INEC Threatens To De-register ANPP
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) may join the list of proscribed political parties in the country if it fails to satisfactorily explain to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), why it is flouting the 1999 Constitution. LEADERSHIP gathered that INEC was threatening to withdraw the political party’s registration certificate over a technical matter concerning change in party constitution as enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution. In a letter dated January 28, 2013 signed by the INEC’s acting secretary and addressed to the ANPP National Chairman, Ogbonaya Onu,...
Court Remands Beninoise In Prison Custody Over Alleged Murder
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a Beninoise, Kaliso Tofiko, in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly stabbing his co-tenant to death.
Wife Shares Last Moment With The Late Ado Bayero’s Bodyguard
Hajiya Madinatu Abubakar Ahmadu was still in shock, six days after her husband, Maji Dadin Danrimi Ahmadu, was killed by gunmen that attacked the convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, last Saturday The late Ahmadu was the personal bodyguard of Alhaji Bayero, who is receiving treatment abroad alongside his two sons over the shock he received from the incident. Now a widow left with four children to cater for, Mrs. Ahmadu told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND yesterday that life would never be the same for her again because the vacuum left by her husband’s death would be difficult to...
Again, Transactions At NSE Close On Bullish Trend
Transactions at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday closed on a bullish trend for the third consecutive day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the All-Share Index, which opened at 31,446.22 rose by 137.26 basis points or 0.44 per cent to close at 31,583.48. Similarly, the market capitalisation grew by N44 billion to close at N10.102 trillion as against the N10.06 trillion posted on Jan
2015: Obasanjo, Governors Plot To Stop Jonathan – Clark
Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday said that it would have been more honourable for former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo to sit back home as a former president and political leader whose home should be a political pilgrim rather than parade himself all over the country as an indispensable ruler and party leader.
Senate Confirms Nebo, Turaki As Ministers
The Senate, yesterday, confirmed the nominations of Kabiru Taminu Turaki (Kebbi) and Prof. Chinedu Nebo (Enugu) as ministers.
NANS Urges FG To Ban Sale Of Handouts In Tertiary Institutions
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Kwara Chapter, on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to ban the sale of handouts in tertiary institutions in the country. The Chairman of the chapter, Akorede Shakiru, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin. He said NANS was in support of the motion by a Kwara Assembly member, Mr Moshood Bakare, concerning the sale of handouts in the nation’s tertiary institutions
Cross River Urges Border Communities To Embrace Peaceful Co-existence
The Cross River Government on Saturday told border communities in the state to live in peace with their neighbours to end communal crises in the state. The Security Adviser to Gov
Kalu Rejoins PDP As Party Sacks Ward Executive
Former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he co-founded in 1998. Kalu made his decision to return to the party known on Thursday in his country home at Igbere, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.
I’ve Not Sent Campaign Team Out For Presidential Campaign – Gov Aliyu
The Governor of Niger State, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has said that he had not sent any campaign team out for his purported presidential ambition as reported by the media on Tuesday. Aliyu who received the envoy from Ethiopia and the management of Federal University of Technology, Minna in council maintained yesterday that the team of PDP stalwarts who left Minna to Plateau State was a group that went to thank the state for supporting the election of national youth leader of the party who is from Niger State. “ Since 2015 is the in-thing, somebody think I sent them out,...
Aregbesola Decries Neglect Of Discharged Soldiers
The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has decried the attitude of the authorities in neglecting some of the discharged soldiers who fought in defence of the nation. He spoke in Osogbo, the state capital on Tuesday during the wreath laying ceremony and commissioning of the newly renovated military cenotaph as part of the activities marking the 2013 Armed Forces Remembrance Day. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Otunba Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, regretted that there are reports that the families of some soldiers that died in defence of the nation are yet to get...
BASG Seeks $171m For Power Project
The Bauchi State Government is seeking a loan of 171 million US dollars for the construction of the Yankari power project, Alhaji Yakubu Kirfi, Commissioner for Power and Energy, has said. He made the disclosure while defending the ministry's budget for the year before the State House of Assembly Committee on Budget and Appropriation in Bauchi. Kirfi said that the loan, which would be sought from Chinese Bank through the Federal Government, required the state to contribute only 15 per cent of the sum.