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The Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) yesterday fined Delta and Kano states N50,000 each for using ineligible weightlifters at the going 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos. NWF Secretary Uche Onwumeh said that a female weightlifter, Bilikis Ot...
The Ondo State Sports Council has queried the coach of its female hockey team and the secretary of the state Hockey Association over the team’s disqualification at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Lagos. Bamido Omogbehin, Chairman of the s...
The House Representative Committee on Sports has expressed concern over the inadequate sports funding in the country by the government as reflected in the yearly budgetary provision of the National Sports Commission (NSC). The committee made the ...
The Ambassador of Switzerland to Nigeria, Dr. Hans-Rudolf Hodel has disclosed that a total of $700 million deposited in Swiss banks by the late former military President, General Sani Abacha have so far been returned to the Nigerian government even as ...
The Yobe State government has refuted rumours making the round that government official, including commissioners and legislators have fled the state for fear of insecurity. In a statement signed and made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday by the Special...
Following stringent measures put in place in the management of fuel importation to check corruption in the payment of fuel subsidy claims, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has said that the federal government has between January...
The federal government, under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), has established a network of one-stop-shop agro-input centres to ensure the availability, accessibility and affordability of agricultural inputs, as well as serve as singular a...
The Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Umaru Ibrahim, has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank would be using the existence and capacity of deposit insurance as a...
Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has presented an appropriation bill of N137, 342, 108, 137 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval as the 2013 budget. Making the presentation yesterday, the governor explained that the sum was for both capi...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned judgement indefinitely in the suit filed by a faction of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State challenging the withdrawal of their certificates of return by the Independent ...
The Governor of Niger State,Dr. Muazu Babngida Aliyu has said that the state government would use agro products to accelerate the economic development of the state. Aliyu represented yesterday by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed Musa Ibeto at the Nationa...
The Will of Ikemba Nnewi and Ezeigbo Gburu-gburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu which was read weekend before members of his family at the probate registry of the Enugu state High Court has been described as sacrosanct. This assertion was made in a p...
Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, has observed that 70 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons have no business there because they are awaiting trial. He made this observation in Sokoto, yesterday, at a sensitisa...
Stakeholders in the rice milling and distribution chain in Nigeria have raised an alarm over what they described as increasing wave of smuggling of the commodity into the country, worth as much as N1.7billion monthly. The stakeholders, who spoke under ...
Sunshine Stars of Akure head coach, Samuel Abimbola has expressed optimism that the team would surely pick a ticket to play in the continent at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League season kickoff soon. Speaking ahead of the preseason t...