The State Security Service (SSS) has said that it has made a headway in its bid to mitigate the menace of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, with the arrest of key cell commanders of the sect along with over 100 other suspects in five northern stat...
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday said the apex bank has given approval-in- principle to Stanbic Bank to operate non-interest (Islamic) banking in the country. Sanusi, who spoke at an international confe...
Contrary to speculations that the managing director of the World Bank and former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been dropped by the presidency as a ministerial nominee, she was at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) in Abu...
The Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it will join a strike for the implementation of the new minimum wage by the Nigeria Labour Congress even as it chided the federal government for allowing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday sent the Group Managing Director of Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, to prison for disobeying a valid court order. In his verdict over the alleged contemptuous act of the GMD, Justice Charles Archibong,...
Airtel Nigeria has assured its customers of improved services within the shortest possible time. The chief executive officer of Aitrel Nigeria, Mr Rajan Swaroop, disclosed this at a media chat with journalists in Abuja, at the weekend. He also threw th...
A leading manufacturer in home appliances and health care equipment, Philips,has said that inconsistency in the policies of the federal government was responsible for the closure of its factory in Nigeria. The executive chairman, Philips Project Centre...
As the controversy over the introduction of non-interest (Islamic) banking rages, three experts, Professor Pat Utomi, Dr. Kingsley Muoghalu and Ismail Rawdan in separate analysis of the issue, argue that the banking model has the potential to ma...
Following the meeting of some South-East stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Enugu, demanding the region’s completion of its tenure of the party’s chairmanship, the presidency and the National Working Committee of the part...
A young man Augustine Ejiakpo of Okwejegba Village in Okpe Council Area of Delta State has been arrested for the alleged murdered of his 65 year-old mother, Mrs. Margret Uyayefe over family differences last Saturday night. Reports said that Margret had...
The people of Imane community in Olamaboro local government area of Kogi State were on Saturday thrown into confusion, following the killing of some of their townsmen by thunderstorm. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that seven people, six females and a ma...
A middle aged man in Kaduna state has killed a young man, one Yusuf Saidu for allegedly have an affair with his wife. The deceased was said to be a recruit- trainee of the Nigerian Airforce. The Kaduna State Police Command has begun investigation and i...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godwill Akpabio on Saturday night stayed away from the meeting of the governors of the six states in the South South geo-political zone, held at Government House, Port Harcourt. LEADERSHIP observed that the Saturday&rsqu...
The U.S. Census Bureau has predicted a rapid growth of the Nigeria’s population to over 400 million by year 2050. The findings are the result of population estimates and projections of 228 countries compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau's Intern...
The Appeal Court in Calabar, Cross River state has refused to grant the application of the Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu asking the court to stop the lower court from continuing with the matter against his ascendance into the throne unti...