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Banks begin collection of old naira notes despite CBN’s denial of directive
Commercial banks have started collecting the old N500 and N1,000 naira notes from their customers. The development comes despite the…
Contempt: Court Vacates Order Sentencing MD, Company Secretary of Fidelity Bank To Six Weeks In…
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja , Lagos has vacated its ruling…
2023: How Insecurity May Affect S/East’s 10.90m Votes
Increasing attacks on government facilities, especially offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the South East by criminal elements might affect the ability of the over 10million…
Naira redesign: Governors shouldn’t hide under immunity to commit treason, says CSO
The Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy, a…
6 Days To Go: Uncertainty As IGP Suspends Deployment Of DIGs, AIGs, CPs For Election Duty
Six days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has suspended the redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), Assistant…
Peter Obi only candidate who offers Nigerians hope of change – The Economist
The Economist says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is the best choice for Nigeria. In a recent article titled ‘Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership’, the London-based newspaper said Obi…
Parties Devise Strategies To Beat Cash Crunch
Six days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, political parties are struggling to get cash for expenditure, including the payment of allowances to agents on election day, Daily Trust…
‘You stood by Borno during trying times’ — Zulum hails Tinubu at APC rally
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, says Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), showed the state unmatched support during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency. Speaking…
Why I rejected plea by Obasanjo to join forces with Obi – Kachikwu
The presidential candidate of African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dumebi Kachikwu, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted him to join forces with Peter Obi, his counterpart in Labour Party after…
Ex-APC legal adviser Muiz Banire asks Nigerians willing to sell votes to collect only new notes
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Muiz Banire has advised Nigerians willing to sell their votes in the coming elections to only accept notes recognised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as legal tender in…
Abort plans of disrupting elections — Gen Yahaya warns thugs, miscreants
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has warned criminals and thugs to stay away from and desist from causing infractions in the 2023 election’. Gen Yahaya assured Nigerians of the loyalty of…
Move against CBN over Naira swap saga – MURIC tells Buhari
Amidst a protracted Nigerian fiscal crisis, an Islamic human rights organisation, the…
Ohanaeze urges Igbos to vote en masse for Peter Obi
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide rose from an emergency meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) on Friday in Enugu, asking Igbos in the South-East to resist the sit-at-home order by self-styled…
Obasanjo’s In-Law, John Abebe Bags Seven Years Imprisonment For Forgery
A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Friday has sentenced former…
Attacks: Labour directs bank workers to stay at home
Organised Labour in the nation’s Financial Sector, yesterday directed bank workers to stay at home following increasing attacks on banks across the country over the scarcity of new notes. Under the aegis of…
Naira crisis: INEC submits cash request to CBN
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has presented its cash requirement for prosecuting the forthcoming elections to the Central Bank of Nigeria, as requested by the apex bank. It expressed…
Tinubu didn’t instigate govs against Buhari on Naira redesign — APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as fake, a media report that Sen. Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate asked party governors to disregard President Muhammadu Buhari’s orders on the…
Why report of 10,000 abortions in IDP camps is unbelievable – Borno govt
The Borno Government and other stakeholders on Friday explained why the claim of mass abortion at the Internal Displaced Camps as reported by an international news organization is not only unbelievable, but…
Abiodun threatens to revoke CofO of stores, corporation rejecting old notes
The Governor of Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has vowed to withdraw the certificate of occupancy of any corporation or store that refuses to…
Naira Crisis: Don’t Destroy Banks, Oluwo Begs Osun Youths
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulraosheed Adewale Akanbi, has appealed to youths in Osun State not to destroy banks in the name of protesting against the biting naira scarcity. Oluwo, in a statement Friday…
National Broadcast: Buhari was wrongly advised — Keyamo
Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was wrongly advised by insisting on the ban of the N500 and N1000 notes despite an ex parte order by the Supreme Court.…
Cash Crunch: Governors Push Out Palliatives In States
Governors have rolled out social intervention programmes aimed at providing succour to people in their states, especially in the face of the cash crunch and fuel scarcity. Daily Trust Saturday reports that…
Zainab Kassim, ex-presidential aide, files suit against Aisha Buhari over ‘rights abuse’
Zainab Kassim, a former special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari in the office of the first lady, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against Aisha Buhari. In a statement by ‘Deji Ajare, the…
Naira Scarcity: APC NWC summons state governors
Ahead of next Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election, the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has summoned state…