The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has issued verification notice to depositors of Post Service Savings and Loans in-liquidation. The NDIC on its official Twitter handle on Saturday, said the verification was to effect payment of insured deposits to the depositors. The corporation said the exercise would commence between Nov. …

Military men made up of both army and Air force last night killed 8 of some bandits who were trying to attack New Bussa Borgu local government area of Niger state. Sources in the city hosting Kainji Hydro Power Dam told LEADERSHIP that the combined military team also arrested the …

The former Senior Special Assistant to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on House of Representatives Matters, Hon. Abdulrahaman Sumaila, on Saturday in Kano challenged the Federal Government to address social injustice, marginalisation and inequality, so as to ensure enduring peace and stability in the country. Sumaila, who is …

Nigeria loses at least 700,000 barrels of crude oil to thieves daily, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said in Effurun, Delta State on Saturday. He made the assertion at the 2002 graduation of students of the Petroleum Training Institute. The minister who was represented by Ambassador Gabriel …

The Central Criminal Court popularly known as Old Bailey, United Kingdom, has reportedly said that the plea and trial hearing of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice over organ trafficking scheduled for Monday, will not hold. Recall that Ekweremadu and his wife, on July 23, 2022, …

The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. “So far, the number of people who died has reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the number for both the …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has refuted claims that children in Nigeria were being administered a vaccine that contains 40 per cent mercury which was prescribed by foreign organisations. The agency made this known in a press statement signed by its Director General, Prof. Mojisola …

A former Edo State Commissioner for Information, Kassim Afegbua has said that contrary to media reports, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar did not hold any crucial meeting with the critical stakeholders of the United States State Department. Afegbua in a statement issued Sunday claimed that “this …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS), have given the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to rehabilitate the highway linking Abeokuta with Sango-Ota and Lagos State. The students, while lamenting the deplorable condition of the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, said …

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on all presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 presidential election to demonstrate leadership by instructing their “campaign councils and political parties to regularly and widely publish the sources of their campaign funding.” In an open letter at the weekend, signed by …