In a rather consistent trend, the 2009-2011 report of the oil and gas sector audit conducted by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has again revealed that the federation lost about N2.153 trillion to unwholesome activitie...
The federal government will today arraign the former chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan, and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, before an Abuja High Court for allegedly receivi...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has appointed LEADERSHIP senior judiciary correspondent, Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, as her Media aide and Publicity Strategist to the Judiciary. In a press statement signed by the Supreme Court...
The federal government has finally given in to the Supreme Court judgement ordering the transfer of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot-Abasi to BFI Group Corporation. To this effect, the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) has offered a...
Ezenwa Nwagwu, is the Chairman of Partners for Electoral Reform (PER) . In this interview, with Chibuzo Ukaibe, he speaks on the planned merger of the opposition parties and highlights the need for fresh values and personalities as panacea to its succe...
152 out of the 400 teachers sacked last year by the Bayelsa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) over alleged irregularities in their employment were, yesterday, re-employed after due application, interview and proper employment letters. The 4...
Delta state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has expressed concern over the increasing rate at which teachers in the state are being kidnapped. They also warned that if the trend continued, they might be forced to shut down the schools for t...
Nollywood Star Tonto Dikeh premiered her long awaited single “Itz Ova” Video - featuring Synpa. The Video was produced by Gbemi Philips and directed by Moses Inwang of Sneeze Films, wardrobe by Bolaji Animashaun and director of photography, Dan McCain.
The fertilizer plant, Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL) , will serve markets in Benin, Brazil, Ghana, India, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rebuffed insinuations of crisis between President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the party, and insisted that members of the National Working Committee (NWC) remained solidly behind the party’s natio...
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) may join the list of proscribed political parties in the country if it fails to satisfactorily explain to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), why it is flouting the 1999 Constitution. LEADERSHIP ga...
At least three students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja were killed by a suspected drunken driver said to be a lecturer in the school. The lecturer was said to have knocked down one miss Taiwo Edilola Omolola, an HND1 student as she...
A new twist emerged, yesterday, following the story of a man caught with five human skulls in his house in Mangu, Plateau State as Meyitti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Plateau State Chapter, identified him as one of their memb...
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Benue state has arrested the resident pastor of the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners Chapel, Pastor Collins Obuh, in Katsina-Ala town of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area for illegal possession of...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State has chided state governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema for allegedly trying to muzzle dissenting views in the state, accusing him of being allergic to critical views on how the state is being governed. ...