Governors of the 36 states of the federation yesterday reiterated that the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) must be reviewed, insisting that the development is now a condition for the payment of the N18,000 minimum wage. But the federal government has set u...
The outbreak of cholera, which occured in some parts of Ibadan weekend, has so far claimed over eight lives while some other victims are responding to treatment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and other private hospitals LEADERSHIP findings...
The recent flood cases in Katsina State affected over 1,000 households, destroying houses and personal properties on their path. The state executive director of the Rehabilitation, Emergency and Relief Agency (RERA), Hassan Rawayyau, who disclosed this...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday described as totally unacceptable the step taken by President Goodluck Jonathan on the recent controversy between President of the Court of Appeal, Ayo Salami and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, J...
The Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) has called for the suspension of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida from the National Council of State following their much publicised verbal war. In a communiqué issued yesterday in Kaduna and signe...
The President, Nigerian Institute of Animal Science(NIAS), Professor Placid Njoku, has said that Nigeria imports over 95 per cent of its milk. Speaking at the 3rd Induction Ceremony of the institute in Enugu recently, Njoku noted that livestock sector ...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed has ordered the immediate relocation of the popular Nyanya Wednesday Market from its present location. The minister has also ordered the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AM...
The father of Chelsea of England star, John Mikel Obi has been found. Mr Michael Obi who was abducted in Jos since August 12 was found in Kano, a cosmopolitan city in the northern part of the country. He was found alive. Mikel played for Chelsea last w...
A university Don, Dr. Sule Kano, has described the views expressed in the face-off between former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida as essentially an intra class conflict. Sule, who teaches Political Science at the Usman Danfodio Unive...
Nigeria, so far unbeaten in the African Basketball championship for men going on in Antananarivo, Madagascar, will today hope to stretch their clean slate when they confront Chad. After impressing in all their group matches ending up as leaders of Grou...
Premier League Club Owners Association have given thumps up to the minister of sports and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman for his quick intervention and fearless initiative towards ensuring peace in the nation’s f...
MasterCard index has ranked Nigeria as the most optimistic market in Africa. The current results of its worldwide index of consumer confidence survey for the first half of this year made available to LEADERSHIP in Lagos, revealed that the Nigerian cons...
A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, has told accountants to tackle the endemic corruption in Nigeria. Falana made the call at the investiture of the 10th President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in Lagos on Saturday. Accord...
Officials of ESER West Africa Ltd., the Turkish firm that won the contract for the rehabilitation of the over 300 kilometers rail tracks within the south east and south- south geo political zones of the country have arrived Enugu. The Eastern Railways ...
The central objective of supervisors and regulators is to boost confidence in the financial system and to use all available tools to ensure that financial institutions are not controlled by criminals or being misused for criminal purposes, the National...