the ultimate prize of forty-five million naira, a winner will emerge today at the Big Brother Naija, third edition on Sunday, 22nd April, 2018. With five house mates remaining and the final week gone today, who will be crowned the winner of BBN Double Wahala Edition? The social media is already agog with votes; support…
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118m Nigerian Adults Have No Bank Account – World Bank
Recent data provided by the World Bank says 118 million Nigerians do not have bank accounts. The information was made available in the latest Global Findex Database report released on Thursday at the ongoing Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington DC. According to the report, only 40 per cent…
PMB Pays Tribute To Gani Fawehinmi On 80th Posthumous Birthday
President Muhammadu Buhari has paid tribute to Nigeria’s foremost social critic and selfless legal luminary, Chief Abdul Ganiyu ‘‘Gani’’ Fawehinmi, SAN, on his posthumous 80th birthday, describing the late legal icon ‘‘as a true conscience of the nation, defender of democracy and people’s rights advocate’’. As the world posthumously marks the 80th birthday of Chief…
UN Warns Cameroon Over Nigeria Refugees
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged the Cameroonian authority not to send Nigerian refugees back to the Boko Haram violence they fled from. Despite warnings, Nigerian refugees and asylum seekers who fled Boko Haram violence continue to be returned from Cameroon, UNHCR said, underscoring the need to accord international…
How 2 Attempts To Unseat Saraki Failed
Indication has emerged that the snatching of the mace in the Senate last week was the second plot to effect a change in the leadership of Senate headed by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki. According to a senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of their pledge to the Senate president not leak…
88,000 Children At Risk Of Death In Northeast – UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried the spread of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in the Northeast zone of Nigeria, warning that 88,000 children with health the condition are at risk of death in the region if they are not treated. UNICEF also said that about one million children between the ages of six…
Weeks To LG Polls, Fire Guts Kaduna SIEC Office
The office of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) was yesterday gutted by fire. Although no life was lost in the fire incident at the commission’s office located located along Sokoto road, the development is coming at a time KADSIECOM is preparing to conduct elections for the 23 local government councils of the state…
6 APC Members Feared Dead At Benue Zonal Meeting
At least six members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State were allegedly killed and several others injured during the party’s Benue South senatorial caucus meeting held at Otukpo on Friday. LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that trouble started when some supporters of the current chairman of the party in the state, Comrade Abbah…
Foreign Investors Shifting Focus To Non-Oil Sectors – Emir Sanusi
The Emir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that foreign companies were looking to make investments in other sectors of the Nigerian economy apart from oil. Sanusi made these comments while speaking with journalists at a US-Nigeria Investment Summit held at the Nigerian Embassy…
Uncertainty Trails PDP’s Proposed Change Of Name
Despite ongoing efforts to grow the opposition base ahead of the general election in 2019, the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is still locked in uncertainly over whether or not to change its name, it was learnt yesterday. This comes as presidential aspirants cut across some opposition platforms have commenced lobbying to…
34 Kaduna Lawmakers Sponsor 4 Bills In 3 Years
The 34 members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly have sponsored only four bills in three years, LEADERSHIP Weekend findings have revealed. A document obtained by our correspondent showed that out of the 63 bills passed by the Kaduna State lawmakers, 59 were executive bills, while only four bills were sponsored by some of…
Nigeria To Vaccinate 4.3m Children In One Year
As Nigeria joins other African countries to commemorate Vaccination Week on the continent, the federal government has expressed confidence that the country, in the next one year, would be able to vaccinate the 4.3 million children that have not been vaccinated in last few years. The executive secretary/chief executive officer, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency…