The INEC accredited Coalition of Domestic Election Observers, has adjudged the Kebbi governorship re- run election, held last Saturday, as among the best in the country. The group's position was contained in a communique jointly signed by its...
Many people were feared dead with several others seriously injured when a petrol tanker caught fire on Sunday evening at Ganigaku village in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa. An eyewitness, who identifies himself simply as Baba, told newsme...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said it killed two suspected members of Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri on Sunday during a shoot-out. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Sunday that the incident happened ar...
Segun Arinze, the chairman, Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) says they need fund to move the Nigeria movie industry to the next level because every sector needs fund to make meaningful impact. In an interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, he said, every sector ...
Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari was yesterday declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship rerun election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer, Professor Lawal Sulaiman Bilbis, ...
A financial audit carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has passed a damaging verdict on registered political parties: they lack transparency, prudency and proper accounting records in their transactions.. In the audit rep...
The Chairman, House Committee on Steel Development, Hon. Sadiq Asema Mohammed, in this interview with Ruth Tene, gives an expose on the potential of the steel sector and the need to complete Ajaokuta Steel Mill. You say the government is ignoring the s...
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Training Development Fund (PTDF), Engr. Muttagha Rabe Darm, will appear before the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) to clarify reas...
Despite the many controversies that surrounded the introduction of Islamic banking in Nigeria, it has come to stay and will address various financing deficits that have hindered the growth and development of small and medium-scale enterprises in the co...
The Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has expressed optimism that the polio virus would be totally intercepted and eradicated in Nigeria by the end of the year. This is even as he urged other northern States, governments to work ...
Residents of Niger State living near offices of security agencies and top government officers are beginning to groan and count their losses due to harassments and road blocks. LEADERSHIP findings revealed that security agencies blocked sections o...
The branch controller of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Kaduna, Alhaji Mohammed Gusau at the weekend said that Kaduna State was lagging behind in reaping the benefits of viable economic development programmes of the federal government, particular...
Months after Kaduna State was recorded as polio free, the dreaded disease has again resurfaced in Birnin Gwari local government area in the state, prompting residents to call on parents to assist government efforts toward eradicating the me...
Fifteen years after he left government as a Military Administrator of Kaduna State, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd), has finally opened up on why he sacked about 30,000 workers in 1997. LEADERSHIP recall that the Col. Ali, who assumed office on August 2...
Osun State chapter of the National Conscience Party(NCP) has urged the state government to make public actions to be taken on the report of the Contracts Review Committee it set up to probe some of the contracts alleged to have been fraudul...