Poverty, a state of being poor, has been identified as one of the factors that lead to the inherent challenges of social equality in a country like Nigeria richly endowed with natural and mineral resources. Patience Ivie Obhafuoso writes Mo...
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State has dismissed a petition by Hon. Atai Aidoko, challenging the election of Senator Emmanuel Dangana as lawmaker representing the eastern flank of the state.Delivering judgment yesterday,t he ...
A Federal High Court in Jos yesterday discharged and acquitted six suspects accused of participating in the January 20 crisis in the Plateau State capital.The suspects are Alhassan Mohammed, Abubakar Samaila, Abubakar Shuaibu, Buhari Dahiru, Ibrahim Mu...
In Nigeria, the security situation in recent time has become precarious, posing serious challenges to the survival of the nation’s nascent democracy. CHRISTIANA ESEBONU writes that the recent arming of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps...
The federal government yesterday shunned state governors and went on to launch the controversial Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) with a series of initial steps designed to build a strong foundation for achieving the objectives of the fund as encapsulated i...
Jakartapost, the website that published story about Nigeria’s plan to build three refineries in Indonesia, last week Thursday, said it goofed, LEADERSHIP can exclusively report. A senior editor with Jakartapost, Andi Haswidi, told LEADERSHI...
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Federal Character to investigate alleged lopsidedness in the award of contracts for federal government projects across the country. The decision was reached after the House adopted the resoluti...
The Federal High Court in Gombe State yesterday granted bail to former Gombe State Governor Danjuma Goje and four others that are standing trial for alleged involvement in financial crimes and corrupt enrichment.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commis...
The Niger Delta Military Joint Task Force (JTF), code named ‘Operation Restore Hope’ has announced the arrest of over 50 persons in the three operational zones of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states over alleged cases of oil bunkering an...
TV presenter Giuliana Rancic has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The E! News and Style Network host, 37, discovered she had a tumour while undergoing in-vitro fertilisation in a bid to get pregnant. However, doctors are optimistic they have d...
The impact of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s intervention is still reverberating as the naira appreciated at the bi-weekly auction yesterday to close at N149.95 to the dollar, from N150 at the previous auction. The CBN met demand, selling $296.91 ...
Trading activities on the Nigerian stock market yesterday continued on a positive note after last Friday’s equity rise in prices of stocks, even as major blue chip stocks recorded price appreciation, causing the All-share index to rise by 1.00 pe...
The Federal Government has engaged Chinese experts to teach their Nigerian counterparts how to produce more food across the nation. Speaking during this year’s Agricultural Show which took place along Keffi road, Nasarawa State, the Coordinator, ...
As a way of ensuring that subscribers get glued to its network, Airtel yesterday announced that it would offer its BlackBerry customers a service waiver following last week’s global outage attributed to the service provider, Research in Motion (R...
About 1,500 clerics from over 20 countries will next week converge in Benin City, Edo State capital to address spiritually the worrisome issues relating to terrorism, kidnapping, assassinations, armed robberies and other violent crimes ravaging some pa...