Residents wait to collect new naira notes at a bank in Alausa, Lagos…yesterday. Photo: Ayodele Adeniran • Old banknotes withdrawal extended to February 17, faces legal test • Reps rejects CBN’s extension, insists on Emefiele’s arrest if he fails to show up • Currency swap deadline puts N100tr national output at risk, says CPPE • […]
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The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has revealed how he deals with people who betray him. This is as he disclosed that disappointment is an energiser for him and he works harder whenever people disappoint him. He stated this on Sunday at a town hall meeting in Benin City, the Edo State capital […]
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Dada (middle) attending to a patient By Adeseye Aluko A man’s body consists of so many systems. There is the blood network. There are the lungs. There is the nervous system. There is the brain. But these systems are neither understood nor appreciated by the generality of men. The field of medicine is one of […]
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Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Sunday, said Nigerians should hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible and accountable if terrorist attacks mar the 2023 general elections. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, condemned the failure of the President to use performance indexes to assess his appointees in […]
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Leah Sharibu By Martins Oloja Doubtless, it is a time to deconstruct the electoral justice system that has firmly entrenched the judiciary as the author and finisher of our elected leaders in the executive arms of government because of abysmal failure of internal democracy here. It should be a time to write on the current […]
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The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on new naira re-design and naira swap policy has rejected the ten days extension granted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the exchange of old naira notes. Its chairman and leader of the House, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, in a statement, insisted that the CBN must comply […]
Continue ReadingBy Ayodele Eagbohun After rain comes sunshine, after darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow; behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of Prosperity. So, tearing the mask! – Obafemi Awolowo aka Awo ,the […]
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The All Progressives Congress campaign council (APC PCC) has applauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the extension of the naira swap deadline. Bayo Onanuga Director, Media and Publicity of the Council commended the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele for listening to the voice of well-meaning Nigerians on the exigency of extending the deadline […]
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, adjourned the hearing on the suit filed by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking a referendum to determine the fate of Biafra and other self-determination agitations to March 30, 2023. It would be recalled that the CNG, in June 2021, dragged the National Assembly and […]
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Chief executives usually have an interest in who succeeds them. It appears to be the best way to protect their policies, reputation and perhaps even their lives and freedom after office. Many would do all they can to prevent a political enemy or an ideological opponent from taking over power from them. In the Fourth […]
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