint newspaper today. The event scheduled to take place at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre is billed to mark the first anniversary of the newspaper which hit the street as a daily publication on S...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday, survived moves by some federal lawmakers to rally other members to pass a vote of no confidence on the former’s reign as Speaker, LEADERSHIP reports. Wednesday’s dev...
Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, has donated food items and an undisclosed sums of money to the families of the victims of last Sunday’s attack which claimed nine lives in the Zango area of Bauchi metropolis. The money and food items according ...
The Federal Fire Service (FFS) has cautioned Nigerians not to build houses in flood-prone areas and waterways in order to avoid flood disasters and other related incidents. Speaking yesterday at a three-day workshop for the Controller-General and...
Mobilisation of part-time graduates by some corps producing institutions for service has been identified as one of the challenges that has compounded the process of mobilising legitimate graduates for the one year National Youth Service. This, has impa...
Governor of Borno State and former lecturer, University of Maiduguri, Dr. Kashim Shettima, delivered this paper as the keynote speaker at the 2012 Leadership Annual Conference/Awards organised by LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group yesterday in Abuja All...
Children’s diets are always far from being balanced especially when they are allowed to eat alone. Engaging in communal eating by families usually signifies that there is a kind of bond that holds them together. Apart from this reason, when famil...
As part of plans to evolve more dynamic ways of combating graft in the country, the three major anti-corruption agencies, namely ;the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(IC...