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Lagos budgets N482.86bn for modern infrastructure
The Lagos State Government has allocated N482.86 billion in its 2023 budget to the provision of modern infrastructure for residents of the State. The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr…
Police, army will protect voters during general elections: NSA Monguno
Babagana Monguno, the national security adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, has assured Nigerians that the February 25 and March 11 elections would be peaceful. Mr Monguno gave the assurance during…
Nobody can say what will happen to Nigeria if I don’t become president – Obi
Peter Obi, the presidential flag bearer on the platform of the Labour Party, says he wishes Nigeria well but expresses concern about what will happen next to Nigeria if he loses the February 25…
2023: 6,708,451 PVCs collected in Lagos – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State said a…
National Crises: Buhari Convenes Emergency Council Of State Meeting Friday
An emergency meeting of the Council of State, convened by President Muhammadu Buhari will hold on Friday to discuss national crises including petrol and naira scarcity, insecurity and others, ahead…
Emefiele can’t fund activities of IPOB, says Group
The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) has said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
IGP Dares Police Commission, Posts New CPs To Lagos, Ogun
The battle of wits between the Police Service Commission (PSC), and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, continued yesterday, with the latter’s decision to post new Commissioners of…
Lagos APC Suspends Campaigns Indefinitely
The Lagos State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its campaign towards the forthcoming elections. According to a statement issued yesterday by the party’s state chairman,…
Atiku’s Camp Kicks As APC Wants Election Shifted By Four Weeks
The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday rejected moves by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to extend the 2023 general elections by…
Naira/Petrol Crisis: TUC Gives FG 7days Ultimatum
…puts state executives on red alert The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the scarcity of petrol and the…
Sanwo-Olu Commiserates With Funke Akindele Over Mother’s Death
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has sympathized with the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos, Ms Funke Akindele over the death of her beloved…
Naira/Fuel Crisis: Police Kill One As Protesters Shut CBN Office, Block Ondo Road
Protests broke out in parts of the country on Tuesday over the severe economic impacts of the naira and fuel scarcity. The scarcity of the redesigned banknotes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the…
Fuel Scarcity: NNPCL begins direct supply of petrol to IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Tuesday said the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) has allocated Premium Motor Spirit (PMS),…
Election: Shake-Up In Police, DIGs, AIGs, CPs Redeployed
Less than twenty days to the general elections across the country, authorities of the Nigeria Police Force, on Tuesday, ordered the immediate redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, Assistant…
INEC Chairman Yakubu, Emefiele Meet Amid Naira Scarcity
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, attended a meeting with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.…
Lagos: We have no business with MC Oluomo — INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos has dissociated itself from the letter…
Ikenga Ugochinyere’s house attacked again by gunmen
Three weeks after the house of the spokesman of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Ugochinyere, was attacked by gunmen, which resulted in several deaths, armed men have once again…
New Naira Notes: Stakeholders Working To Address Issues – CIBN
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) said stakeholders in the banking industry are working assiduously towards ensuring that issues related to the availability of the new naira notes are…
Obi will win on large voter turnout; low turnout favours Tinubu – Stears Poll
A large turnout of voters at the February 25 presidential election will pave the way for Peter Obi’s victory at the presidential election, says a poll conducted by Nigeria’s data intelligence provider,…
BREAKING: IPMAN directs members in Borno to suspend operations, shut filling stations
The Borno chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has directed members to suspend all operations. In a statement signed on Tuesday by Mohammed Kuluwu, IPMAN…
Court injunction on Naira swap: June 12 elements at it again, says Ganduje
Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has alleged that elements of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election are…
Naira Notes Crisis: Buhari Meets Governors Tambuwal, Bagudu, Central Bank Boss, Emefiele In Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met privately with the Chairman of the…
Opposition plotting to use petrol, naira scarcity to scuttle elections, says Tinubu
Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has called for calm over the scarcity of petrol and new naira notes. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, Tinubu said the opposition is…
Atiku makes U-turn on Naira redesign policy
Tongue in cheek, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, made a U-turn from his willy-nilly support for the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of…