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Naira drops to N956/$ as dollar supply falls by 46%
The naira fell, on Thursday, to N956/$ on the official Investor and Exporter forex window as dollar supply declined by 46.77 per cent. This is a 13.78 per cent decline from the N840.53/$ the naira closed trading on Wednesday according to data from the FMDQ Securities Exchange. Also, the turnover of dollars traded in the…
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Just In: Appeal Court reverses sack of Nasarawa Gov Sule
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the October 2 judgment of the Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sacking Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC). A three-member panel of the court held that the tribunal was wrong to have declined to determine the legal issues identified in the objection raised…
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Fresh Naira Scarcity Hits Abuja, Lagos, Edo, Kano, Others
Punch Newspaper Despite recent assurances by the Central Bank of Nigeria that there is enough naira in circulation, reports of scarcity have emerged across the country. A survey by The PUNCH, on Wednesday, confirmed scarcity in some parts of Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Kwara, Gombe, Edo, Sokoto, and Ekiti States. Many bank customers and Point of…
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Appeal Court Clears Air On Kano Judgement
The Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari, has cleared air on the controversies surrounding the judgement delivered by the court on the Kano Governorship Election dispute. In a reaction, Bangari said that what happened in the judgement body was a typo error that did not in anyway invalidate or change the findings…
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Crucial Aspect of Mohbad’s Autopsy Being Conducted in America – Coroner
The Lagos Coroner Court sitting at Ita-Elewa, Ikorodu on Wednesday, November 22, said that the most crucial aspect of an autopsy to determine the cause of death of late music star, Ilerioluwa (Promise) Aloba, is being conducted in the United States of America (USA). The state counsel, O. Akinde told the Coroner Magistrate, Adetayo Shotobi,…
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Mohbad’s Mum Raises Fresh Alarm Over Late Singer’s Burial
Mother of the late singer, MohBad, Abosede Aloba, has appealed to Nigerians to take a stand in ensuring that her late son is properly buried. Mohbad died under mysterious circumstances on September 12. He was buried the following day. On September 21, the body of the 27-year-old music star was exhumed by the police for…
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Senate reshuffles leadership of standing committees (FULL LIST)
The senate has reshuffled the leadership of some of its 28 standing committees. The rearrangement was announced by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. While some senators were appointed to chair some of the committees, others were appointed as vice-chairpersons. The senate’s 72 standing committees were initially…
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Police Give Update on Mohbad’s Autopsy
Punch Newspaper The Lagos State Police Command has said the autopsy report of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, conducted two months ago has not been given to them. Today, Tuesday, November 21, 2023, makes it two months since the corpse of the late Mohbad was exhumed and an autopsy commenced to unravel the…
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COEASU kicks against IPPIS implementation in tertiary institutions
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has asked the federal government to shelve the idea of a centralised payroll management system for public tertiary institutions. Smart Olugbeko, president of the union, said this while reacting to President Bola Tinubu’s recent suspension of the policy mandating public tertiary institutions to remit 40 percent of…
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How Sacked Kano Governor Was Nailed at Appeal Court – Ganduje
The Nation Newspaper The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has revealed the joker used by the party to nail the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) at the Appeal Court last Friday. Ganduje said that the NNPP’s desperation to have a governor in Kano State was its greatest undoing…
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