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• Avert national calamity, release documents requested promptly, says Obi’s lead counsel• Obi insists presidential election marred with irregularities, can never be acceptable• Buhari: February 25 elections not perfect, but better than previous polls• IGP directs state commands to hand over electoral offence cases to INEC Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has declared that the …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday directed commercial banks to dispense and receive the old N200, N500, N1000 bank notes. The bank said the notes remain legal tender until 31 December, as directed by the Supreme Court. The CBN made this known in a statement by its acting spokesperson, Isa AbdulMumin. The bank’s directive comes after the Supreme …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred agents from using Point of Sale (PoS) terminals meant for merchants to carry out cash-in and cash-out transactions. The apex bank disclosed this in a circular announcing the Exposure Draft of the Regulatory Framework for Agent Banking in Nigeria. According to the CBN, the agent banking initiative has resulted in the proliferation of …

*Win Governorship elections, immortalize #EndSARS victims on street names Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, rescheduled for Saturday March 18, 2023, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has again appealed to Nigerians to vote massively and decisively for all candidates of the party across the country. Obi made the entreaty on Monday at the …

Edo voters have been urged to come out en masse on Saturday, March 18 to reject lawmakers who were voted into the Edo State House of Assembly by their constituents in 2016 but absconded and failed to be inaugurated thereby denying their constituents quality representation in the Assembly. A pro-development group based in Benin City, the Concerned Edo Citizens, at …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi said he has no grudges with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu regarding his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Obi stated this while speaking in an interwiew with Arise TV on Monday. He said, “I have no issues with Tinubu, he …

While some logistics challenges, malpractices and violence in some locations undermined the election, PREMIUM TIMES believes it is excessive and inaccurate to describe the exercise as totally flawed. Reactions from across the world have followed the 25 February presidential election, which produced old guard politician, Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s next leader. Mr Tinubu was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), …

When the idea of introducing the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System into the electoral process was first mooted by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, it created a wave of mixed feelings among the people. The BVAS machine is a device for the accreditation of voters through biometric capture, uploading of polling results, and other …

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr.  Godwin Emefiele has debunked news on him launching fresh plot on the President-elect, Mr.Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He attributed such a news story which was published in today’s edition of The Nation newspaper  as fake. The Governor disclosed this today in a statement signed by the Acting Director Corporate Communications, CBN, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday said over 170,000 polling unit results of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections have been uploaded on its Result Viewing Portal. INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, stated this on Channels Television’s Programme, Sunday Politics. “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems for purposes of the governorship …