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Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said that the two Lagos seaports located in Lekki and Tin Can Island were operating “far beyond their installed capacities.” “What it simply means is that if they were built to handle 500,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), for instance, probably they are now handling about 700, 000 …

REGISTERED VOTERS: 2,525,471 ========================== Soludo votes 5:22p.m.: I arrived here (002, Ward, Ofiyi Square, Isuofia, Aguata LGA) 11:30a.m., and voted 5:10p.m. — Soludo ================================= REC Dr. Orji addresses newsmen 5p.m.: ‘Voting continues until the last person on the queue votes’ ======================================= INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji, reviews voting time “In cases of sustained malfunction of the BVAS, the …

I don’t have that report, CP says Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Nwachukwu Orji has decried the disruption of process in the governorship election in some local government areas of the state where he claimed election materials were “snatched and destroyed by community members” for undisclosed reason. Mr. Orji divulged the information during a brief with Channels TV on …

People’s Republic of China Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun says his country is ready to support Nigeria in developing its Traditional-Medicine (Trado-Medicine) sector to boost the nation’s economy. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Cui made this known on Thursday in Abuja during a Seminar and lecture on “Developing Nigerian-Chinese Traditional Medicine,” organized by the Nigerian Youth Congress (NYC) …

Today, residents of Anambra State will go to the polls to elect a governor in what promises to be a very competitive election. The November 6 governorship election is the first state-wide election to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2021. Security in the state has deteriorated over the past few months, threatening the election in …

Virtually all the streets in Awka, Anambra state capital, were on Friday, in lack of people as residents closed shops, including corporate activities in compliance to the one-week sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Business hubs such as Aroma and Unizik junctions were with the scanty presence of people from morning to evening. Journalists and other election …

The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will upload election results from the 5,634 polling units to its result-viewing portal in today’s governorship poll in Anambra State. From left:Ifeanyi Ubah, Chukwuma Soludo, Valentine Ozigbo and Andy Uba It however said collation of results would be done manually as obtained in previous elections and not with the uploaded results. The commission …

No fewer than 2.5 million registered voters are expected to decide the fate of the eighteen candidates whose names appear on the ballot paper, although many of the candidates could be classified as mere pretenders.ADVERTISING The greatest fear in the election is voter apathy which may be heightened by the threats of the unknown gunmen and the presence of military …

…Crashes expenditure, counterfeiting The Central Bank of Nigeria spent the sum of N58.618 billion to print 2.518 billion Naira notes, valued at  1. 063 trillion in, 2020. This was contained in the bank’s 2020 Currency Report posted on its website. It indicated a decrease in the bank’s expenditure on currency printing, which stood at N75. 523 billion, in 2019 and …

MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa Plc have received approval in principle to operate a payment service bank (PSB) in the country. The two leading telcos disclosed in regulatory filings on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) on Friday. PSB operators provide financial services through digital means to low-income earners and people that do not use banks or banking institutions for transactions. …