Category: News
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Scores of APC, Labour Parties’ Supporters Collapse Structures For Atiku
With less than 30 hours to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, no fewer than 5,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP) have collapsed their structures into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The decampees, whose structures had all along worked for the APC and LP across the country, changed…
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How Troops Arrest Masterminds of Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack, Recover $5,000
Troops of Nigerian military attached to Operation Whirl Punch have apprehended one of the masterminds of the Abuja-Kaduna Train attack of March 28, 2022. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, who revealed this at Defence Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, also disclosed that the sum of $5,000 as well as other currency were…
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Election: Peter Obi Bounds To Fail – Labour Party’s Chairmen Claim
Less than twenty four hours to the presidential election, slated February 25, the North-East Chairmen of the Labour Party, LP, say as a result of alleged undemocratic internal activities of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the party is bound to fail during the poll. This they said was coming on the heels of Obi’s…
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PVC Collection: INEC Replies Tinubu
Vanguard News Ahead of this weekend’s general election, a total of 87,209,007 Permanent Voter Cards PVCs have been collected by Nigerians, according to the latest data released by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. The data which was collated as of 5th February 2023 shows that uncollected PVCs stood at 6,259,229. Nigeria has a registered…
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Security Operatives Arrest Finland-based Pro-Biafra Agitator, Simon Ekpa
Finland based pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa has been arrested. Ekpa was arrested by the police in his residence in the Lahti area of the country, a Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat reported Thursday. The separatist has repeatedly declared that there will be no elections in the South-East region of the country and insisted on the observance…
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2023 Election: Banks React To Purported Plan To Disrupt Financial Transactions
Financial institutions under the aegis of the Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB), have denied purported plans to disrupts financial transactions for the general elections slated for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Following the polls, there have been some trending messages suggesting that commercial banks will close its services. But in a statement on…
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Old Naira Notes: Supreme Court Send Message To State Willing To Challenge FG’s Directive
Vanguard News The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, shut its door to more states seeking to be joined as interested parties in the suit challenging the decision of the Federal Government to ban the use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as valid legal tenders. A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court,…
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Naira Scarcity: Supreme Court Consolidates Suits By 10 States
Channels TV The Supreme Court on Wednesday consolidated the suits instituted by the 10 state governments against the Federal Government challenging the implementation of the naira redesign. At the last hearing on February 15, seven states joined the three initial states as co-plaintiffs, while Edo and Bayelsa states joined the Federal Government as co-defendants. Expectations…
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Naira Scarcity: Fed Govt, states close to settlement
The Nation Newspaper THE search for an out-of-court resolution of the suit instituted against the Federal Government by Governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna); Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) and Yahaya Bello (Kogi) over the implementation of naira policy continued yesterday. For the past 48 hours, both parties have been locked in talks with the Federal Government asking the…
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Naira Scarcity: LASU Staff Dies in Bank Queue
Punch Newspaper An employee of the Lagos State University, Ojo, Mr. Johnson Ademola, died Monday afternoon in a bank queue in the institution while trying to withdraw cash. Reports of Ademola’s demise had emerged online as some news outlets (not PUNCH) said the deceased was one of the deputy bursars of the institution. It was…