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…As govt calls for calm, adoption of alternative payment channels The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, had said that over a billion naira has been disbursed to Edo State in a span of three days to cushion the hardship faced by customers in accessing redesigned naira notes. Director, Risk Management, CBN, Abuja, Dr. Blaise Ijebor, disclosed this in Benin City, …

A civil society group in Edo State, Edo Civil Society Organizations, led by Comrade Agho Omobude on Tuesday blocked the main entrance of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Benin City over the scarcity of the naira notes which has brought suffering to millions of Nigerians. As a result of the protest, vehicles coming into the Ring Road through Akpakpava …

– As Diri, Makarfi,others accuse APC of dividing Nigeria Former Speaker of the Federal House Representatives, Rt.Hon. Yakubu Dogara has said that for equity and justice, Nigerians should support the North to produce the next President that will complete additional four years to meet up with the South. According to him, simple calculations showed that the southern region of Nigeria …

*Reconfirms deployment of over 1.2m ad-hoc staff *2023: Court stops INEC from ending ... The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has beefed up security at its states and local government offices where sensitive materials for the 2023 general election will be kept one week to the poll. It also disclosed that no fewer than 1,265,227 ad-hoc …

At the moment, election merchants are at the peak of displaying their propagandistic prowess ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Politics is a game of persuasion. It is the psychological warfare of winning people’s hearts to do the bidding of an individual or a group. But propaganda is a major tool politicians employ to fight political and psychological battles. It …

Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been committed to prison for allegedly disobeying court order. The court also directed the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to effect Bawa’s arrest and remand him in Kuje prison for the next 14 days until he purges himself of the contempt. Justice R.O. Ayoola of the Kogi State High …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said that Nigeria’s judiciary, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should be held responsible should the nation’s democracy collapse. Wike, while swearing in five Rivers State High Court judges and two Customary Court of Appeal judges, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, said with enabling laws in place, Nigeria’s democracy should be …

…As Kogi, Kaduna, Zamfara drag FG to Supreme Court …Group goes to court, seeks expiry date extension …14 political parties threaten withdrawal from 2023 polls A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory at Wuse Zone 2, yesterday issued an order restraining President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from extending or interfering with the February 10 …

The parties commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the redesigning of the banknotes. Thirteen’ opposition political parties in Nigeria have said they will withdraw from the forthcoming general elections if the Central Bank of Nigeria extends the deadline for the naira swap. Only the leader of one of the parties addressed the press and he did not list the remaining 12 parties that …

•APC plotting to swap N22 .5bn for vote buying – PDP •Blames two N/West govs as arrowheads, alerts security forces •Account for $2b arms fund, APC PCC challenges PDP •Says PDP’s a party of looters The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, were at each other’s jugular, yesterday, over PDP’s allegation that some APC leaders were …