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The United States of America said it was evacuating families out of Abuja due to a security threat but not diplomats, clarifying an earlier statement. A State Department statement revealed on Thursday that the US had ordered the exit of families as well as non-emergency personnel from Abuja, developing precautionary measures after an earlier alert to US citizens. The State …

To avoid what may snowball into bitter inter-agency rivalry, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Saturday reacted to claims by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, that her Ministry was kept in the dark by the apex bank in the ongoing process of redesigning the N200, N500 and N1,000 bank notes. According to the …

NNEWI– The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, yesterday accused the Attorney General and Minister of Justice Mallam Abubakar Malami, of promoting ethnic agenda against its leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Ndigbo. IPoB also accused Malami of unjustly transferring of the judges who displayed sincerity and justice on the 13th of October 2022 in the Appeal Court, judgement which discharged and …

• Marketers, NARTO deny involvement in smuggling• Stakeholders insist on subsidy removal• Sowunmi: Exchange rate, flood, others affecting fuel supply There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as the Minister of Petroleum Resources, and key members of agencies in the oil sector, especially the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, have questions to answer over subsidy scandal standing …

…Finance minister says not aware of policy …Warns CBN of Consequences Barely Forty Eight  hours after the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele announced that the apex bank would redesign the country’s currency December 15, 2022, the Federal Government Friday disagreed with him. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning , Zainab Ahmad who disowned the policy, …

The spokesman of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council in Rivers State, Dr. Leloonu Nwibubasa has said claims by Governor Nyeom Wike that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, undermined and disrespected him in the set-up of the council are misleading. He insisted that Wike and the state Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party were notified about the …

• Weeds take over ATBU structures as students get quit notices from landlords• UNILAG commercial drivers, business owners count losses• In BUK, lecture theatres under lock amid bushy environment It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon at De Gong Hotel, Shasha, Lagos. Some young boys are seated drinking and fiddling with their phones. They are monitoring the ongoing matches to know whether …

A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 elections, Charles Udeogaranya, on Monday, called on the Nigerian electorate to vote for candidates who have both the mental and physical wellbeing to do the job of a president. Udeogaranya disclosed this in a press statement issued in Abuja and made available to The PUNCH on Friday. The …

President Muhammadu has advised the nation’s security establishment and entire citizens to continue being vigilant, saying it is important to avoid panic. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s media aide, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said Buhari was reacting to security advisories issued by some embassies in Abuja, urging citizens to remain calm. According to him, the recent changes …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has been told that N4.6 billion was allegedly transferred into a Joint Trust account to finance the campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The prosecution witness and an investigating officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Shehu Shuaibu, made the submission, yesterday, while testifying before Justice Daniel Osiagor in an ongoing …