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Hoodlums Responsible For Mile-12 Disturbance, Says LSPMA Official
The Lagos State Park Management Agency (LSPMA) Mile-12 Branch, on Friday denied that its officials were involved in the early Friday protest over the lingering scarcity of the Naira currency notes. Some hoodlums, who were protesting scarcity of Naira notes were responsible for the early morning crisis that happened at the area on Friday The Chairman of Mile-12 Branch of the...
Oba of Lagos Speaks On Declining Peter Obi’s Request To Visit Him
The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu says he bears no grudges and harbours no resentment towards the Igbo. The monarch said this in reaction to his purported rejection of Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, request to visit him. A female supporter of the Labour party candidate had accused the monarch of rejecting the moves by Peter Obi to visit him at...
Naira, Fuel Scarcity: Those Disobeying Supreme Court Order Attempting To Truncate Democracy, El-Rufai Hits Buhari Again
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive limiting the legal tender status of old notes to only N200, describing it as a total disregard of the Supreme Court on the matter. He noted that the misguided action of the Attorney-General of the Federation to mislead the President into engaging in such public violation of the...
Naira Notes Scarcity: APC Should Take Responsibility For Its Policy Failure — Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the All Progressives Congress, APC, to take full responsibility for the chaos of the implementation of its policies, including the naira redesign, which has unleashed hardship on Nigerians. Atiku, who made the call in a statement signed on behalf of his family and campaign in Abuja yesterday,...
404,106 Security Personnel To Participate In General Elections — IGP
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, on Thursday, said 404,106 personnel from various security agencies would be deployed for the conduct of the coming general elections in the country. He announced this while featuring at the Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said, out of this, the police would...
Buhari Jets Out To Ethiopia For AU Summit On Peace And Security, Climate Change
President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, leave Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to participate in the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). The President will be accompanied on the trip by some Ministers and other top government officials. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, announced this in a...
Naira Redesign Will Tackle Money Politics Ahead Of Polls — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday morning in his nationwide broadcast said that the Naira redesign policy has to a reasonable extent been able to curb money politics ahead of the February 25 election. President Buhari also charged the electorate to go out to vote for candidates of their choice without fear, saying that adequate security shall be provided to them...
New Naira: Full Text Of President Buhari’s Nationwide Address
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENCY SWAP AND STATE OF THE NATION, ON 16th FEBRUARY, 2023 My Dear Compatriots, I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation and to render account on the efforts of our administration to sustain and strengthen our...
Buhari Declares Old N200 Still Legal Tender, N500, N1000 No Longer In Use
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the restoration of the old N200 notes as legal tender, ABN TV reports. He made this announcement in a national broadcast on Thursday morning. “I have approved to the CBN that the old N200 note be allowed along with the new N200 notes for 60 days from February 10 to April 20, when the old N200...
Buhari To Address Nigerians On Naira Swap
President Muhammadu Buhari will make a national broadcast on Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 7am, ABN TV reports. This was disclosed by a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, late Wednesday night. He said Television, radio stations, and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)...
