Governors Nasir El-Rufai and Badaru Abubakar of Kaduna and Jigawa states respectively have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200, describing it as a total disregard of the Supreme Court’s stance on the matter. In a nationwide broadcast on Thursday, President Buhari said the old N500 and N1,000 banknotes ceased to be legal tender on February 10. He, however, directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a lifting of the blanket visa ban clamped down on Nigerians by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The president, on Monday, said he made the request during a telephone conversation with the UAE president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. President Buhari said he called Sheikh Al Nahyan to commiserate with him on the death of his mother-in-law, Sheikha Maryam Al Falasi, during which important issues...

The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Funke Akindele, has urged Lagos youths to vote for PDP’s presidential candidate and governorship candidate in the state during the upcoming general election. Akindele gave the charge at a youth programme organised by the Lagos Youths Movement (LYM) in the Alimosho area of Lagos yesterday. She said a vote for the Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, also known as Jandor, is...

A former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has advised Nigerians to focus on the upcoming election rather than staging protests over the naira and fuel scarcity in the country. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district in the 8th National Assembly, made this known via his Twitter page on Wednesday. He also urged the southeast to resist any sit-at-home order that is geared towards boycotting elections in the region. Sani tweeted, “The general public must avoid any...

… As Bayelsa, Edo States joined as respondents The Supreme Court has on Wednesday, joined the Attorneys General of Katsina, Lagos, Cross Rivers, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, and Sokoto States as co-plaintiffs in the suit challenging the Naira redesign policy of the Federal Government. The seven states had through their AGs applied to be joined in the suit. Three states of Northern extraction, namely, Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara, had in a motion ex-parte filed on February...

…says he’s stepping stone to Igbo presidency The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has urged the Enugu people embrace mainstream politics to be able to enjoy prosperity, economic development, peace and security. Atiku also insisted that he’s the Stepping stone to the Igbo presidency. Speaking at the PDP presidential campaign rally in Enugu State on Tuesday, Atiku said that Enugu has been PDP from inception and is still PDP today...