Governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) have accused the federal government of illegal deductions from the Federation Account of funds used in offsetting oil subsidy payments and resolved to head for the Supreme Court to ...
Thousands of well-wishers yesterday trooped to the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) to receive the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, who returned to the country after a medical trip to London. Rumour of the emir’s death while in Lond...
This is coming just as president Goodluck Jonathan held a crucial meeting with heads of the other two arms of government, including the Senate President, David Mark; Speaker of the House, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice ...
Senator Dantong Gyang representing Plateau North and Hon Gyang Fulani, the majority leader in the Plateau State House of Assembly have been killed. Sen. Gyang who was also chairman, Senate committee on health and the Plateau house leader were killed on...
The level of corruption in the management of funds meant for fuel subsidy could leave the country broke earlier than expected, analysts have warned. They were worried that with the level of corruption, the fuel subsidy was poised to swallow the e...
The Senate yesterday uncovered a discrepancy of N44bn between the records of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Ministry of Finance over the Natural Resource Development Account. It also uncovered how the presidency abused the account mean...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday removed Engr. Austen Oniwon as the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and ordered the re-composition of the corporation’s executive management team. The president ha...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has witnessed change of its Group Managing Directors (GMD’s) six times since 1999 to date. Andrew Yakubu, who becomes the corporation’s sixth GMD since Nigeria’s return to democracy i...
Stakeholders in the Nigerian education sector have expressed displeasure with the decision of the National Universities Commission (NUC) to suspend part-time programmes in Nigerian universities. The angst is even more heightened as an estimated 10 mill...
Like a tropical Venice, the town of Abonnema is packed on an island in the Niger delta – a deep river to one side, meandering creeks to another and the pounding Atlantic 40km to the south. In the early days of British colonial rule, it was Nigeri...
Some policemen and gunmen yesterday engaged in a shootout while heavy explosions occured at Gwauron Dutse police station in Dala Local government Area of Kano State. Also heavy explosions and gunshots were heard around Yalwa along Kofar Waika road on A...
Escalating violence that has claimed many lives and property in parts of the north yesterday forced President Goodluck Jonathan to kick out the national security adviser, General Andrew Azazi, and the minister of defence, Alhaji Haliru Mohammed Bello. ...
A bomb-laden car yesterday exploded opposite a popular night club, Kryxtal Lounge in Wuse 2, Abuja. Although details of the blast were still sketchy as at press time, LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that at about 11pm yesterday, a car parked be...
Indications emerged yesterday that, with the listing of three Boko Haram kingpins as ‘‘global terrorists’’, the United States can deploy its drones to take out the suspected terrorists if there is any threat to American interest...
Once more, the peaceful nature of Kaduna State had again been threatened following violent protests after two churches in Kaduna and another in Zaria were bombed last Sunday, throwing the whole state into turmoil and confusion. Almost every nook and cr...