The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), yesterday, closed accounts belonging to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in both Oceanic Bank and Mainstreet Bank, formerly Afri Bank. LEADERSHIP gathered that the NDIC officials visited the ba...
Kaduna State Governor, Mr Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa said yesterday that his administration has achieved maximum success within the last 100 days. Reacting to this claim, the opposing political party Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), argued that the People...
The TY Danjuma Foundation has distributed relief materials to flood victims in Taraba state through the foundation’s ‘Quick Impact Grant Making Scheme’. A statement from the Foundation, which was made available to LEADERSHIP, disclose...
The Head of European Union delegation to Nigeria, Dr. David Macrae, has pledged partnership with the Nigerian government in combating international terrorism, Speaking at the 8th National Seminar On Economic Crime organized by the Economic and Financia...
The federal government has appointed Mr G.C Amuchi as the new managing director for the The Federal Road Maintenance Agency. He replaces Mallam Kabir Abdulahi who was appointed in July 2009 by Late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The government has als...
For Nigeria to remain at par with other developing countries like Malaysia, the country must have sustainable plan of action as embedded in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to attain the much needed development in the sector. This was the submission o...
Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc. has recorded an impressive growth in its half year result as its profit before tax rose by 40 per cent. The unaudited result made available to LEADERSHIP in Lagos showed that PBT went up to N713.6 million compared to N511....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted a licence to Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Standard Bank Group, to operate mobile payment services in the country, a development that will give further impetus to Nigeria’s drive towards a cashless e...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has warned estate owners to desist from over billing residents, urging them to abide by the rules of the industry. Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi, gave this warning yesterday in Abuja at ...
The Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji, has pointed out that the revenue required to drive efficient electricity industry be it generation, distribution or transmission came presently from consumers through the distribution companies, saying that...
Amid conflicts and attacks by land speculators on its construction workers building the multi –million naira mega filling station,the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) Plc , a major downstream sector operator in oil and gas industry,...
National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Lai Mohammed in this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, takes a critical appraisal of the state of the nation. To him, the ACN’s decision to oppose the suspension of Justice...
In August, the National Judicial Council (NJC) set up three committees to wade into the arrested judgement in the Sokoto Court of Appeal and the feud between the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the suspended Pre...
Resort Savings and Loans has recorded an impressive performance in its first quarter result as its profit rose to N81.39 million. The company result indicated that the profit went up by N8.86 million or 12.22 per cent when compared to N72.53 million ac...
A consortium of sixteen insurance companies and two brokers has signed over N40 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eagle Search Services of Nigeria, an indigenous outfit to combat the prevailing high level of poverty in the nation. The sche...