Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, is at a loss on how to discharge its constitutional role of developing the rural communities within its jurisdiction due to dearth of revenue accruing to it. Against popular expectations that the area council is buoy...
Uneasy calm now pervades the University of Abuja, as officials of the National Universities Commission(NUC),on the presidential directives, commenced the verification of certificates of both students and lecturers wi...
The management of Air Nigeria yesterday confirmed that its domestic and regional flights were disrupted. This followed a strike action embarked by a section of its aircraft pilots and engineers under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Aircraft Pi...
Imo State chairman of the National Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE), Chief K.I Onuoha, has faulted the style of leadership adopted by the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Onuoha stated that the governor’s style of leadership was ...
A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Samuel Olufemi James, who took part in a sham marriage, has been jailed for 22 months. The judgement took place at Derby Crown Court. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that James, who lived on Riddings Street, Derby, was arre...
As Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima marks his first year in office amidst security challenges, the governor opens up on why the state cannot be described as a failed state. He also speaks about Nigerian leaders’ obligation to provide honest a...
Gabriel Suswam, the Governor of Benue State, laments on how the North as a region is losing out in its economic activities due to the security challenges across the country. In this interview with ISAIAH BENJAMIN, he reiterates the commitment of the Go...
In what federal lawmakers described as a “national embarrassment”, the House of Representatives yesterday launched an inquest into the role played by the federal government and two multinational oil giants (Agip and Shell) in the alleged ro...
No less than five persons were roasted to death in the early hours of yesterday after a multiple accident that occurred at Ibafo, a few kilometers to the Redeemed Camp when a trailer loaded with PMS, popularly called petrol, rammed into some trucks par...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has given a strong indication that the state government and the federal government alongside other investors will construct another hydroelectric dam in the Gurara Local Government Area of the...
A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has ordered the authorities of the Central Navy Command of the Nigerian Navy to hand over two oil vessels seized along the waters of Bayelsa State for alleged involvement in the illegal lifting of crude...
Following media reports that he canvassed votes for incumbent Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor, has refuted some of the comments ascribed to him, just as he maintained that the performance of Osh...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denied the PDP’s accusation that the party was behind the protests by the students of University of Lagos (UNILAG) against the federal government’s decision to change the institution’s name to ...
A report by international audit firm, KPMG yesterday revealed that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) inefficiency in dealing with demurrage, cost the country of 65million dollars between 2007 and December2010. The audit firm whose ...
The Chairman Niger State Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN ),Captain Abubakar Isah Mokwa has said that the planned merger between the party and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), was the only way the needed change within the nation’s pol...