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…NANS pledges 20million votes for Atiku Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged youths in the state not to mortgage their future by selling their votes in the forthcoming general election. Rather, he implored them to come out en masse to vote for only credible and competent leaders who have the experience and capacity to save Nigeria from its …

Edo State Governor, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has extended the free bus service by all Edo City Transport Service (ECTS) buses till Friday, February 24, 2023. The extension became necessary because the cash crunch experienced by the people in the state has remained unabated, according to a statement released today by Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser to the Governor on …

Benin City, Nigeria – Nigerians from all walks of life have been urged to use their voter’s card as a revolutionary tool on February 25, 2023. This call was made by the Chairman, Media & Publicity Committee of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) Edo State, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, in a press statement he released on Monday. The campaign …

ISWAP • SERAP sues Buhari over ‘unlawful’ ban of old N500, N1,000 notes President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to redesign the naira, as part of efforts to tame terrorism in Nigeria, is unlikely to yield desired results, says an investigative report released by public policy research group, Nextier. The report advised that more pertinent is government’s political will to prosecute already …

He said the campaign was borne out of the desire to change the narrative, by enlightening residents of the state, especially the youths, on the gains of desisting from electoral malpractices. He advised youths not to be misled into electoral thuggery and vote buying as a result of the current cash crunch experienced across the country, but to show steadfastness …

• Says power shift undemocratic Less than a week to the presidential election, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has advised electorate not to vote any candidate anointed by a predecessor. In the same vein, the ACF frowned at voting for a governorship candidate handpicked by a state governor as a successor. In a statement, yesterday, Secretary General of the Forum, …

“But there’s a second thing that we seem to be solving for which has now taken ascendancy over the monetary policy. We are using the central bank to solve the problem of criminality in our politics.” A former Vice President of the World Bank, Oby Ezekwesili, has expressed concerns about the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. During …

• Appeals for patience, markets Tinubu President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is aware of hardships some policies of government were inflicting on citizens, and appealed for patience as government takes appropriate measures to ease them. Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman in a statement, said the president spoke in a video clip to woo voters for the presidential candidate of …

In a last-ditch effort to resolve the lingering cash crisis that has thrown the entire country into turmoil, governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday met with the party leadership at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja. This was as the chief executive officers of banks also met to proffer solutions to the situation which …

A private security consultant , Mr. Matthew Ibadin has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to increase the minting of N100 notes and other lower denominations and pushed them in circulation as against the redesigned higher denominations. The Managing Director of Badison Security Limited, said that what the masses needed now are denominations such as N50, N20, N10, …