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When Nigerians Should Expect Unification of Exchange Rates – Tinubu’s Loyalist Hints
The unification of multiple exchange rates will be completed within quarters, Wale Edun, a member of the defunct Presidential Transition Council (PTC), hinted yesterday. Edun, a Loyalist of the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was also former Finance commissioner in Lagos State , spoke with Bloomberg. He said unification of the various exchange rates…
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Student Loan Bill: Tinubu to establish education bank
Vanguard News The Student Loan Bill, which has just been signed into law by President Bola Tinubu is expected to see the establishment of an education bank. President Tinubu signed the bill on Monday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that, in November 2022, the bill, which seeks to provide interest-free loans to indigent Nigerian…
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Opinion: Straightening the K-leg of June 12, thirty years later by Owei Lakemfa
Today is exactly 30 years after the June 12, 1993 presidential election which were annulled by the Ibrahim Babangida military regime. On June 18, six days after the election, my media colleague and brother, Kayode Komolafe, came to my house with a copy of the full election results being uploaded by the electoral commission. Businessman…
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June 12th Annulment: Shocking Revelation Nigerians Must Know
Vanguard News Conspiracy they wrote! National security chiefs, politicians and officials of the Ministry of Justice as well as key officials of the Ibrahim Babangida administration were involved. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was President and Commander-in-Chief under whose watch this act against Nigerians was committed. The foundation for the annulment of the June 12 presidential…
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Democracy Day: Full Text of President Tinubu’s Speech
TEXT OF DEMOCRACY DAY NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED Tinubu, GCFR ON JUNE 12, 2023 Fellow Nigerians,
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Democracy Day: 15 Things Tinubu Has Done Since Moving Into Aso Rock
Channels TV President Bola Tinubu was not handed Nigeria at its best socio-economic state, and he knows this fact; perhaps, this has informed some of the steps he has taken within the last 13 days since he officially took the reins. Uneasy they say lies the head that wears the crown, and indeed the first…
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Tinubu Advisory Council Proposes Oil Sector Reform, Sets Target For First 100 Days in Office
The Cable The policy advisory council of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recommended that the federal government becomes a minority shareholder in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited before May 2027. The report, dated May 2023, was submitted by the energy and natural resources subcommittees of the council. It forecasted that the federal government…
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SERAP Drags Tinubu To Court
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to probe the allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” In a statement on Sunday, SERAP…
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DSS Seeks Order to Extend Emefiele’s Detention, Lines up Interrogators
Punch Newspaper The Department of State Services is likely to approach the court on Tuesday to obtain an order to keep the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in its custody for as long as his interrogation will last. A source in the DSS confided in one of our correspondents that…
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Just in: Kyari not sacked as NNPCL boss, say sources
Vanguard News Contrary to reports making the rounds, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari has not been removed from office. The aforesaid report speculating Kyari’s removal by President Bola Tinubu was published in certain media quarters (not Vanguard) on Saturday. However, in a telephone interview with Vanguard, authoritative…
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