• CBN has no reason not to obey Supreme Court on naira redesign policy • CBN releases cash to banks as rationing intensifies • Obey Supreme Court judgment, NBA urges FG, CBN • Middle Belt Forum, Kogi urge action on S’Court ruling Ten days after Supreme Court ruling directing continued use of old N500 and […]
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday reserved judgement on the Osun State governorship appeal filed by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The appeal filed by Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party is against a judgment of the tribunal which invalidated his election as governor of Osun State. The three-member panel of justices led by […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State on Monday said that it would not lose sleep over serial decampees who it described as political prostitutes. In a statement by its State spokesman, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, the party said that it was not disturbed by the exit of Mr Banji Okunomo and Mr Solomon […]
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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, Peter Obi, has said that he is challenging the process leading to the declaration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the election and not the declaration itself. Obi said this during […]
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By Eze Onyekpere Every progressive society is governed by known laws and rules. Society develops through the rule of law and its due process and the eradication of arbitrary and autocratic decision-making. The recent redesign of the national currency, the naira, the emerging policy and legal issues, the Supreme Court decision and the hardship that […]
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The rejection of old notes by transport operators, fuel stations, traders, and other businesses continued over the weekend, leaving many bank customers, workers and commuters stranded in various parts of the country. Several people found very difficult to go to their workplaces and business places as the scarcity of the new naira notes bites harder […]
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Turkish President Recep Erdogan, on Sunday, said the number of people killed by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey’s SouthEast has reached 48,000, with over 115,000 people injured. “The death toll has reached 48,000 and the number of injured has exceeded 115,000,” Erdogan said in a televised address to the nation from the Samandag district of […]
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State governments, which sued the Federal Government on the naira redesign policy, have given the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, till Tuesday to comply with the order of the Supreme Court on the currency. The state governments threatened to file […]
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The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, on Sunday, reiterated that its supporters won’t back down on their planned nationwide demonstration unless the Independent National Electoral Commission grants LP’s lawyers access to materials from the contentious February 25 presidential election. Controversies had trailed the outcome of the presidential election where presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, […]
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The ongoing reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used during the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February will end today Monday, it has been learnt. The Independent National Electoral Commission had postponed the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 to March 18 in order […]
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