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...
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has ordered the immediate release of letters of promotion to all categories of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) workers in Enugu Zone. A statement, signed by Mr Greyne Anos...
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has urged Nigerian female parliamentarians to sponsor bills that will address specific issues that concern women. Speaking at a dinner in honour of female parliamentarians on Tuesday in Abuja, she urged ...
MC Loph’s fiancée, Nkiru Orji has been discharged from Imperial Hospital having recovered partially from the injuries she sustained in the fatal auto crash that wasted the rap artiste, his only sister and cousin. According to sources, &ld...
Muscleman, turned movie star, turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the movies. He's on the New Mexico set of "The Last Stand," playing the starring roleas a small town border sheriff. The a...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed December 6 for further hearing in a suit by the suspended president, Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Isa Salami, and at the same time ruled that all the preliminary objections filed by all the respondents be...
Mother of the 25 year-year old student, Victor Emmanuel, shot dead on Sunday by a trigger-happy policeman in Bayelsa State, Mrs. Grace Victor, yesterday relieved the gory details of the tragedy.Pensively, she said that her son’s dream of particip...