The Federal Government at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC Meeting yesterday said Nigeria Air will soon start flying, having got the aircraft ready and painted in its colours even as it approves the sum of N721,266,733.64 for the maintenance and technical support at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of the deadline for the swapping of old to new naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Emmanuel Olaitan Johnson, a Turkey-based Nigerian has recounted how he survived the earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people in Turkey on Monday. Johnson, who spoke with BBC Pidgin, explained that he sensed danger when he noticed the crack in his building wall, dressed only in pants, picked up his children, and dashed into the […]
The New Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has taken his campaign to the Republic of Niger, a West African sub-region, to strengthen ‘afro-centric foreign policy initiative’ if elected as President, a statement read. Kwankwaso pledged to make the nation’s foreign policy center on security, governance, technology transfer, and economic diplomacy. A statement issued […]
Governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states, worried over the lingering naira scarcity due to the CBN’s naira redesign policy have dragged the Federal Government before the Supreme Court seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the policy. In a motion ex-parte filed on their behalf by their lawyer, AbdulHakeem Uthman Mustapha […]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of three Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG). The Commission’s Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement stated the new DIGs were expected to fill the vacant duty posts created due to the retirements of three DIGs representing the North-central, […]
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has appealed to Nigerians to exercise patience with the federal government and Central Bank of Nigeria over the challenges associated with the circulation of the new banknote. Obi, yesterday on Arise News Channel, noted that the currency redesign was not peculiar to Nigeria and that […]
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, alongside the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, are expected to grace a book launch titled: Awoism, Integrity and Welfarism, authored by Layo Adeniyi on Monday. Adeniyi on Sunday stated that the book was to inform, educate and enlighten coming generations on […]
Calm has now been restored, hours after suspected hoodlums attacked the premises of Oyo state governor’s office at secretariat Ibadan pulling down the gates in the aftermath of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless policy. Speaking on the development the executive assistant on security to Governor Seyi Makinde retired commissioner of police Sunday Odunkoya […]
The Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has announced the suspension of his campaign activities over the unending fuel and new naira-note crisis. Governor Seyi Makinde, whose campaign trail has visited some parts of Oyo State, said this during the Flag-off of the Omi-Adio-Ido Road on Friday. The Governor said the suspension is in solidarity […]
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