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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the commencement of a new posting policy that will ensure that serving corps members are posted to identified key sectors of the economy in order to make the scheme more responsive to current realit...
The candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Saturday bye-election into Mashi State constituency of Katsina State, Nazifi Yusuf Bello, has been declared winner of the election. However, the senator representing Ka...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described former president Shehu Shagari as an elder statesman who has never relented in making his wisdom and vast experience available to the country. Jonathan, who made this comment while congratulating Shagari ...
Kontagora Emirate Youth Development Association (KEYODA) in Niger State has written a petition to the Minister of Education, Prof. Rakkayatu Rufai, to investigate the allegation of fraud concerning over N1.1billion grants to the Federal College of Educ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dissociated itself from any involvement in the plea bargain deal between ex- Delta State Governor James Ibori and the Metropolitan Police of London. Ibori is facing money laundering charge i...
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has stressed the need for good working relationship between civil servants and the state government. Captain Wada stated this in Lokoja weekend while receiving in his office, executive members of the Nigeria Labo...
Governor Umaru Al-makura of Nasarawa state, is yet to purchase official vehicles to run the affairs of government in the state. Al-makura, of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), wrested power from the former governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma, of t...
This is one of the most controversial topics on planet earth. It is a debate that has raged from probably since record keeping began. The whole world is divided into two over this never-ending argument. In the blue corner (subtle and cool) are the fema...
A survivor of yesterday’s suicide bombing in the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) headquarters, Jos, Mr Appolos Damburam, has revealed how two suicide bombers dressed in army uniform carried out their deadly mission in an exo...
The chief executive officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, has refused to be drawn into commenting on the issue of alleged fraud rocking Mainstreet Bank. Chike-Obi finally responded to LEADERSHIP’s...
The Bauchi state police command on Sunday, apprehended seven persons over alleged attempt to bomb ‘COCIN’ Church at ‘Miya Barkatai’ in Toro local government area of the State. The State Commissioner of Police Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba...
Nelson Mandela was discharged on Sunday from an overnight hospital stay after a diagnostic probe showed nothing “seriously wrong” with the anti-apartheid icon, South Africa’s presidency said. “Former President Nelson Mandela has...
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), recently came under criticisms from anxious riverine stakeholders over the handling of its mandate to dredge and construct ports along the River Niger. Correspondents NUHA YARWA and PEMBI STEPHEN &n...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has announced the setting up of an 11-man Financial Management Committee led by the Former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr.Timi Alaibe. The committee is expected to offer ad...
Prof. George Akpede, the Chief Medical Director of Irrua Specialist Hospital in Edo, says that Lassa fever has claimed 22 lives in the hospital since last year. Akpede, who made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...