Some Point of Sale (PoS) operators in satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are making brisk business with the new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN0 has fixed Jan. 31 as the deadline for the use of...
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Comptroller Mohammed Auwal, newly redeployed Comptroller for the Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has tasked officers of the command on due process in their operations. Auwal gave the charge on Friday on resumption of office to take over the reign of affairs at the command...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed by a group seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from the 2023 general elections. Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, held that the plaintiff, the Incorporated Trustees...
Sen. Bassey Otu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Cross River, says he has the capacity and experience to take the state to the next level, if elected. Sen. Otu made the statement on Friday during party’s rally in Yala Local Government Area of the state. He...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) killed 381 people during the Yuletide “Operation Zero” tolerance to crashes across the nation. The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Dauda Biu, said this during a press briefing on Friday in Abuja that the Corps recorded a total of 626...
The Osun State Governorship election petitions tribunal has nullified the election of Ademola Adeleke as Governor of the state. The tribunal, in its ruling on this afternoon, declared Gboyega Oyetola, the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the validly elected governor of the state, according to a Channels...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun a cash swap policy in Bayelsa, through agents, to distribute the newly-redesigned naira notes to rural communities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the CBN recently made arrangements with super agents, as well as mobile money operators to swap...
Nigeria recorded 23,550 suspected cases of cholera in 2022 with Borno taking the lead with 12,459 cases. The country also lost 583 lives to the scourge in 2022, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said on Friday in Abuja. He told the...
Operators of Commercial Banks in the country have countered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over claims that the commercial banks have enough naira notes in their kitty but hoarding them. The banks countered the CBN when their officials appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi have been exchanging brickbats over pre-election violence. The PDP stated on Friday in Lokoja that the APC was responsible for Thursday’s destruction of its properties and those of its members in Ofu Local Government Area of...
The Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) said that 70 per cent of Nigerians still patronise herbal medicines, saying that it is as old as mankind. Dr Samuel Etatuvie, Director-General of NNMDA, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja said it is not undermining...
Heavily armed security operatives have barricaded roads leading to the Osun State High Court complex as the Election Petition Tribunal delivers verdict on the July 16, 2022, governorship election in the state. Mr Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the immediate past governor of the state, had...
The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Mary Leonard, has reassured of supporting Nigeria toward ensuring that the 2023 general election is free, fair and credible. Leonard said this at the 20th Daily Trust Dialogue with the theme “Interrogating the 2023 Presidential Agenda” in Abuja. She said that the U.S...
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has restated his commitment to devolution of power and restructuring of Nigerian federalism if elected the next president of Nigeria. Abubakar, former Vice President of the country, made the promise on Thursday in Abakaliki during a presidential...
Employment is essential to every adult who have needs and responsibility to cater for. It is what makes one self-reliant and help reduce or completely eradicate poverty in the society. Skill acquisition is the art of learning to do something in order to earn a living and or to survive. There...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint and Matriculation Board(JAMB) says it Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, does not own or operate any social media account and neither has he asked anybody to open or manage one on his behalf. A LinkedIn account purported to be the account of JAMB Registrar has been...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – After the recent inauguration of an Endowment Fund’s Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on Thursday declared that the task for NIPSS “is to determine how it will affect human history beginning with...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, is set to receive the 2022 Regulator of the Year Award at the highly-coveted Vanguard Personality of the Year Awards. Vanguard Newspaper Limited, the organizers of the event,...
Cristiano Ronaldo has been gifted a unique £630,000 watch to celebrate his big money move to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia. The Portuguese forward completed a £175million-a-year deal to move to the Middle East in January, two months after his Manchester United contract was terminated after a bizarre, bombshell interview blasting the club...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has embarked on an aggressive ward to ward campaigns in the ten electoral wards in the area. The party said the ward to ward campaign was part of its strategies...