Dangote Cement Plc is targeting a Profit Before Tax (PAT) of N38.5 billion for the first quarter ending March 31, 2012.In a filing at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the company also sees a turnover of N69.16 billion during the first quarter. Accord...
Despite the thin trading recorded on the equity market following sustained skeletal operations through the remote trading facility of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) arising from the nationwide strike declared by the labour leaders and coalition of c...
Resolution efforts focusing on the downstream petroleum sector deregulation crisis has brought out different intervention styles from the the nation’s bicameral legislature, writes UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis The agitation against the rem...
The, Commissioner of Police Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Mr. Michael Zuokumor, has disclosed that over 150 security operatives from the Police, Military, SSS and some paramilitary organisations are patrolling Abuja to guarantee safety of li...
Long queues yesterday reappeared at various filling stations in Makurdi following the two-day suspension of the week-long nationwide strike called by organised labour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspension which...
Bauchi State Governor Malam Isa Yuguda has promised to offer political appointments and jobs to the 152 former members of the dreaded ‘sara suka’ gang in the state who renounced their membership and surrendered their weapons. The gove...
A combined team of fire fighters from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Julius Berger and the Nigerian Federal Fire Service saved the Senate chamber of the National Assembly from being razed by fire. An eyewitness who spoke with LEADERSHIP SUNDA...
As more Nigerians continue to react to the subsidy removal by the Federal Government, a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Ibrahim Masari, yesterday, accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of being insensitive to th...
Anglican Bishop of Evo Diocese in Rivers State, Rt. Rev. Innocent Ordu, has urged Nigerians irrespective of religious and political affiliations to live in peace. Ordu stated this on Friday night while delivering a sermon at Saint Barnabas Anglican Chu...
Self Employed Drivers Association, Abuja (SECDAA) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) are entangled in a legal battle over the control of the road transport sub-sector in Nasarawa State. According to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY findings, tro...
A long established legal ethic well respected across the world emphasises that “he who alleges-as a prosecutor, must prove”. In the like-manner as “the onus of proof lies on he who asserts”. But, the trial of Major Al-Mustapha r...
Barely one week after the federal government declared a state of emergency in 15 local government areas of four states in the North, bombs and killings have not abated. No fewer than twenty persons may have lost their lives in more than five different ...
Nigeria has lost between N100 and N144 billion daily due to the strike action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to protest the over 116 per cent increase in the price of premium motor spirit, also called pet...
The Ondo State Judiciary has been assured of a better deal in 2012, particularly in the areas of infrastructural development and provision of enabling environment for quick dispensation of justice. Giving this assurance, the state governor, Dr. Olusegu...
Alhaji Garba Haruna, an Islamic cleric and chairman, Northern Traditional Council in Awka, has urged Muslims who fled Anambra to return, saying there was no threat to their lives. Haruna, who is the Sarkin Hausawa of Awka Central Mosque, made the...