Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom says security is the key to national development. Akpabio said this in Uyo when members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors paid him a courtesy visit. The editors were in Uyo for the 8th All Nigeria Editors’ C...
The Delta State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Kingsley Eze Emu, in this interview with LEADERSHIP’S KOLA NIYI-EKE, speaks about the state’s government strategies to create employment for school leavers. He also speaks on the conte...
The Federal Governemnt has approved the inclusion of military retirees and their immediate families in the National Health Insurance Scheme’s (NHIS). The Federal Executive Council (FEC) gave the approval at its meeting yesterday chaired by ...
Nigeria needs 1,320,135 teachers to meet the demands of basic education by 2015, the Executive Secretary of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof. Mohammed Ibn Junaid, has said. He asserted that the nation needs to produce a ...
The head of Libya's National Congress on Wednesday blamed the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, in which the U.S. ambassador and three others were killed, on loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi. ``This cowardly deed is an epis...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the readmission of Dr. Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, into the party. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Olisa Metuh, th...
The Comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Kano State, Dr Brasca Ifeadi, has warned officers of the command against ``illegal operations''. He gave the warning on Wednesday while decorating 124 newly promoted officers wi...
Dr Solomon Nyagba, the President of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ABUCCIMA), said the 7th Abuja International Trade Fair would gulp about N30 billion. Nyagba, who gave the figure at a press conference in Abuja on Wedne...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Oluseyin Petirin, on Wednesday commended the citizens of Borno State for their support to security agencies in the ongoing efforts to end the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists. Petirin gave the commendation...
The World Bank is to inject 400 million dollars into irrigation development projects in Nigeria over the next four years, Mr Acheim Fock, Task Team Leader, World Bank Irrigation Project, has said. Fock told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday...
Cumulative worth of shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated on Wednesday after two days of downward trend. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the spring back was due to huge price gains recorded by some major blue chips. ...
An Abuja based group, Conscience Nigeria, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to confer national honour on the athletes who won medals for the country at the just concluded London Paralympic Games. The Executive Director of the group, Mr Tosin Adeyan...
Mr Mike Omeri, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), has suggested that Sept. 16, be observed yearly as a National Symbol Day for Nigeria’s Flag and Coat of Arms. Omeri, who made the proposal at a news conference in Abuja on We...
Somalia's new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and the visiting Kenyan Foreign Minister on Wednesday escaped an apparent suicide bomb attack on a Mogadishu hotel. They were holding a news conference at the hotel when the bomb exploded but they were ...
A former Managing Director of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, on Wednesday told an Ikeja High Court in Lagos that he did not steal N47.1 billion from the bank. Akingbola made the denial while testifying at his ongoing trial before Jus...