Senate President David Mark yesterday lamented the sorry state of the nation’s education sector, blaming it on the inability of successive governments to give it the attention it deserved. Senator Mark stated this while speaking at the 19th...
Two Bills pending before the House of Representatives, if passed into law, would duplicate functions of the National Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC and the Vehicle Inspection Office, VIO. The Bill...
The senate yesterday resolved to investigate the operations of the fuel subsidy scheme even as senators were sharply divided over whether the controversial fuel subsidy should remain or not. After a heated debate on the subsidy scheme, the senate manda...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, arraigned former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, and two other persons; Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola and Mr. Olufemi Ademola Babalola, a private businessman before Justice Mos...
Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole may have stirred the hornet’s nest with his alleged purchase of his official residence for N45m and his reported deal to rent it to his successor, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, for N40m. T...
Reforms in the Nigerian maritime sector have been kick-started. The minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday reduced agencies at the nation’s seaports to six, cutting off eight from having any permanent presence at the ports. This ...
Former governors on the corruption list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would, on conviction, be clamped in jail and would not be granted the reprieve of plea bargaining, the commission has declared. The commission has, mea...
Governors of the South-south geo-political zone have concluded plans to hold a summit on the declining quality of education in the zone. The governors revealed their intention on Saturday in Yenagoa, in a communiqué availed newsmen by the ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is still digging for more facts to nail the House of Representatives over alleged official graft in its purchase of 380 “operational vehicles” in 2008 at N2.3billion. EFCC spokesman Femi B...
Across the country, the biggest problem confronting most Nigerians is hunger. Incidentally, the ability of a country to put food on the tables of its populace, determines that country’s poverty level. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY investigations revealed tha...
Accused “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is defending himself against terrorism charges, will not make his own opening statement on Tuesday. Rather, the accused has engaged his legal adviser, Detroit lawyer Anthony Chambers...
There were strong indications yesterday that Vice President Namadi Sambo is preparing to run for the president in 2015. At the North-West executive committee meeting of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna yesterday, hundreds of yo...
Armed men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday killed three people and injured many others at a market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The commissioner of police, Borno State Command, Mr. Simeon Midenda, confirmed the killing...
In a bid to alleviate poverty and address social challenges in Taraba State, the TY Danjuma Foundation has launched the Taraba Community Fund in Jalingo, the state capital. The foundation has also given out 10 grants to community-based organisations th...
A loud explosion from the truck line of the Obama Flow Station of the Agip Oil Company, on Sunday night, threw the quiet community of Okoroma-Tereke in Nembe local government area of Bayelsa State into commotion. The explosion and the attendant fire ou...