President Goodluck Jonathan declared on Wednesday in New York that attracting greater foreign direct investment to accelerate domestic growth ``is now the major focus of Nigeria’s foreign policy’’. A statement by Senior Special Assist...
The Senate Committee on National Planning, Economic Affairs and Poverty Alleviation yesterday queried the performance of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) expressing worry that the agency has over N11bn in its coffers in the face...
Governor of Benue State, Dr. Gabriel Suswam has added a voice to the opposition against the establishment of state police in Nigeria, saying state governors will use it against the opposition. He also tied slow foreign and local investments in Nigeria ...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday constituted a high-powered investigation team from the FCID, Abuja, to immediately take over the investigation to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death on 20 September, 2012 o...
The lawmaker representing Buruku federal constituency of Benue State, Hon. Orker Jev has said that lawyers, as a defenders of the rule of law, have a major stake in ensuring that democracy not only survives but serves as a means to good gov...
The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2012 June/July Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) result with over 50 percent credit and above pass levels in basic subjects as against 22 percent average pass last year. The council...
The Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) has called on the Federal Government to adopt a multi-track diplomactic approach in handling the security challenges facing the country where the states, individuals, NGOs and religio...
Gombe State receives one of the least allocations in the federation, but the infrastructure put in place by the state government has made it one of the fastest developing states in the country, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly has said....
About 102 intending pilgrims from sokoto state were deported from kingdom of Saudi yesterday. The Chairman of the Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency, (SSPWA) disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP in Sokoto. It will be recalled that ove...
The trial of Papal butler, Mr Paolo Gabriele for breach of trust begins on Saturday' in the Vatican City, and the trial is expected to beam light on the tiny religious state headed by Pope Benedict XVI. Gabriele is also charged for stealing and lea...
High Courts in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which went on annual vacation eight weeks ago, have yet to commence formal sittings, a week after the end of the vacation. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who went round some courts...
Mixed reactions from across the states trail the plight of the Nigerian female Muslim pilgrims who were denied entry into Saudi Arabia by its authorities because they were not accompanied by their male guardians. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria...
he U.S. envoy to Islamabad on Thursday dismissed as ``despicable’’ a 100,000 dollars reward offered by Pakistan’s railway minister last week for the killing of the maker of an anti-Islam video. ``To ask for violence even against one p...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said on Thursday that it would capture 100 million Nigerians in the newlyintroduced biometrics database system in 30 months. Briefing newsmen, NIMC Director-General, Mr Chris Onyemenam, said the gestur...
Rep. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, has identified the absence of a policy framework on Diaspora as a big setback for Nigeria's economy. She made this known when the committee met with the Se...