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Some experts express mixed feelings about the impact of the CBN policy on the state of food security in the country. Last Thursday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that it had lifted the restriction on the 43 items prohibited, in 2015, from accessing foreign exchange (FX) from the official foreign exchange windows. “Importers of all the 43 items previously restricted by the …

As the Supreme Court gets set to hear appeals seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that nothing ought to stop the apex court from accepting his fresh evidence. Atiku stated this in a reply on the point of law …

JERUSALEM — Deadly violence has been surging in the West Bank as the Israeli military pursues Palestinian militants in the aftermath of the Hamas attack from Gaza, with at least 90 Palestinians killed in the Israeli-occupied territory in the past two weeks, mainly in clashes with Israeli troops. The violence threatens to open another front in the 2-week-old war, and puts pressure …

The Senate said the ambiguity evident in Section 64 of the Electoral Act should be removed to allow for the use of technology in transmitting election results. The Senate has proposed that from 2027, all election results and results sheets used at collation centres should be electronically transmitted to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja …

Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Sunday, arrived in the United States for the African Development Bank’s World Food Prize. Shettima will participate in the AfDB World Food Prize-facilitated Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue which will commence on October 24 in Iowa. This was contained in a statement by the Spokesman to the President on Media and Communications (Office of …

Edo State is abuzz with anticipation as camp opens tomorrow, October 22, 2023, for the third edition of the annual Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament (BOWFT) scheduled to hold in Benin City, the Edo State capital, between Monday, 23rd of October and Wednesday 1st of November, 2023. The preseason football competition will see 13 prominent teams from the Nigerian Women’s …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Mourners scampered to safety when a trigger-happy vigilante member accidentally shot to death at a funeral in Benin City, his colleague who recently bought a flight ticket to travel to the United Kingdom after he successfully secured a five-year UK work Visa. The killing brings to four the number of Edo State Security Network (ESSN) shot to …

Africa can be the first green industrial hub of the world because of its vast potential of renewable energy, the youngest and fastest growing workforce, and an abundance of critical minerals, Nigeria’s former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said. Osinbajo (SAN), who was a Special Guest and speaker at the 10th anniversary of the Financial Times (FT) Africa Summit …

The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the government was also taking out dead beneficiaries from the register and would disqualify those without National Identification Numbers and Bank Verification Numbers. It …

Stella Maris, wife of Nollywood actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, has accused the Actors Guild of Nigeria of abandoning her husband during his health crisis. The Guild released a statement on Friday, responding to netizens who called on the association to come to the aid of its ailing member. Nollywood actor, Mr. John Okafor, aka Mr Ibu …