On Friday, March 3, 2023, the Supreme Court annulled the naira redesign policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) late last year with the backing of the federal government. The court ruled that the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes will remain legal tender until December 31 and compelled the CBN to issue the old notes to Nigerians. The Supreme Court’s judgment came three weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari, in a national broadcast,...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Eti-Osa federal constituency seat in the House of Representatives, Olubankole Wellington, has broken his silence since losing the election. Banky W, as he is popularly known, lost the seat, contested on February 25, to Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party (LP). Attah polled 24,075 votes to beat Banky W who had 18,666 votes. In a video that he shared of himself speaking during a church service on...

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged his supporters against protesting on court premises when the presidential election tribunal commences. The Appeal Court will today hear the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) application seeking to set aside earlier order granted to both Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to inspect the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. Obi and Atiku had obtained the order of the...

Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has said that the secure environment created by his government was what enabled the huge turnout of voters in the presidential election in the state, which led to the bulk votes received by Mr Peter Obi. The governor who spoke through his Press secretary, Mr Christian Aburime, during an interactive session with journalists said about eight local government areas in the state which had previously been annexed by criminal...