The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the opinion of the few respondents on its data portal cannot be equated to the position of all Nigerians on the issue of the planned introduction of N5,000 notes. The NBS also said it was incorrect ...
The value of the naira continued to run southward as it fell against the United States dollar at the interbank market yesterday, on strong dollar demand. Demand had outpaced thin supply from an oil company and some offshore investors in local debt, wit...
Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange closed in the green zone to what some market watchers attributed to investors’ renewed confidence in the local bourse following expectations that the appointed market makers billed to commence operation...
A consultant clinical microbiologist/parasitologist, National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Kenneth Iregbu, has disclosed that over 95 per cent of the country’s laboratory reports were unreliable. He said in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Abuja ...
Despite the depressive performances of major economies occasioned by debt and other fiscal problems in European, Asian and American economies in the past months, Nigeria’s economy when measured by real gross domestic product grew by 6.28 per cent...
The Legal Aid Council (LAC) has organised a one-day Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) workshop for relevant stakeholders in Kaduna State. Participants at the workshop include Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), traditional rulers, welfare officer...
Efforts by the Federal government and security agencies to clamp down on oil thieves yielded result at the weekend in Aba, Abia State, when the Anti Vandal squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arre...
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has nominated Mr Chris Giwa as its candidate for the Plateau North Senatorial by-election scheduled for Oct. 6, a party official has said. Dr Isa Jega, the Plateau APGA Chairman, disclosed this in Jos on Saturd...
Federal Government's amnesty programme is not an issue confined to the Niger-Delta but it is rather a Nigeria project, Senate Deputy Leader Abdul Ningi has said. He told the Southern Africa correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Johan...
It was naira rain for the Team Nigeria at the recently concluded London Paralympics games and members of the U-20 female national team, the Falconets, as the federal government in appreciation of their efforts rewarded them with cash rewards. Each of t...
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Osita Chidoka, said yesterday that 54 persons died in motor accidents in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states between July and August, this year. The corps marshal made the fact known in S...
The refusal of a commercial bus driver to part with N20 bribe caused him his life as a police patrol team attached to Sapade area on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway shot and killed him instantly. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the patrol team had flagged ...
The Lagos State Government has said it is set to commence the airlift of the state Muslim pilgrims of this year’s Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia, from October 1, 2012. The Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture, Alhaji Oyinl...
An 80-year-old victim of flood that sacked five villages in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State, Malam Garba Tanka, has decried his condition at the Katarkawa resettlement centre, saying, “I’m dying gradually in the camp”. Tank...
The Chairman of the Council of Ulamas of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bid’ah Wa’ikamatus Sunnah JIBWIS Sheik Sani Yahaya Jingir has advised all Muslims in Nigeria not to violently protest the video against Islam that led to violence in...