Tambuwal, Ihedioha, Others Mourn Former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd) has described the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu as a great Nigerian who fought for the betterment of the society. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP ...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido, has said that the federal government spent $8 billion on the importation of petroleum products in 2011 alone through oil marketers. Sanusi added that&nbs...
Serving and retired jurists, at the end of the All Nigeria Judges’ Conference have praised the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, for what they described as his auspicious leadership in piloting the affairs of t...
Five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government chairmen in Bayelsa State chapter have accused Governor Timipre Sylva of sponsoring non- PDP members to Abuja to protest his disqualification from the November 19 PDP governorship primary elect...
Akanimo Sampson in Port Harcourt writes on Rivers State Government’s plan to demolish waterfronts in Port Harcourt and the attendant political controversy. The contentious waterfronts in Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, will soon ...
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is the governor of Edo State. In this interview with News Agency of Nigeria, he discusses his administration’s huge intervention in the area of infrastructure, job creation and his mission to transform the economy of his ...
China is set return Nigeria into space with the re-launch of a replacement satellite for Nigeria communication satellite on December 20, 2011 after three years absence due to a heat flare which destroyed Nigeria’s first communication satellite. N...
The global communities score pass marks on efforts to reduce the transmission of HIV infections, but not without some challenges. WINIFRED OGBEBO reports. The latest report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), released last...
Nigeria’s naira headed for a weekly retreat, after the central bank lowered its target range. The currency of Africa’s biggest oil producer rose less than 0.1 per cent to 159.375 per dollar, as of 2:55 p.m. on the interbank market in Lagos,...
So far this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has supplied over $27.34 billion (N4.24 trillion) at the official window to meet increasing demand for foreign exchange. This figure does not include foreign exchange inflow from autonomous sources su...
Sequel to the ongoing reforms in the nation’s capital market, some market operators have agreed that the expected gains from the reforms would be much visible in 2012, just as it would lead to the growth and development of the market. They said t...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has commenced collection of inputs from experts for inputs to the 2012 seasonal rainfall prediction (SRP). Speaking at a one-day stakeholders meeting on evaluation of 2011 SRP recently in Abuja, the Director &...
The federal government as part of its efforts to bridge the nation’s housing deficit has provided a low income housing estate in Kuje, Abuja under a Public Private Partnership (PPP)arrangement. The 300 housing estate is geared towards decongestin...
Churches, homes and the police headquarters in Geidam, Yobe State were set ablaze in a wave of night time gun and bomb attacks by Boko Haram sect, the police said on Sunday. "The Geidam divisional police headquarters and First Bank were bombed on ...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Mallam Lamido Sanusi says the government has sold a whooping sum of $8 billion to oil marketers for the importation of petroleum product in 2011 alone adding that the economic implicatio...