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The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed commercial banks to dispense and receive old naira notes as legal tender across the country. The CBN gave the directive at a Bankers’ Committee meeting held on Sunday, according to a statement by the acting Director, CBN Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, on Monday. This is coming hours after […]

The United Kingdom government is developing plans to relax immigration procedures that will combat prolonged shortages in the construction industry. According to Business Standard, the easy visa policy will address labour shortages as encouraging Britons to return to work will not be enough to bridge the gaps. The Migration Advisory Committee, which advises the government […]

The reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will go on, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) held yesterday. It rejected the request by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from tampering with information on the February 25 presidential election stored on […]

Three people have been arrested over the murder of a Philippine provincial governor and eight others, authorities said Sunday, adding another suspect was killed in a shoot-out. Seventeen people were also wounded in the audacious attack on Saturday in the sugarcane-growing heartland of the Philippines. At least six gunmen armed with rifles and wearing military-style […]

President Buhari has departed the Umar Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, for Doha, Qatar, for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LCDs). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State and some other governments officials were at the airport to bid the president farewell. A statement by […]

Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murders of his wife and son on their hunting estate in a case whose twists and turns drew global attention. Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh, scion of an elite family of judges and attorneys, to consecutive life terms […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, said the presidential bid of his Labour Party, counterpart, Peter Obi is premature. Atiku, who stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja, insisted that he remained the stepping stone to the aspiration of the Igbo to produce  Nigeria’s President. He said, […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Gregory Obi, has said that he won last Saturday’s presidential election and would prove it. He said this on Thursday in Abuja at an ongoing press conference which he called his first reaction to the election. The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), […]

The United States on Wednesday congratulated Nigeria on the election of ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu while calling for calm amid accusations of voter fraud and concerns over technical glitches. Tinubu was declared the winner Tuesday of the February 25 polls in Africa’s most populous democracy. “The United States congratulates the people of Nigeria, […]

Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, has broken his silence after the election he lost to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival. Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,984,520 to emerge second. while Obi came third with 6,101,533 […]