Four days after youths of the Eket community, Akwa Ibom, took to the streets to protest the poor quality and slow pace of work on the Eket-Ibeno road, the management of the construction firm has explained the situation. Project manager, Fountain Constr...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has said that Nigeria can only overcome the problem of corruption if there is a collective action against it. Waziri who spoke as the guest speaker at the 62nd a...
The minister of works, Arc. Mike Onolememen, has pledged speedy completion of the Okene-Auchi-Benin road, just as contractors resumed work on the Ore-Benin road. According to a press statement made available to LEADERSHIP, the minister made the pledge ...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is to establish mobile courts to try drug hawkers, a statement said. A statement issued by the Zonal Public Relations officer of NAFDAC, Mr. Cyril Monye, in Port Harcourt on Frid...
Hundreds of workers of the Sagbama local government council area of Bayelsa State who were sacked, as a result of revelations from the report of the Finance and General Purpose Committee of the council over their alleged involvement in the N10m monthly...
No fewer than 13 families in Shuwa District of Madagali local government area of Adamawa, have been displaced by flood, the sole administrator of the development area, Alhaji Suleiman Duhu, has said. Duhu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that seve...
The Niger State government has approved the sum of N300m for water supply to the residents of Minna, the commissioner for water resources, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed, has said. Mohammed made the information known at a post-executive council meeting briefin...
The special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on media and publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, has said that the presidency cannot call for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha and a bus...
Damning reports emerged yesterday at the Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the activities of the Bureau for Private Enterprises (BPE), as a World Bank report between 1999-2003 indicted a former Director-General of BPE, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, for th...
The Kano Emirate Council is now in a fix over what to do in the case of one of its four kingmakers, the Sarkin Dawaki Mai Tuta, Alhaji Aminu Dan’Agundi, whose dismissal from the council was recently reversed by a Kano St...
A member of the family of late Chief MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Alhaji Olalekan Yushau Abiola, has lamented that in spite of the sacrifices made by the family to entrench democracy in the country,...
As state governors in the country mark their quarterly sensitisation campaign on the eradication of poliomyelitis across the country, the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, urged his counterparts in other states to give priority to...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has threatened to mobilise its members against state governors across the country, accusing them of strangulating the lower tier of government of funds. NULGE national president, Comrade Ibrahim K...
Minister of Health, Prof Christian Onyebuchi Chukwu, yesterday expressed the federal government’s readiness to partner with the Edo state government in the area of sensitising the public on the need to tackle the scourge of cancer and the deadly ...
Rivers State Local Government Commission (RSLGC) says it would monitor and evaluate the performance of all principal officers of the local government councils in the state and drop those who fail in their duties without delay. Chairman of the commissio...