With the scarcity of new Naira notes and fuel unabated in many parts of the country, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has once again argued Nigerians to remain calm as the government and relevant agencies continue to work out solutions. Speaking in a meeting with stakeholders in Abuja on Tuesday, Tinubu said he sympathises with the people especially the downtrodden who have been made to bear the brunt of the new naira policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and irregular supply of petrol that have combined to inflict avoidable pains on the masses.…
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A group of civil society groups in Delta state, yesterday protested against series of unaccounted loans, mostly the recent N120b secured by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. The group barricaded the Agbarho axis of the ever busy East-West Road insisting the outgoing governor had an agenda to milk the state dry for his Vice Presidential ambition. Staging the peaceful protest under the aegis Coalition of Civil Society, the protesters, including students as well as Agbarho community indigenes in Okpe Council area, took to the major expressway that transversed the community at about 10am, forcing a hitch on vehicular movements on the high…
International football player, Christian Atsu, has been found alive following Monday’s earthquake in southern Turkey, Ghana Football Association revealed on Tuesday. In a tweet via the football association’s official handle, the football star is currently in a hospital receiving treatment. Moreso, they asked friends and fans of the footballer to pray for him. The tweet read, “Update: We’ve received some positive news that Christian Atsu has been successfully rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building and is receiving treatment. Let’s continue to pray for Christian.” Also Read: Turkey Earthquake: Nigerian students undergoing Post-trauma analysis Update: We’ve received some positive…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the Nigerian Postal Service raked in N3.63 billion in 2021. The collection dipped by 22.79 percent compared to the revenue it earned in 2020, according to the document titled: ” Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt Q3 2022.” Also Read: Naira Redesign, Fuel Scarcity could escalate tension ahead of polls – World Bank The data said in 2021, it was lower than the revenue in 2020 by 22.79%.” The NBS said EMS/Speed Post generated the highest income with N1.27billion, representing 35.14% of the total revenue generated for the year. It added this was…
No fewer than 10 persons were feared killed on Monday in a renewed communal crisis between Anaku and Omor communities in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State. The reason for the current crisis was yet to be ascertained at press time but sources said there have been lingering crisis between the two communities in the recent past. Also Read: Imo lawyers, Judges boycott Courts over Magistrate’s Murder When contacted, the State Police Spokesperson, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said there has been the heavy deployment of a joint task force team which comprises Police and military around the communities. “I don’t…
The Zamfara sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it will screen vehicles for election duties to ensure safe and timely delivery of election materials across the state. The Sector Commander, Iro Danladi, made this known in an interview in Gusau on Monday. He said that safe and timely delivery of election materials was imperative to the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in the country. “We will make sure no vehicle with any mechanical problem is engaged to carry either election materials or personnel. “And all the drivers will be equally tested to prove their…
The National Association of Nigerian Students in Turkey has said that Nigerian students who were traumatised as a result of the Monday 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the country have been taken in by Turkish officials for post-trauma analysis. The earthquake, which has so far claimed thousands of lives, brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and plied more devastation on millions of Syrians displaced by years of war. The president of NANS Turkish zone, Yakubu Sabo, who spoke with our correspondent on Tuesday, said some Nigerian students were traumatised and were undergoing post-trauma analysis, adding that they would…
BY REUBEN ABATI Yesterday morning, while on the flagship show of Arise News – The Morning Show- I took special notice during the newspaper review with Emmanuel Efeni and the segment titled “What’s Trending” with Ojy Okpe, of the editorial by the ThisDay newspaper of the day titled: “Interim Government: Perish The Thought”. I pointed out that having been Chairman of the Editorial Board of a major Nigerian newspaper for 11 years, before moving on to other engagements in the public sphere, I am aware that when a newspaper publishes its editorial on the front page, as ThisDay did…
Passengers on board a Nigerian Air Force jet were apprehensive as the aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) crash-landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. NAF confirmed that the maritime patrol aircraft, a Cessna Citation CJ3, on a routine flight, lost its tyres on touch and go flight in Ilorin and had to carry out a controlled belly land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Reacting, NAF Spokesman, Air Commodore Wap Maigida explained that “no fatalities or injuries to any crew member and persons on the ground,” were recorded. Also Read: One Killed as Gunmen bomb INEC…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, barred the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, from the party Justice James Omotosho made the order following an ex-parte motion filed by the Governor against the entire hierarchy of the PDP. Respondents in the motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023, dated and filed on February 2, are the PDP, its National Working Committee, National Executive Committee, National Chairman of the party Dr Iyorchia Ayu; PDP National Secretary Senator Samuel Anyanwu and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Also Read: BREAKING: Court stops CBN, Buhari from…
Lawyers and judges in Imo State, under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), began a three-day boycott of judicial activities to express their outrage over the murder of Nnaemeka Ugboma, the Presiding Magistrate of Ejemekwuru Customary Court, Oguta Council of Imo State. The magistrate was shot dead while the court was in session, last Thursday by gunmen. A memo signed by the Publicity Secretary of NBA, Owerri branch, Daniel Odiba, and sent to members, reads in part: “This is to remind you that the boycott of courts in Imo State shall commence today, Monday, February 6, 2023 and…
Justice Eleoje Enenche of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on Monday restrained the Federal Government and 27 listed commercial banks from suspending, stopping, extending or interfering with the currency redesignation terminal date of February 10 or issue any directive contrary to the date. Also restrained were the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Central Bank of Nigeria and the Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele. Also Read: BREAKING: Kogi, Kaduna Zamfara Govts Sue FG over New Naira Scarcity In a motion exparte filed by five of the 18 political parties,…