The Central of Nigeria, CBN, announced its Monetary Policy Committee meeting schedule on its website on Tuesday. Accordingly, the apex bank stated that the two-day meeting would be held from 20 March to 21 March 2023 in Abuja. MPC is the highest policy-making committee of the Bank with the following mandates; Review economic and financial…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has slammed the federal government, saying President Muhammadu Buhari has a history of disobeying court orders. Falana stated this during an interview on Channels TV on Monday. He said, “It is very sad. I do hope that this outgoing government would comply with the judgement in totality.” Falana condemned…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has renewed calls on political parties to consider Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly election as a contest and not a war. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman said this at an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. Yakubu urged political leaders…
Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that his principal’s visit to the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has nothing to do with politics. Sanwo-Olu shared a picture of himself and Oyedepo on his verified Twitter page…
Ahead of the Saturday, March 18 gubernatorial polls, nine political parties under the Alliance of Registered Political Parties (ARPP) have declared support for the reelection of the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat in Lagos state. Governorship candidates of five of the political parties in the ARPP also stepped down for Mr…
Nigerian rapper Nnamdi Nwabasili aka N6 has revealed why only university graduates should be allowed to vote in Nigeria. The On-Air-Personality argued that elections under democratic rule were too important to be influenced by a teeming illiterate population grappling with poverty. The entertainer insisted the financial incapacity of the illiterate voting populace further makes them…
The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, leveraged on a lot of factors to garner sweeping victory in the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones in the February 25 presidential election. Okowa, who is also the governor of Delta…
Following its dissatisfaction with the outcome of the just concluded presidential election, the legal team of the Labour Party has arrived at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja to inspect materials. It was reported that the team are currently meeting with officials of the commission. The meeting with INEC officials, which is being…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has stated that he has no issues with Bola Tinubu, president-elect. According to him, Tinubu is like a father to him. He said he is only challenging the process by which INEC got the results that were announced. While he was interviewed on Arise TV on Monday,…
The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has issued a strong warning to residents of the state rejecting the old naira notes. In a video posted on his Twitter handle, the governor vowed to deal with any trader or business entity rejecting the old Naira notes. “I am hereby sounding a note of warning to…