Pastors Alex Tapere, Jacob Obaro and Daniel Olawande and other most influential ministers of the Redeemed Christians Church of God (RCCG) are among main speakers at the forthcoming first International Billionaire Christian Conference (IBCC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two days IBCC, targeted at bringing...
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The Council of State has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to print more redesigned naira notes or allow the new and old banknotes to circulate concurrently to ease the tension caused by the scarcity of cash. The Council approved the naira redesign...
Yiaga Africa, a Civil Society Organisation has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rectify observed lapses at the recently concluded mock accreditation for a successful 2023 election. The Executive Director, Yiaga Africa, Mr Samson Itodo said this while presenting the organisation’s report on Bimodal Voters Accreditation System(BVAS)...
An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Yusuf Ahmed has advised youths in the country to prioritise their lives before fighting for any politician during the upcoming 2023 general elections. Ahmed, who gave the advice in Ilorin on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said...
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has constituted an 11-member Commission of Inquiry to investigate the recent killing of no fewer than 40 volunteers (Yan-Sakai) by terrorists. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that recently, over 40 volunteers were ambushed and killed by terrorists in Bakori and Kanakara...
A lawmaker in Ondo state, Mr Sunday Olajide, has described as “choking’’ and pain inflicting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) redesigned naira note policy introduced late last year. Olajide, a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, representing Akure South Constituency 2, in a statement made available...
A meeting of the Council of State presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari went underway in Abuja on Friday. Top on the agenda are the 2023 general elections and the on-going cash crisis occasioned by CBN’s naira redesign and cashless policy. In attendance are Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and former...
Former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River State will be leading the launch on Wednesday 15 February 2023 of A Stranger in their Midst, the memoir of Mr Justice Charles Archibong (rtd) at The Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos with Chief Anthony Ani, a former Minister of Finance, serving as...
Charles E. Archibong (2021), A Stranger in Their Midst: a memoir. Lagos: Narrative Landscape Press. 228 pages. ISBN: 978-978-58419-7-2 Reviewed by Chido B. Nwakanma, School of Media and Communication, Pan Atlantic University A good publisher and his editor should invite Charles Archibong to serve on their editorial board as...
The Police and DSS on Thursday held an emergency meeting with the Branch Controller CBN and all Commercial Bank Managers in Kebbi over shortage of the redesigned naira notes in the state. The meeting was to find ways to address the problem to avoid breakdown of law and order....
2023 census will hold in Sambisa forest, says NPC chairman
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not accept the nomination of university lecturers who are card carrying members or had participated in partisan politics or convicted of electoral malpractice as Returning and State Collation Officers in the forthcoming polls. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has called on on security agents to appreciate and prioritise the safety and protection of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in order to give them confidence and encouragement to come out en mass to exercise...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said that the commission’s worst challenge remained the desperation and do-or-die attitude of politicians. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State stated this at the enlarged Stakeholders’ Forum of the commission at its headquarters in Lagos. Agbaje urged...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it has seek the permission of chancellors of Nigerian universities for the deployment of a specified number and category of academic staff for the 2023 general election. Speaking on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting with the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resolved to improve its collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in areas of capacity building and advocacy to check tax fraud. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement quoted the Commission’s Chairman,...
…As former Senate President Lauds Ortom for Och’Idoma’s Palace. By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and his wife, Mrs. Eunice Ortom, Governor Nyesom Wike have been conferred with honorific chieftaincy titles by the Idoma Area Traditional Council. The Och’Idoma, His Royal Majesty, John Elaigwu Odogbo...
The Federal Government says the country has only vaccinated 68 per cent of it’s COVID-19 eligible population. The government in 2021, said it had invested much and was ready to vaccinate 70 per cent of its population before the end of 2022. But as of Feb. 7, the country...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Dr Emeka Offor as he marks his 64th birthday, describing him as a dynamic personality and a global figure in humanitarian affairs. In a congratulatory message issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday in Abuja, Buhari commended...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday in Abuja frowned at the appointment of former Inspectors-General of Police as chairmen of the Police Service Commission (PSC). President Muhammadu Buhari appointed former Inspector-General of Police, Mr Musiliu Smith as chairman of the PSC in 2018. He resigned in 2022 and retired...