Naira Redesign: Labour Party, SWAGA back council of state decision

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira Redesign: Labour Party, SWAGA back council of state decision

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 11, 2023

The Labour Party (LP) and the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA’23) have thrown their weight behind the position of the National Council of State (NCS) that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), should print more new naira notes or recirculate the old ones. Dr Yunusa Tanko, Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) noted on Friday that the best way the naira redesign policy can work is when more new naira notes...

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NDDC asks contractors not to pay commission to middlemen

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNDDC asks contractors not to pay commission to middlemen

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 11, 2023

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has asked contractors not to pay commission to contractors and declares as illegal the payment of percentages on contract sums and all forms of financial inducements to middlemen who claim to be fronting for the Commission’s officials. The call was made on Friday during an interactive session with contractors at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt by the Managing Director of the Commission, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, He described the...

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Nigerian Universities To Shutdown Academic Activities

EducationNewsNigeriaNigerian Universities To Shutdown Academic Activities

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 11, 2023

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the suspension of academic activities in all universities to enable students exercise their franchise in the 2023 general elections. The NUC said the decision is based on the directive by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in a letter dated Thursday, February 9, 2023 sent to vice-chancellors of all universities and the directors of inter-university centres. Part of the letter reads “As Vice-Chancellors of all Universities and Director/Chief Executive...

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National Population Commission To Conduct Census In Sambisa Forest

NewsNigeriaNational Population Commission To Conduct Census In Sambisa Forest

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 11, 2023

The National Population Commission (NPC) has said it is set to conduct a national census in all nooks and crannies of the country including those residing in Sambisa Forest in Borno state, the jungle of Boko Haram terrorists will also be counted during the exercise. Chairman of the Commission, Nasir Kwarra, who disclosed this during a presentation at the 24th edition of President Buhari Administration Scorecard on Thursday in Abuja, noted that insecurity will not...

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2023: INEC bars partisan, card-carrying politicians from collation, returning officers’ jobs

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: INEC bars partisan, card-carrying politicians from collation, returning officers’ jobs

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 10, 2023

Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the electoral body is sticking to its previous arrangement to pick collation and returning officers from the ivory tower, and so has said that partisan, card-carrying members of political parties are not eligible to work as collation or returning officers in the 2023 general elections. He stated that despite some unpalatable experiences, the commission will continue to rely on the academic...

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Naira Swap Deadline: CNPP accuses APC of using court to arm-twist CBN to buy notes

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira Swap Deadline: CNPP accuses APC of using court to arm-twist CBN to buy notes

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 10, 2023

Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), the umbrella body of registered political parties and political associations in the country, has stated that the action of Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in seeking to ambush the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is a plot to retain the old naira notes for the purpose of vote buying during the 2023 general elections. The group in a press statement issued on...

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Naira Redesign: Allow Your Successor To Champion Cause, Miyetti Allah Tells Buhari

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira Redesign: Allow Your Successor To Champion Cause, Miyetti Allah Tells Buhari

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 8, 2023

The Leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to revise or hands up on the policy and allow his successor champion the Naira redesign policy. The Association alleged that the Policy was a plot by some politicians working in and around the President to paint him black after the expiration of his administration. leader of the association in South East, Alhaji Gidado Siddikki, who spoke to...

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Lagos 2023: Labour Party Senatorial Candidate, Salvador calls for removal of Lagos REC

NewsNigeriaPoliticsLagos 2023: Labour Party Senatorial Candidate, Salvador calls for removal of Lagos REC

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)February 8, 2023

Hon. Moshood Salvador, the Labour Party (LP) Senatorial candidate for Lagos West in the 2023 general elections has called for the removal from office of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje for allegedly working against the interest of South Easterners residents in the state. Salvador who was the former Lagos State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the call at a...

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Seun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSeun Kuti calls Peter Obi an opportunist, claims Obi can’t deliver Nigeria

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi as ‘an opportunist’ who has no plan for the country. Kuti, the last son of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, made his stance on Obi’s presidential prospect known during an online interview with ‘TheMicOnPodcast’, hosted by Channels TV’s Seun Okinbaloye. The singer said the former Anambra governor, who only started a movement because he lost the presidential ticket...

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Naira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNaira scarcity: Aba residents cook, eat noodles at bank premises (Video)

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 8, 2023

With the lingering cash scarcity and queue at commercial banks, some Aba residents decided not to starve while waiting for their turn to dispense cash from a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the commercial city. The video shared on Twitter yesterday showed some men eating noodles from a pot at the bank premises while other bank customers watched. The voice behind the camera said the meal was prepared right on the bank premises, adding...

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