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Following the outcome of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, last Saturday’ national convention which threw up Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the party’s national chairman, notable politicians from within and outside the party have con...
The Senate, as part of its resolve to monitor the public transport regulations, has invited Transport Minister, Senator Idris Umar, Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru and the Chairman of the Federal Road S...
President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, yesterday, arrived Incheon Airport, South Korea in the company of Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Taraba State counterpart, Danbaba Suntai for the Nuclear Security Summit in...
The post election legal tussle has taken another dimension in Kogi State as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) stormed the tribunal with video clips by witnesses. The governorship candidate of ACN, Prince Abubakar Audu, said that the move was aimed a...
The abundant investment opportunities in Nigeria as well as the statistics to back the fact that Nigeria remains an investors haven and gateway to Africa was the fulcrum of presentations and discussions by the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria ...
The Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to intervene in the lingering high interest rate in Nigeria’s financial sector, in order to boost manufacturing in the country. Chairman of MAN in Rive...
Chief Audu Ogbeh, one time presidential adviser on Agriculture and former Minister of Communications was among a high powered team that followed Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State to Egypt and Thailand during which agreements were reached on agro-...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Sokoto State, has deployed personnel to all the border areas in the state to stop the smuggling of arms into the country. The Commandant, Alhaji Aminu Kofor-Soro told the News Agency of Nigeria (N...
Governor of Anambra State and Chairman of South-East Governors’ Forum, Mr Peter Obi, at the weekend, disagreed with the Federal Government over its plan to complete the permanent site of Enugu International Trade Fair through Public Private Secto...
Acoustic shock is a phrase that has been around for about a decade. This condition, which affects most people who work in call centres leaving them with a permanent impairment, has become more common with the increase in telephone traffic and the growi...
Former head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has described the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governor of Lagos State, A...
Obvious cracks in the walls of the Boko Haram sect led to the arrest of one of the leaders of a faction of the group, Abu Mohammed, and his eventual death from gunshot injuries, LEADERSHIP can authoritatively reveal. Sources close to the security agenc...
The mother of late deputy inspector-general of police Haruna John, Madam Silani John, was yesterday confirmed dead after suffering a heart attack following the sudden death of her son in a helicopter crash. Madam Haruna was confirmed dead at a Jalingo ...
A chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, has declared that unless the north gets its act together and confront the problems of division among its leaders, the 2015 presiden...
Plans by the federal government to add an additional 10,000MW of electricity to the national grid by 2014 through the implementation of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) might be fruitless if nothing is done now to aggressively tackle gas ...