By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Candidate, Mr Dumebi Kachikwu, says the insufficient circulation of the new Naira notes posed great threats to the country’s peace. Mr. Kachikwu in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said it was disheartening to see Nigerians endure long...
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The PDP Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has told the Federal Government not to allow Nigerians to be made scapegoats “in the ongoing battle of titans over the redesign of the naira’’. Atiku made the appeal in a statement by his media aides in Abuja on Tuesday. He said...
Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states have instituted a suit against the Federal Government seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the Naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a motion ex-parte filed before the Supreme Court, the three states are praying the...
Some concerned Nigerians on Monday took to major roads in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, protesting against the lingering scarcity of fuel and new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters, who had earlier assembled at the main gate of the University of Ibadan, later...
The management of Techno Oil Ltd. has directed its outlets nationwide to make fuel sales to motorists round the clock, to mitigate the hardships facing Nigerians currently. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr Tony Onyeama, made the announcement on Monday in Lagos while speaking on the efforts...
Prof. Micheal Ezenwa, a Clinical Psychologist at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has advised Nigerians to see the current situation in Nigeria as a transition period that will be over in no distant time. Ezenwa is the immediate past president of Nigerian Psychological Association and Country Coordinator, International Consortium...
Director-General, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Mr Sola Obadimu says the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should have introduced N5,000 note rather than redesigning old notes. Mr. Obadimu, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja b- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to protect Nigerians by going after political leaders and saboteurs mopping up the new Naira notes. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement issued on Sunday in...
Some traders in Sango-Ota, Ogun, on Monday, appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make concerted efforts to address the lingering cash crunch in Deposit Money banks to prevent total collapse of economic activities. They expressed their views in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria...
Adams Oshiomhole has accused the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of deceiving President Muhammadu Buhari over the redesign of the naira notes. President Buhari last year approved the redesign of the N1,000, N500, and N200 notes. The move, has, however, created hardship among Nigerians who battle to lay hands...
Mr Femi Gbajabiamila gives a speech during a plenary at the House of Representatives chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila says the lawmakers may reconvene if the hardship occasioned by the naira swap continues. While the lawmakers are on...
Many FCT residents have continued to face difficulty in accessing the newly redesigned Naira notes, attributing the challenge to bank officials, who they say allegedly hoard and selling the legal tender. The stakeholders urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to impose heavy sections on Deposit Money Banks (DMBs)...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr Peter Obi has appealed to banks to expedite action to reduce the pains and discomfort small depositors and the unbanked are currently going through. In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council’s media team,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – As the scarcity of Naira currency crisis hit harder, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to review its new notes apportioned ratio policy and also to collaborate with law enforcement agencies in monitoring...
Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe has directed the state-owned Yobe Microfinance Bank to open branches in all the 17 Local Government Areas of the State. In a statement by Buni’s Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed in Damaturu on Saturday, the directive was part of measures...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has met with officials of commercial banks in Gombe as a measure against violation of its guidelines. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the meeting in Gombe on Saturday, Aliyu Ashiru, Deputy Director, Financial Markets...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned cabals reportedly trying to scuttle the February 25 and March 11 general elections to desist from the plot, saying no to any form of ‘interim government’. “Let nobody try to scuttle this election,” the governor warned on Saturday during a campaign in...
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,...
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...
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...