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As part of the activities marking Nigeria’s 52nd Independence Anniversary, President Goodluck Jonathan is to address the nation on Monday. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati stated that the...
Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi has advised the people of the state to be at alert as the flood will continue for a long time. Wada gave the advice in Lokoja on Sunday while receiving relief materials donated to the state by Partners for Development and Baby H...
Senate President David Mark says in spite of the economic and socio-political challenges facing the nation, the resolve and willingness of Nigerians to confront the issues headlong will suffice. Mark, who stated this in his goodwill message to Nigerian...
The Cross River Government has taken an inventory of victims of the flood disaster in Boki Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that several communities in the area were ravaged by flood and mudslide from Afi Mou...
Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, the Minister of National Planning, says integration of infrastructure master plan is critical to Nigeria’s bid to be among the top 20 economies by 2020. The minister said this in Abuja on Saturday at the presidential d...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commended the National Assembly for its zeal to strengthen the country’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws. EFCC’s Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Akomaye, gave the commendation wh...
Chief Okon Akpanowong, a community leader in Ibeno in Akwa Ibom, has criticised the suspension of the clean-up of Atlantic coastline contaminated by an oil spill on Aug.13. The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) had ordered Mobi...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked claims that the omission of the word ``fraud’’ in Nigeria’s 2011 Anti-money Laundering Act was deliberate. The commission’s secretary Emmanuel Akomaye, told the Ne...
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s Hajj. The flights were suspended on Thursday following the wave of deportation of female pilgrims by the Saudi au...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked claims that it has not made meaningful progress, stressing that the courts have the final say in convictions in cases of corruption. EFCC’s Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Akomaye, made the...
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) on Sunday arrested 27 traders for hawking outside the Wuse market premises in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Alhaji Isa Shuaibu, the Director of the Board, said during the operation, that hawking as...
The National Publicity Secretary, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Bernard Akoma, on Friday called on the Federal Government to evolve a comprehensive cultural policy to foster development. Akoma, who made the call in an interview wi...
Gombe State receives one of the least allocations in the federation, but the infrastructure put in place by the state government has made it one of the fastest developing states in the country, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly has said....
About 102 intending pilgrims from sokoto state were deported from kingdom of Saudi yesterday. The Chairman of the Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency, (SSPWA) disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP in Sokoto. It will be recalled that ove...
Mixed reactions from across the states trail the plight of the Nigerian female Muslim pilgrims who were denied entry into Saudi Arabia by its authorities because they were not accompanied by their male guardians. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria...