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...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on the Federal Government to probe a report that the presidential spokesperson for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Dino Melaye and others ‘smuggled out’ N50 billion new notes from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). MURIC’s...
A Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has urged Nigerians to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu in the Feb. 25 presidential election. Buratai, who was the immediate past Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Benin, made the...
The Concerned Stakeholders Forum All Progressives Congress (APC)has alleged that some government appointees are sabotaging the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Dominic Alancha Convener of the forum said this at a news conference on Saturday in Abuja, Alancha supported the claim by Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State,...
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...
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...
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...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Worried by the difficulty experienced by Nigerians in getting the new naira notes, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN on Friday met with some players in the FinTech space, exploring possible ways of mitigating the hardship. VP Osinbajo urged regulators and the banks to deploy...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday urged citizens to give him a seven-day window to resolve the currency crunch that has emanated from the implementation of the Central Bank policy to change high value Naira notes with newly designed ones. The President said this while...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has urged lawmakers and Nigerians to show understanding, adding that the apex bank was out to combat the incidence of insecurity in the country. Emefele made the call in Abuja on Tuesday before the House of Representatives’ fact finding...
The Federal High Court Abuja on Tuesday struck out a suit seeking to compel INEC to allow the use of Temporary Voter Cards or Voter Identification Number at the 2023 general elections. The Incorporated Trustees of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had dragged INEC...
Some Lagos residents have expressed their frustration and anger as they spend hours on long queues without being able to withdraw cash via Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). A NAN correspondent who monitored the development at some banks around Airport Road, Ikotun, Surulere, Ejigbo and Oshodi-Isolo axis, reported that people...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has urged Nigerians to refrain from making unguarded and inflammatory statements concerning security issues in the country. Governor Ortom spoke Monday, January 30th, 2023 at the Government House, Lafia during a condolence visit to the Nasarawa State Governor,...
Mixed reactions have trailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) extension of the deadline for collection of old naira notes by 10 days. Some Nigerians who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos, commended the CBN for the extension, while others...
Many Nigerians say the current hike in the prices of imported vehicles popularly known as “Tokunbo” have affected their desire to own cars. They said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. They attributed the increase in Customs duties on imported...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Coalition of Civil Society Groups, (CCSG) on Sunday said that the new redesigned naira notes were symbols of a new Nigeria. The assertion was made in the popular Watt Market Calabar, by Mrs Lilian Cosmas, Head CCSG, South-South Zone. Mrs. Cosmas, who called...
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has charged Nigerians to use the extension of deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to collect their cards. The organisation gave the charge in a statement by its Spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for a “slight extension” of the January 31 deadline old naira notes. Alhaji Atiku made the call in a video posted on Twitter on...
Residents and motorists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environ have continued to lament the hardship being experienced as scarcity of Premuim Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol worsened. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the filling stations on Friday reports that...