Suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old notes to scores of commuters in the Lake Chad Basin ahead of the deadline of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) cashless policy, sources have said. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred after Mairari village, along […]
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, on Tuesday said possession of the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) would be required for every visitor to his palace. He stated this at his palace on Tuesday while receiving the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke. Oluwo noted that high voters’ population has political […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to take back the country as the general elections approach. A statement by Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia, Director Of Public Affairs and Lead Spokesperson, The BIG TENT, quoted Obasanjo as saying this in Port Harcourt when he chaired the Obi-Datti South South Business Summit, organized by the […]
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said over three million Nigerian students who are eligible to vote in the forthcoming presidential election should not be disenfranchised. He said this during a meeting with observers from the European Union, Election Observation Mission (EU-EOM). Mr. Obi also expressed worries over the […]
The house of representatives has approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to secure an additional N1 trillion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The loan will be used to fund the 2022 supplementary budget. The lawmakers approved the request on Tuesday following the consideration and adoption of the committees on finance, […]
Alhassan Bawu, campaign director of the Labour Party (LP) in Bauchi state, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking on Tuesday at a media briefing in Bauchi, Bawu said all the chairpersons of the party, state, zonal officers as well as national officers from the zone have also defected to support Atiku […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has taken over Addax Petroleum’s production sharing contract (PSC) assets. Addax is owned by Sinopec, a state-owned Chinese firm. Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO), NNPC Limited, GCEO; and Yonghong Chen, outgoing managing director (MD), Addax, signed the closing documents on behalf of the […]
A federal high court in Abuja has fixed February 15 to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to allow Nigerians in diaspora to vote in the forthcoming general election. Inyang Ekwo, the presiding judge, fixed the date on Tuesday after counsel for the parties adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against […]
Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday. Fifteen bodies bearing bullet impacts were found on Monday near Linguekoro, a village in the western province of Comoe, regional governor Colonel Jean-Charles Some said in a statement. […]
The Lagos High Court sitting in Osborne, Ikoyi has granted an application compelling a judgement debtor, Bamise Ajetunmobi, to appear before it on Thursday, February 2. In October 2021, Bamise, his wife Elizabeth, and two firms linked to them, Imagine Global Holding Company Ltd and Imagine Global Solutions Ltd, had allegedly defrauded some Nigerian […]
