The federal government and the Senate yesterday moved to block plans to increase the funding of the Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) by 30 percent. Senator Awaisu Kuta (PDP, Niger) who sponsored the original bill h...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said Nigeria is ready to cooperate with Germany to strengthen its financial system. CBN’s Head, Corporate Communication, Mr. Mohammed Abdullahi in a statement said tha...
Eleven suspects were yesterday arrested by the Sokoto State Police Command for allegedly vandalising cables and other facilities belonging to NITEL Plc. in Sokoto and its environs. The facilities, LEADERSHIP learnt, were worth several millions of Naira...
A group of suspected members of the gay community in New York on Monday protested against the recently passed bill that prohibited same-sex marriage in Nigeria. The placard-carrying protesters, numbering some 15, made up of blacks and whites, claimed t...
The House Committee Chairman on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Honourable Adams Jagaba, on Tuesday, advanced strong reasons for an enhanced funding of the activities and operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ja...
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega on Monday in Abuja swore in eight new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). They are Mr. Gabriel Ada, Prof. Istifanus Dafirang and Messrs Samuel Usma and Law Azubike. Others are Sylvester Ezani, Minkaila Abdullahi,...
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Osita Chidoka, has refuted insinuations that the new driver’s licence and number plate project was intended to generate revenue. This was just as the chairman of the House of Rep...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday vowed not to go back to the classroom until its demands were fully met by the federal government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) also reported from Lagos that ASUU began a nationwide indefinit...
Kidnappers who stormed Opuoma Community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State penultimate week were said to have abducted a hunchback, Miss Stella Egbo and butchered her body for a suspected ritual purpose. An eye witness account tol...
It was a bloody day in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, yesterday, when gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, killed a policeman and four others at two different locations in the city. LEADERSHIP gathered that the hoodlums, who also wounded a ...
The Supreme Court yesterday fixed Thursday to commence hearing in an appeal lodged by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) against the November 1 judgment of the Presidentials Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the ...
The reconstituted Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, has again adjourned its sitting till Thursday for final ruling on the petition by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Prof. Steven Ugbah, against Governor Gabriel Suswam o...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised government at all levels to take agriculture more seriously as it could be a money spinner for the nation if properly harnessed. Obasanjo said this yesterday at the South west zonal conference of the Zonal...
With just 25 days left for the 2011 fiscal year to terminate, the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has given the FCT administration N940m for capital projects. The virement proposal, which the committee approved dur...
Nigeria women club basketball champions, First Deepwater will today face FIBA Africa defending champions, Interclube of Angola in the 17th edition of the Champions Club for women. This is after the Nigerian team got off to a fine start in the final rou...