The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Nigeria’s apex private sector advocacy group with commitment to fostering open and continuous dialogue on the country’s economic development, will on Tuesday October 18, 2011, host Chairman of the...
As part of efforts to facilitate increased lending to the agriculture sector of the economy, the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), has given the sum of N1 billion to rural microfinance banks.Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the financial linkage forum held by R...
Generally speaking, the basic cause of the violence in nearly all the communities concerned is political. Ethno-religious sentiments were brought into the issue through negative campaigns and rumour mongering by unscrupulous individuals to achieve thei...
In a bid to meet up with the target of the federal government for Education For All come 2015, NGOs have been springing up to contribute their quota in the attainment of Universal Basic Education. One of such is the Ilimun Wal Hikma Islamic Foundation ...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Dr Saidu Jen as the substantive Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Bali, Taraba state.The appointment which is for a term of four years in the first instance was conveyed in a letter by the Honour...
The senate yesterday resolved to investigate the operations of the fuel subsidy scheme even as senators were sharply divided over whether the controversial fuel subsidy should remain or not. After a heated debate on the subsidy scheme, the senate manda...
The Judge of Shari’ah Court of Appeal, Ilorin, Justice Solihu Mohammed, who was attacked last week by unknown gunmen, will be flown abroad today for further medical attention. LEADERSHIP investigation indicated that the recuperating judge left Il...
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians that the worsening insecurity of lives and property in the country is a passing phase, saying that the country will soon overcome it as all other great nations have done before a...
The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 24 year-old Nigerian accused of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound flight on December 25, 2009, yesterday began before a United States court in Detroit, Michigan just as the suspect appeared to be on a mission fo...
There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan is wooing senators and members of the House of Representatives to support his planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products. Also the Senate may debate the subsidy issue today after...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday presented 10 witnesses before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting before the Court of Appeal in Abuja and officially closed its defence. One of the witnesses called yesterday by the PDP, Mr. ...
The Director of FCT Water Board, Mr. Jibril Ibrahim, has attributed broken and leaking pipelines to the dirty water sometimes supplied to consumers in Abuja. Jibril, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the pipes were flushed periodicall...
Over 60 per cent of the containers entering Nigeria are not inspected at the ports. The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has revealed. Director- General, SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, said these containers were sneaked into the...
The global community can help poor countries weather the current slowdown in the world economy by keeping trade flowing, encouraging investment and making good on aid promises, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. IMF Managing Di...
The National Automotive Council (NAC) said that the bulk of Nigeria resources were expended annually on importation of vehicles into the country. The Director - General of NAC, Aminu Jalal,made this disclosure recently when he received in audienc...