A total of 39,066 candidates, representing 9.65 per cent of students who sat for November/December 2011 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) had their result withheld by the examination body for their alleged involvement...
The federal government has stated that it has not fixed any date for the removal of fuel subsidy and full deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry. Minister of information Mr. Labran Maku stated this yesterday in Abuja while briefing S...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. O.A. Ihejirika has described the dreaded Boko Haram sect as a religious movement that has no value for human life and thus vowed that the military is ready to contain them. The COAS made this assertion yesterday...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service yesterday arrested the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Federal Capital Development Authority, Engr Adamu Ismaila over N28.2billion unremitted taxes. Adamu was picked up in his office at about 12:03pm by an enforcement...
Fuel scarcity has returned to some of parts of Nasarawa State in the run-up to the Christmas celebrations, this Sunday. Our correspondent observed that by yesterday, only the NNPC mega station in Lafia, the state capital, was selling fuel at the offici...
A Lokoja High Court has held that the indefinite manning of affairs of council areas by directors of local government in Kogi State was unlawful. Delivering judgement on the suit filed by some chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the s...
The Governor of Niamey Region, Aishatu Kane Bulama has explained the reason for the recent award of Grand Officer of the National Order of Niger,GONON, second highest merit award in Niger Republic, to the Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema. Bu...
Traditional Rulers from seven Communities of the Yenagoa and Ogbia Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State yesterday rejected an order by the State’s Deputy Governor, Werinipre Seibarogu for the communities to sign a new Global Memorandum of Unde...
Wife of River State Governor Chibuike Amaechi narrowly escaped death yesterday from a police patrol team escorting expatriate oil workers. An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP Tuesday that the governor’s wife was heading to an official event when ...
There was a mild drama on Wednesday in Kaduna when some youth attacked men of the State Fire Service who came to put off the fire that engulfed an Oando Filling station located around Angwan Sariki bus stop in the state metropolis. LEADE...
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday in Lagos said the removal of oil subsidy would strengthen investors’ confidence in the capital market. She said this at a forum organised by the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) with...
The National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Chief Osita Okereke, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to make peace with aggrieved political parties to strengthen the nation's democracy. Okereke gave the advice in Abuja at ...
About six billion Naira is being spent on sugar importation in Nigeria to supplement the sugar needs of the country, the Benue State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Eugene Aliegba, has said. He stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi at the National Sugar D...
Hessington Okolo, a lawyer by training and President, National Association of Ndokwa Youth Congress, the umbrella youth organisation for Ndokwa people, the second largest ethnic group in Delta State, in this interview with JULIET ALOHAN, narrates the o...
The State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, has pleaded with the United Nations to pay greater attention to issues of Bakassi resettlement with a view to ameliorating the sufferings of displaced persons in the area. Imoke made the plea in Cala...