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Over 100 tonnes of bad Naira notes are generated as wastes and destroyed weekly, the Central Bank of Nigeria has said. The apex bank said ...
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APC gives Ikpeazu 3 months ultimatum over council polls
The All Progressive Congress, APC, Abia state chapter, has handed a three months ultimatum to Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu to conduct local council elections in the ...
Read More »Taraba electoral Commission fixes May 16 for LG polls
Bulkachuwa commissions 19th Court of Appeal in Kano
The President of Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on Monday commissioned the 19th division of Court of Appeal in Kano. The president noted that ...
Read More »Leaders close to Buhari not telling him truth about insecurity – Shehu Sani
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that some leaders in the country are hiding ...
Read More »Deregister more political parties, APC tells INEC
All Progressives Congress has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to de-register more political parties to sanitise Nigeria’s electoral system. The Chairman of Ebonyi Chapter ...
Read More »High returns on investments guaranteed, Buhari tells foreign oil firms
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, assured foreign oil companies of high returns on their investments in Nigeria. Buhari gave the assurance at the Nigeria International ...
Read More »FG needs $500m loan to enable NTA compete with CNN – Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has pledged to turn around the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to enable it compete with the likes of ...
Read More »BREAKING: Adoke rejects EFCC custody, prefers Kuje prison
A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), on Monday, expressed his preference to be remanded in the Kuje Correctional ...
Read More »NAF jets bombard Sambisa forest, kill Boko Haram leaders
Key Boko Haram leaders have been killed as Nigerian Air Force jets (NAF) bombarded Alafa Yagayaga on the fringes of the Sambisa forest in Borno ...
Read More »N150bn alleged fraud probe: EFCC seizes ex-governor’s, sons’ passports
AS part of its investigation into the probe of alleged N150 billion fraud, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the travel documents ...
Read More »BREAKING: Plateau Senator Longjan dies in Turkish hospital
Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial District, Senator Ignatius Longjan is dead. Reports said Longjan, who was also a former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, allegedly ...
Read More »Presidency: Northern Elders’ Forum lacks credible membership
The presidency and the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) exchanged brickbats yesterday over the stewardship of President Muhammadu Buhari. NEF spokesman, Professor Ango Abdullahi, fired the ...
Read More »Joblessness to trigger next economic recession – TheCitizen
The fears earlier expressed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, that Nigeria risks relapsing into another economic recession are not yet over. He gave the hint that this time it wiuld be unemployment ...
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