Managing Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, has disclosed that the corporation paid N3.303 billion out of the N5.241 billion insured deposits of 35 DMBs that were liquidated between 1994 and 2005. He said...
A Gbagyi monarch, Chief Samuel Yabusan, has decried the absence of land to build and farm in his domain. The lack of farmland follows federal government’s decision to make Abuja the seat of government. Speaking exclusively to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND a...
The Federal Government will create 3 to 5 million jobs by 2015, Mr Labaran Maku, Minister of Information and Communications, has said. The minister said this on Friday shortly after the foundation laying ceremony of the new Federal Secretariat complex ...
Dr Chioma Amajor, the Chairman of the National Malaria Control Programme, said on Friday that more than 200,000 Nigerians died of malaria annually. Amajorsaid at the commemoration of World Malaria Day in Rivers in Port Harcourt that the figure was worr...
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has asked the police command in the state to unmask the killers of Mr Oyerinde Olaitan his principal private secretary, who was allegedly murdered earlier in the day. The police are also expected to use the period to establ...
President Barack Obama of the US has invited four African leaders to join the G8 leaders' summit at Camp David later this month for a session on food security, the White House said. Those invited to participate are Benin's President Yayi Boni, ...
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) says it is too early to fault the media on the non-use of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. Mr Gbenga Onayiga, the NUJ National Vice President, Zone H, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday...
The House of Representatives committee on Land Transport has expressed satisfaction with the N2.4 billion rail rehabilitation project in the North Central part of the country. Dr Sokonte Davies, the Committee’s Chairman, who led other members on ...
Sen. Olusola Adeyeye on Friday called on the Federal Government to explore all possible means, including concession to the aggrieved in the interest of peace. Adeyeye, who made the call in an interview with newsmen in Osogbo, stressed the need for the ...
Stakeholders in the housing development on Thursday sought collaboration with the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in fighting the influx of substandard building materials to the markets The request was made during the ``Material Session Day&rsqu...
An Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Friday granted bail to John Okeke, a Pentecostal archbishop, who allegedly stole property of his church members valued at N7 million. Okeke, founder of God's Pentecostal Ministry World Wide, Iba in Lagos, is facing a...
Bishop Ephraim Ikeakor, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Amichi in Anambra, has charged the nation’s judiciary to join meaningfully in the fight against corruption for sustainable development. Ikeakor gave the charge on Friday in Onitsha, Anambr...
The Plateau Government Friday banned the operation of motorcycles in Jos and Bukuru metropolis, citing the security situation in the state capital as a reason for the action. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Abraham Yiljap, announced the ban at a n...
A report that a car laden with explosive devices had been abandoned at AP Plaza, Wuse II, Abuja, caused panic in the area on Friday. Workers in the building and those of a new generation bank located beside it were evacuated and the area cordoned off b...
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Friday apologised to Lagos residents over the hardship arising from the ongoing strike by doctors in the employ of the state. Addressing some Lagos residents who stormed his office in protest against t...