The naira came under pressure yesterday at the official and interbank market as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) failed to meet demand. The regulator sold $250 million out of the $419.22 million demanded at the official bi-weekly auction. This made th...
Helios Towers Nigeria (HTN), the largest builder and manager of cell sites for telecommunications service providers in Nigeria in general late last week decalred that it has taken total control of Multi-Links Nigeria Limited, the first private telephon...
The ongoing All Judges Conference which began yesterday at the National Judicial Institute (NJI) Abuja, stalled further hearing before the Supreme Court over the appeal by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), challenging the ...
An explosion inside a ship anchored on the Marina end of the Lagos waters killed one, injured three and damaged about 13 cars parked at the premises of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) yesterday. An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP that the explosion occurre...
The standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kogi State, Chief James Ocholi (SAN), has expressed confidence that the ruling People Democratic Party (PDP) will be dislodged in the forthcoming governorship election, just like it ha...
The Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Mr Samuel Ortom, has said that the federal government has released N50billion to be disbursed as interest-free loans to Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs as part of moves to check unemployment in the c...
The zonal director of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Makurdi Network Centre, Mr. Maxwell Loko, has been robbed in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, in his hotel room. Loko, who was transferred to Makurdi a week ago, had been lodging at Hotel ...
Jolted by the death of 700 people from cholera between January and September, the Senate is to organise a public hearing to work out ways to end the menace. Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Gyang Dantong, told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
The Gbagyi Chiefdom yesterday in Kaduna described as false and mischievous the insinuation that one of its communities along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, Gonin Gora, was a killing zone. Addressing newsmen yesterday, the Dakacin Gonin Gora, and Walin Gbagyi...
Tayo Haastrup is the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Management Information Services, National Hospital, Abuja, in this interview with Nanna Selkur and Rose Adah, he stated that the hospital is working round the clock to expand the facilities and manpo...
When one walks through the gates of the National Hospital, there is always this awareness of death lurking somewhere in the neighbourhood. Although the authorities of the hospital have done a great job, keeping the environment very clean and the flower...
A visit to any of the 17 local government council headquarters of Abia State, presents an objectionable picture of truancy. Many employees of the various councils do not bother to come to work at all, while some of those who grudgingly report for...
Former governor of Anambra State, now senator representing Anambra Central in the upper legislative chamber, Dr. Chris Ngige and the immediate past minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyil, are old political war-horses. In the afte...
The President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejiafor, has described the death of Alex Ibru as a big loss to the nation and the media world.In a statement made yesterday in Lagos and made available to the News Agency of Niger...
Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has condoled with the management and staff of The Guardian Newspapers over the death of its publisher, Mr Alex Ibru, describing the death as a great loss to journalism and the nation. In a condolence me...