By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume has accused the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of suffering poor Nigerian and frustrating national economy with its cashless policy implementation process. Senator Ndume, who is also the Chairman,...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says there was no hitch in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) mock accreditation conducted in 12 Polling Units across six local government areas (LGAs) in Lagos State on Saturday. The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, disclosed this to newsmen after...
The Cross River State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Usani Usani, narrowly escaped being killed by suspected kidnappers along the Calabar-Ikom highway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that two unidentified persons were, however, not lucky as they were killed by the gunmen who shot...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the mock accreditation of voters in Onitsha, Anambra on Saturday worked seamlessly. Mr Reginald Onyeukwu, INEC’s Assistant Electoral Officer (AEO) in Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra, made the declaration while monitoring...
Dr Adeniran Tella, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Oyo State, says the success of Saturday mock accreditation in the state, is an affirmation that BVAS has come to stay. Tella made the assertions while monitoring the conduct of the exercise in 12 polling units across the three senatorial...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will be the next President of Nigeria. President Buhari, made the declaration in Lafia, capital of Nasarawa State, on Saturday at the APC Presidential Campaign rally that had...
President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred the title of Ambassador-in Situ to one hundred and fifteen foreign officers for their contributions to the nation’s development and economy. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama presented the letters of conferment on behalf of the President to serving Officers who have attained the...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) on Saturday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the new Naira policy and challenges Nigerians faced in accessing the new notes. Alhaji Yerima Shettima, the National President of the AYCF, in a statement on Saturday in Lagos, frowned...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) brought back 1,003 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic and Libya into Kano in 2022. Coordinator of its Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday that the exercise had the backing of the International...
The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines have never failed and will not fail Nigerians at the 2023 general elections. The declaration was made in Abuja on Saturday by INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while assessing activities at polling units in the FCT where mock accreditation of voters were...
Burkina Faso’s transition government has announced that the remains of President Thomas Sankara and his 12 companions assassinated on 15 October 1987 will be reburied later this month, at the Thomas Sankara Memorial in the capital, Ouagadougou. This decision is the result of consultations within the Armed Forces, the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Except for those with verifiable constraints such as lacking supplies from the CBN, Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed that any bank which refuses to dispense new naira notes via Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and banking halls should have its land revoked by...
By AUSTINE TSENZUGHUL, Bauchi – Nigerian youths have been charged to elect only politicians who will help them, actualize their dreams and develop potentials. They are also warned to shun those who use them as thugs and discard them after election, “for politics is all about human,and infrastructural development...
The Police Command in Enugu State has nabbed two male suspects possessing, transacting and selling counterfeited redesigned N1,000 notes within a council area in Enugu State. The suspects were in possession of counterfeited 180 pieces of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) newly- redesigned N1,000 notes, with face value...
Nigerian singer and producer, Timi Dakolo, has urged Nigerians to stay away from any negativity gatherings all in the name of religion. The renowned singer, who took to his Instagram page to give this advise to Nigerians, also warned them to be extremely careful with the kind of religious...
Some bank Customers in Sango-Ota have appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sanction Money Deposit Banks that are not paying the maximum N20,000 to customers over the counter. They expressed their views in separate interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ota,...
Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau) said that the people of Plateau would vote the candidates of the party at all levels in the forthcoming general elections. Gagdi, representing Pankshi/Kanke/Kanam, stated this at the campaign flag-off for his re-election bid on Friday in Pankshin. The lawmaker maintained that the party had...
Residents of Bauchi have continued to lament over scarcity of the new Naira notes as they were unable to get cash from counters in banks, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Point of Sales (POS) in the state. Some of the residents that spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, has ordered full enforcement of the CBN Act, 2007 that criminalises the hawking and selling of naira notes. The Force spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Friday in Abuja, that the IGP ordered...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), an umbrella body of Nigerian pastoralists, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to mainstream the interest of pastoralists in the implementation of cashless policy. It also called on the CBN to extend the...