Category: News
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FULL LIST: 43 Items CBN lifts Forex restrictions on
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has finally lifted the foreign exchange restrictions it placed importers of 43 items eight years ago. Here are the 43 items : RiceCementMargarinePalm kernelPalm oil productsVegetable oilsMeat and processed meat productsVegetables and processed vegetable productsPoultry and processed poultry productsTinned fish in sauce (Geisha)/sardineCold rolled steel sheetsGalvanized steel sheetsRoofing sheetsWheelbarrowsHead pansMetal…
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Peter Obi’s Name On UNN Certificate Different From Name on NYSC Certificate – Labour Party’s Chieftain Alleges
Abayomi Arabambi, the National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party, LP, has alleged a discrepancy in the certificates of the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi. Arabambi made this allegation while speaking in an interview on AIT on Thursday. The factional Labour Party’s National Publicity Secretary’s comment comes after…
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How Two Female Kwara Poly Students Killed Hotel Owner
Two female students of Kwara State Polytechnic, Joseph Joy Adanma and Vandora Oreoluwa Favour, have disclosed how they killed a nightclub owner, Adeniyi Ojo, in a hotel. Speaking when the police paraded them at Force Headquarters in Abuja, on Wednesday, Adanma revealed that they deceived the man to allow them tie him ahead of the…
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Labour Party Factional Chairman, Apapa Poses 2 Questions at Those Who Believe President Tinubu Bribed Him
The factional national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa in a recent interview shed light on the crisis within the party. Apapa in the interview with BBC Yoruba distanced himself from the claim that he is working for President Bola Tinubu. According to Apapa, he has never received any money from Tinubu as…
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Why Private Varsities Must Not Benefit From TETFund Projects – ASUU President, Osodeke
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ((ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has kicked against the plan by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to include private universities as beneficiaries of its projects. Prof Osodeke stated this at a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions. Osodeke said such…
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Bola Tinubu diploma: No evidence Nigeria’s president forged college record – BBC Report
BBC Report There is no evidence that the diploma Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu submitted to the country’s electoral commission was forged, the BBC’s Global Disinformation Team has found. Allegations that President Tinubu’s certificates were faked went viral on social media following the release by Chicago State University (CSU) of his academic records last week.…
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Israel’s war with Hamas: What we know
Vanguard News This is what we know about the conflict so far: How the assault unfoldedHundreds of Hamas militants attacked Israel from around 6:30 am (0330 GMT) on Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, in an assault that came 50 years after the outbreak of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The Gaza-based Islamists fired thousands…
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Why my SSCE certificate bears Sadiq Abubakar – Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday explained the discrepancies in his Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) certificate. Atiku made the clarification through Dele Momodu, in a post on his X handle. The Nation reported that a group had given Atiku and Peter Obi bi a seven-day ultimatum to release their academic records or face…
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Court Disqualifies APC Candidate Sylva From Bayelsa Gov Election
Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Mr Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Sylva, having been sworn in twice and served five years as governor of the state, would breach the 1999 constitution as amended if…
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NANS Senate Presidency: Stakeholders React To Purported Endorsement of Seyi Tinubu’s Preferred Aspirant
Stakeholders in the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, have reacted to the purported endorsement of one of the aspirants eyeing the post of senate presidency in the forthcoming NANS election. The stakeholders in a joint release made available to Vreporters and signed by Comrade Awoyinfa Opeoluwa, FUTA; Comrade Olalere Adetunji Benedict, Federal Cooperative College,…