President Buhari Commends CBN For Financial System Stability
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commended the Central Bank of Nigeria for diligently working towards achieving financial system stability in Nigeria. President Buhari gave the commendation in his address at the 15th Annual Banking and Finance Conference. It was organized by the Chattered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the theme of the conference...
Electricity Workers Demand Reversal Of Power Sector Privatization
The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, on Wednesday, urged the Federal Government to reverse the privatization of the nation’s power sector, describing new owners of the privatized companies as ‘hustlers’ and ‘hawks’ that have contributed poorly to the power sector. This body also accused the new owners of deceiving the Federal Government into paying N2 trillion subvention, insisting that...
Blocking Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Is A Violation Of The Law — FG Tells NANS
THE Federal Government, on Wednesday, said that the protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, that blocked a traffic-laden section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are “violating” the country’s law. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided...
We Will Win 14m Votes For Tinubu, Says Group
As the presidential election draws nearer, a group under the auspices of South-West Agenda for Asiwaju, has pledged to win 14 million votes for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju, Ahmed Tinubu in the election. To achieve this, the group urged its members in all the 18 Local Government Areas of Ondo State to start mobilising support for the APC Presidential-hopeful...
Calling For Ayu’s Resignation Is Achievable – Atiku Abubakar
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has stated that the demand by some political big wigs in his party, calling for the resignation of the National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, is achievable. Atiku disclosed this when he met with PDP stalwarts in Ibadan, on Wednesday. Wike had faulted the emergence of Atiku as the presidential...
Ekiti High Court Sentences Man To Life Imprisonment For Raping Nine-Year-Old Girl
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 31-year-old Okada rider, Idowu Adebayo, to life imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old girl. The defendant was first arraigned on one charge bordering on rape before Justice Olalekan Olatawura in March, 2022. The charge read, “That the defendant on October 8, 2021 at Ilogbo Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of...
Police Officers Kill 3 Alleged Kidnappers In Edo, Rescues Child
The police command in Edo on Wednesday said it rescued a one-year-old baby and killed three alleged kidnappers on the Benin-Auchi Road. This is contained in a statement by ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, Deputy Police Public Relations Officer of the command. “Distress call was raised by distraught residents of Achigbor Community along Benin- Auchi Road in Uhunmwonde LGA of Edo State at...
We Are Not Responsible For High Rise In Exchange Rate – Customs
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that its clearance system was not responsible for the rise in the exchange rate. The NCS Spokesman, Timi Bomodi (DC), explained yesterday, that the rate of exchange used to calculate duty payrnents was not a static phenomenon and that the Central Bank of Nigeria remained the only organization vested with the authority to...
Gov. Akeredolu’s Mother Dies At 90
The mother of the Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Evangelist Grace Akeredolu, is dead, aged 90. In a statement made available to journalists by the chief press secretary (CPS) to the governor, Richard Olatunde, Akeredolu’s mother died peacefully in her sleep early Thursday morning. According to the statement, the mother of the governor is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and...
2023 Election: INEC Reveals Plans To Check Vote-Buying
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said the Commission is mapping out measures to check vote buying in the 2023 general polls. Promising that the forthcoming polls would be better than the recent Ekiti and Osun governorship polls, he insisted that the establishment of the Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal will check vote buying...
