The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a project worth 80-million-dollars for Nigeria, says Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. Adesina disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja while ans...
President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated his administration’s commitment to addressing factors militating against the implementation of revolutionary programmes in the South-South region. Jonathan, represented by Vice President Namadi Sambo, ga...
Sen. Mohammed Ndume, an alleged financier of the Boko Haram sect, has said the State Security Service (SSS) drafted `frivolous’ terrorism charges against him. Ndume’s counsel, Mr Rickey Tarfa, therefore, told the Federal High Court in Abuja...
The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has advised the Federal Government to allow all states of the federation to be fiscally independent. The CITN Registrar, Mr Jayeoba Abayomi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursda...
College students held demonstrations in several U.S. cities on Wednesday to mark the day total U.S. student loan debt was expected to reach one trillion dollars. Some of the demonstrating students burnt loan documents and others demanded a right to ``d...
Inadequate sanitation impacts on everybody; from the greatest to the least. But, in spite of all these, a 5-day programme convened by the African Leadership Forum suggests sanitation coverage in Nigeria is extremely low. pembi stephen-david writes. In ...
As political tension mounts in Edo State ahead of the July 14 governorship election, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, challenged the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate, Major General Charles Airhiavbere(rtd) to explain...
Osun State, known for its peaceful atmosphere, has been engulfed in a battle of supremacy between the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). SEFIU AYANBIMPE analyses how the high wire politics in the state has taken...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has said that the party has yet to anoint any candidate for the 2015 presidential polls. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, remarked that t...
The spokesman for the Special Task Force on Jos crisis,Captain. Mdahlelya Markus said that the Tudun Wada explosive went off at about 9.45 pm as viewers were coming out of the centre after watching the ongoing European Champions League match between Ch...
A socio-cultural group in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, Akpakip Oro Youth Alliance has described the recent confirmation of the appointment of Mr. Joshua Okpo as the substantive Rector of Marit...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Zonal Youth Leader, Ado Wantos, has faulted the Farouk Lawan-led House of Representatives committee, which probed the oil subsidy regime, over the publication made in various newspapers which blamed the office of the ...
With less than one year into his four-year administration, friends and well wishers of Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of Kaduna State are already strategizing on how to return the governor in 2015 general elections. LEADERSHIP learnt that the friends ...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that Nigeria’s full development aspirations would be a mirage if the environment is not opened up and created for other countries to come in and do business. He said this...
Kogi State Government has expressed its readiness to assist the State university, Anyigba, through timely release of funds to ensure the early take off of its Faculty of Medicine. The State Governor, Capt Idris Wada, who made the pledge while assessing...