The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has joined the call for an indigenous coach to lead the national soccer team, Super Eagles. The executive secretary of NEITI, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, made the call at the NEITI House while receiving a delegation from the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Abuja Branch, on a…
The Northern Ethnic Youths Group Assembly (NEYGA) has tasked the members of Northern Senators Forum (NSF) to rally round Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, for the advancement of national interest. The group made the call in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Mr. Ibrahim Dan-Musa, sent to journalists in Abuja on Sunday. Dan-Musa said it would…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to enforce a judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos which declared payment of pensions to former governors as unlawful. SERAP also called on the President to put modalities in place to recover pensions already collected by former governors and to challenge…
Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde has described the submission of memoranda by state governors for state police as a waste of time. Governor Makinde who stated this in an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, faulted the 16 governors’ submission of a report on the matter to the National Economic Council (NEC). LEADERSHIP recalls…
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has clarified that contrary to reports, 137 schoolchildren and not 287 were abducted on March 7, 2024 from Kuriga village in Chikun local government area of the State. The governor, who made the clarification on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’ programme, said all the schoolchildren abducted by the marauding bandits…
Governor Bassey Otu has charged members of the Microfinance and Enterprise Development Agency (MEDA) to contribute their quota to the present administration’s prosperity programme by innovatively driving Cross River atop the enterprise development radar among Nigerian states. The governor gave the charge when he inaugurated the chairman and members of Microfinance and Enterprises Development Agency…
The inability of most tenants to pay rent, as a result of the current economic hardship, has caused strained relationships between landlords and tenants. There are escalating court cases over issues of rent defaults, LEADERSHIP can authoritatively. Residential tenants are significantly impaired by rent defaults which piled up as a result of setbacks to their…
Controversy yesterday trailed the actual number of schoolchildren abducted by bandits in Kuriga, Kaduna State on March 7, 2024. Contrary to the 287 children widely reported by the media when the incident occurred, the state government has said only 137 were kidnapped and that all of them have been released. Nigerians woke up yesterday morning…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have ended their seven-day warning strike over the withholding of their four months’ salaries. In a circular to all the branch chairmen in public universities across the country yesterday, SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, directed the union’s members to resume work immediately….
Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has described the recurring cases of kidnapping of school children and other forms of insecurity in the country as ‘bad and very unfortunate’, appealing for a synergy between the federal, state and local government to tackle the problem. He said when the three tiers can channel their resources and energy…
Baffled with inactivity of Labour Unions to tackle the federal government over hardship and hunger in the land, stakeholders have suggested that only selfless, disciplined and incorruptible leaders can wrestle and rescue the masses from this current state of economic despair. Noting that though additional hardship, began over subsidy removal, the labour leaders could not…
The controller of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kwara Area Command, Faith Ojeifo, has called for a stronger inter agency collaboration among security agencies in the state. Ojeifo made the call during his visits to various security agencies in the state, including the Nigerian Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Immigration Service, Department of State Service…
