Nigeria spends trillions of naira in the importation of both foodstuff and technology. In this interview with NKECHI ISAAC, the acting director of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Engr. Mohammed Haruna, says that...
The new N5,000 note just approved by President Goodluck Jonathan will end the use of $100 notes now in vogue among looters, industrialist-businessman Atedo Peterside told journalists yesterday while supporting the introduction of the new currency...
Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako has been allegedly fingered in the arrest and detention of the Deputy Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Kwamoti Laori. The police on Monday arrested Hon. Laori over the Ngbalang crises in Numan Local ...
Palpable tension yesterday enveloped workers at the Head of Service unit, Asaba, Delta State following the discovery of a bomb left in a carton and wrapped in different colours of tread at the premises. The workers, many of whom wearing long face...
The Estu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar has been presented with the award of Icon of Peace and Unity by the National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) Joint Campus Committee of Niger State. The award according to the release issued by the associatio...
The Federal Government has for the second time, decided to mark the Independence Day Anniversary of the Country in a low key. This time, it is not because it is wary of bomb attacks by the Boko Haram sect, which has been waging a relentless...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal yesterday dismissed the petition of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC) challenging the 2012 Governorship rerun election in Kebbi State. Delivering the verdict, the tribunal judge, Justice Danlami Sambo ...
Activities at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, was yesterday paralysed as workers of the hospital embarked on strike following the implementation of the non skipping of CONTISS/CONHESS10 by the management of the hospital. Addressing newsmen at th...
The Bakassi Peoples Assembly (BPA), led by Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to urgently resolve the resettlement of the Bakassi people to Day Spring 1&2 and Kwa Islands. Addressing newsmen in Lagos, Ita-Giwa said &...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno saying it raided the residence of the key Boko Haram commander in Maiduguri on Monday recovering a lot of items. In a statement signed and made available to LEADERSHIP by the JTF Spokesman, Lt Col Sagir Musa, the for...
The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that a total of N25 billion had been paid to contractors handling the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) projects. The beneficiary contractors include, Dantata & Sawoe Contructio...
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Ltd (NELMCO) Dr Sam Agbogun, said that the company needed more than N330 billion to settle creditors of PHCN before a smooth and full privatisation could take place. Agbogun told the...
The newly appointed Managing Director of the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund Authority (NSWFA), Mr. Uche Orji, has said he would spend the fund on local infrastructure. Orji a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and UBS AG (UBSN) banker sai...
In a bid to check criminal activities in hotels in Nigeria, the Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) yesterday unveiled plans to create an electronic data base of all staff in Nigeria’s hotels as a way of tracking the work h...
The naira fell for a third day against the dollar on the Nigerian interbank market as import demand increased. The currency fell 0.2 per cent to N158.5 a dollar in Lagos. The naira has advanced 2.4 per cent this year, the best performer in Africa accor...