Currency Swap: Buhari Expresses Concern As Nigerians Queue in Banks, Finance Minister Reveals

EconomyMoneyNewsNigeriaCurrency Swap: Buhari Expresses Concern As Nigerians Queue in Banks, Finance Minister Reveals

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 2, 2023

Hajia Zaniab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, has revealed that  President, Muhammadu Buhari is concerned about the pain Nigerians are going through in accessing the redesigned naira notes. Ahmed disclosed this on Thursday when she was featured at the 65th State House briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team and likened the current situation experienced by Nigerians to a patient having a wound or deep sore, but must submit to excruciating...

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APC Nat’l Youth Leader Tours North-Central, Inspires Commitment Among Youths

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC Nat’l Youth Leader Tours North-Central, Inspires Commitment Among Youths

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 2, 2023

Hon. Dayo Israel, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Youth Leader,  has inspired a renewed commitment to the party’s triumph in the Feb 25 general elections with visits of Taraba, Benue, and Niger States, to complete the region’s nationwide youth mobilisation tour. A press statement by the office of the National Youth leader on Thursday, where he embarked on a conclusive lap of the North-Central tour which began last week, with so many hours drive...

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Naira scarcity: “We are in the jungle but we have the new notes”, bandits’ leader taunts FG (Video)

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNaira scarcity: “We are in the jungle but we have the new notes”, bandits’ leader taunts FG (Video)

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 2, 2023

As Nigerians continue to deal with the scarcity of the naira notes, a video of a notorious bandit leader, identified as Kachalla Baleri, flaunting the redesigned naira notes has gone viral. In the unverified video shared on Twitter by @Edrees4P on Thursday, Baleri, flanked on both sides by three of his gang members, each armed with AK 47 rifles, was seen in possession of the new naira notes. Speaking in the Hausa language, Baleri said,...

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Supreme Court Nullifies Bwacha’s Governorship Candidate

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSupreme Court Nullifies Bwacha’s Governorship Candidate

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 2, 2023

A five-member panel led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun of the Supreme Court Abuja on Wednesday nullified Emmanuel Bwacha as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State. The Supreme Court affirmed the verdict of the Federal high court which held that the APC did not conduct any valid governorship primary in Taraba State that produced Bwacha as governorship candidate. Recall that a federal high court in Jalingo, Taraba state, first sacked Bwacha...

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Over 380 People Killed, 71 Others Abducted In Niger State

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaOver 380 People Killed, 71 Others Abducted In Niger State

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has released that no fewer than about 380 people were killed and 71 others abducted in Niger State between 2015 and 2021. The North-Central coordinator of the centre, Maj. Gen. Hassan Ibrahim Bature (retd) disclosed this at a sensitisation Programme for the newly posted National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members to the State at the NYSC’s permanent Orientation camp in Paiko, the headquarters...

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Protest Hits Enugu As Residents Cry Against Cost Of Livelihood

EconomyLocal GovernmentNewsNigeriaProtest Hits Enugu As Residents Cry Against Cost Of Livelihood

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)February 2, 2023

Despite the billions of new naira notes purportedly printed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the diverse channels the apex bank listed for the dispense of the naira, the transition to its usage is causing untold hardship to the masses. Long queues at banks and filling stations have become the new normal hence the outrageous hike in food items and other commodities. The pressure is too much and if not strategically arrested can lead...

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Gunmen attack the INEC office, police station, and residential building in Anambra

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGunmen attack the INEC office, police station, and residential building in Anambra

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

Gunmen yesterday, attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A source said the hoodlums burnt the commission’s headquarters using Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. The gunmen also attacked a police station in Nnobi, in the same local government area, and a residential building inside the station, where they killed a boy, and injured a girl. The level of damage in the police station...

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IGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIGET Appoints Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Osita Ogbu Into Its  Advisory Board

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2023

The Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a leading Africa-focused public policy think tank has announced the appointments of Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu and Professor Osita Ogbu to the Institute’s Global Advisory Board. A press release made available to journalists on Thursday reads, “We are privileged to welcome these two distinguished Nigerians as members of our eminent Global Advisory Board”, said Professor Kingsley Moghalu, the Founder and President of IGET and a former Deputy Governor...

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APC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC National Youth Leader Inaugurates Jagaban Movement In Rivers

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

…As Tonye Cole, State Exco Affirm Support For Tinubu The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Dayo Israel, has inaugurated the Rivers State chapter of the Jagaban Movement, a national grassroots youth mobilisation unit structured into regions, states, Local Government  Areas (LGAs) wards, and Polling Units, with the objective of mobilising young voters for Bola Tinubu, PREACH presidential candidate and other candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections. The...

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729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

NewsNigeriaPolitics729 Ballot Boxes, 243 Cubicles, Others Lost As Gunmen Attack, Anambra INEC Office

PilotnewsFebruary 1, 2023

Ahead of the 2023 general elections!, about 729 ballot boxes, 243 voting cubicles, and 256 election bags are part of election materials destroyed in Idemili South LGA offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  as gunmen carried out a coordinated attack on the area on Wednesday. According to Dr. Queen Elizabeth Agwu, the Resident Commissioner (REC) for Anambra State, the shocking development to INEC headquarters, was contained in a statement released by Barrister Festus...

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