The Taskforce on Trade Facilitation led by its chairman, Mr. David Adejuwon, has urged the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to improve its services to passengers especially in w providing sufficient trolleys at theThe Taskforce on Trad...
AIICO Insurance plc has paid claims totaling N2.44 billion within the first eight months of 2011 as against N1.4 billion claims paid during the same period in 2010. The company’s managing director, Mr. David Sobanjo, said the payment was in ...
Following the increasing cases of building collapse across the country some insurance stakeholders have decried the poor showings of insurance companies citing the delay to enforce compulsory building insurances by the regulator as one of the reasons f...
Royal Exchange Plc has recorded a 25 per cent growth in gross earnings during the half year ended June 2011. In a corporate action by the Insurance Company to the Nigeria’s Exchange and obtained by Leadership, the company’s unaudited ...
Stakeholders in the housing sector have raised the alert over the environmental disasters occasioned by the effect of climate change in the country, warning that the global trend was beginning to attain worrisome dimension in the nation. Speakers at th...
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Amal Pepple, has urged private investors to ensure that good, affordable and high quality houses should be provided for the citizens. She gave the charge in Abuja at the “Ground Breaking event”...
The federal government has concluded arrangements to begin collection of data on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) of the 36 States of the federation.The total budget for States’ GDP computation in selected States – Kano, Cross River, Lagos, Go...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has remitted N360 million to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) as value added and withholding taxes collected on behalf of the Service between 2006 and 2010. The Chairman, Dr Sam Amadi discl...
Reeling from huge non-performing loans, Access Bank’s third quarter result still showed a rise in profitability as profit after tax grew by 34 per cent from N9.6 billion to N12.8 billion in the third quarter ended September 30. The figure i...
The dream of providing an effective mass transport scheme for residents of Abuja and its environs has run into trouble.Investigations by LEADERSHIP showed that out of the 192 Marcopolo brand of Mercedes Benz buses procured for the scheme by the Abuja U...
A coalition of youth groups in the north, the Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), yesterday alleged that some powerful northerners were the masterminds of a plot to cause disaffection between President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. AYF nation...
Nigeria and the United States yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would enable independent power producers in the country to access up to $1.5 billion facility to purchase equipment and services from the United States. The facilit...
President Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved all federal government boards and parastatals. To this effect, he has inaugurated the Committee on the Composition of the Boards of Federal Government Parastatals chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo. Jonatha...
In a bid to address the rising wave of kidnapping and hostage-taking across the country, members of the House of Representatives have taken steps to prescribe death by hanging as a penalty for the crime in Nigeria. The lawmakers took this decision duri...
Yoruba movie actor, Babatunde Omidina aka `Baba Suwe' is planning to file a N1 billion suit against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his recent arrest and detention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that `Baba Su...