Some customers of various banks have resorted to the use of Payment Service Providers (PSPs), for their electronic transactions due to epileptic banks’ networks. Some of the customers, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said that electronic transactions using PSPs were faster, more reliable and cheaper. Some of the service providers that…
First Lady Aisha Buhari is currently trending on social media, but for a controversial reason. Earlier on Tuesday, the president’s wife shared a statement allegedly issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) extending the validity of old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes to May 1, 2023. The alleged release allegedly issued by the Director…
Barely one week to the February 25 National Assembly elections, the Supreme Court has affirmed Architect. Austin Asema Achado as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal constituency of Benue State. A 5-man panel of Justices of the Apex Court in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim dismissed…
The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) has asked the Nigerian government and all security agencies in the country to respect the constitutional rights of journalists to freely cover and report on the general elections commencing this Saturday, 25 February, 2023, without obstruction or impediment. In separate letters to heads of all…
Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, a former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has warned that electing a wrong leader would plunge the country into another four years of darkness. Sani also called on Nigerians to be guided by their conscience and experience and elect a competent leader. His statement was contained in a post via…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said the general elections would hold without bags of money at the pulling units, adding that same would be the case during the Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls. INEC also stated that it had concluded plans to conduct credible elections in Rivers State, urging all candidates and…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has accused governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of preparing the ground for anarchy through their utterances over the naira redesign policy. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications Mr Phrank Shaibu, the PDP candidate sympathised with Nigerians over the…
The Osun Asset Recovery Committee uncovered 580 motors, valuable items carted by former government officials The Asset Recovery and Inventory Committee, set up by Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has disclosed that the Committee, upon investigation, has discovered not less than 580 motor vehicles, State owned landed property, Osun Helicopter and other valuables taken…
Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) says the extraordinary contributions of the President of Benin Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BENCCIMA), Mrs Aina Omo-Ojeonu, who passed on Saturday to the growth of the country’s Organised Private Sector (OPS) will not be forgotten in a hurry. Adesugba…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from engaging the services of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in the state pending the hearing and determination of a suit filed…
