The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has joined its counterparts all over the world to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP).Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP)...
The Federal Government has given flour millers in the country a three-month ultimatum to commence the 10 per cent substitution of cassava flour for wheat flour being imported into the country.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwu...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday faulted the decision of the federal government to withdraw some regulatory agencies from all the entry points across the country, asking it to revert back to the former arrangement.Specifically, the members have ...
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority, Dr. Noble Abe, has identified technical inefficiency as the major reason for premium motor spirit (PMS) or petrol importation in the country and advised the federal g...
Bowleven , a West African oil and gas group, based in Edinburgh and traded on AIM since December 2004 has announced the discovery of oil at the Sapele-3 exploration well drilling in the Douala Basin, offshore Cameroon.Chief Executive, Kevin Hart,...
Skye Bank has posted a gross earning of N73.3 billion in the third quarter ended September 30,2011, an 11 per cent growth over the N66.2 billion posted in the comparable period of last year.Profit after tax also rose by nearly 10 per cent to N9.4 billi...
The governors of Edo and Rivers States,Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Mr. Rotimi Amaechi have faulted the federal government on the allocation of about 73 per cent of the total budget to recurrent expenditure.The governors said this yesterday...
Women who are stressed while trying to conceive are more likely to have girls, research suggests.According to the new study , women who were under pressure at home, work or in their love lives in the weeks or months before getting pregnant had higher c...
Determined to help the unhappy, SOLOMON NDA-ISAIAH writes that Kambili Osadolor-Ehima is at home with making orphans feel a sense of belonging. I could not bear the sight of the deplorable building. It was too really bad. The roof, walls, w...
Poverty, a state of being poor, has been identified as one of the factors that lead to the inherent challenges of social equality in a country like Nigeria richly endowed with natural and mineral resources. Patience Ivie Obhafuoso writes Mo...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State has dismissed a petition by Hon. Atai Aidoko, challenging the election of Senator Emmanuel Dangana as lawmaker representing the eastern flank of the state.Delivering judgment yesterday,t he ...
A Federal High Court in Jos yesterday discharged and acquitted six suspects accused of participating in the January 20 crisis in the Plateau State capital.The suspects are Alhassan Mohammed, Abubakar Samaila, Abubakar Shuaibu, Buhari Dahiru, Ibrahim Mu...
In Nigeria, the security situation in recent time has become precarious, posing serious challenges to the survival of the nation’s nascent democracy. CHRISTIANA ESEBONU writes that the recent arming of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps...
The federal government yesterday shunned state governors and went on to launch the controversial Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) with a series of initial steps designed to build a strong foundation for achieving the objectives of the fund as encapsulated i...
Jakartapost, the website that published story about Nigeria’s plan to build three refineries in Indonesia, last week Thursday, said it goofed, LEADERSHIP can exclusively report. A senior editor with Jakartapost, Andi Haswidi, told LEADERSHI...