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A presidential pre-election opinion poll commissioned by Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has placed Peter Obi of the Labour Party as the leading candidate. The poll results, which was released on Wednesday, projected that Obi is ahead among four leading candidates for the 2023 presidential election. The three other candidates are Bola Tinubu of the […]

Nigeria’s domestic debt rose to N22.57tn as the Federal Government on Wednesday proposed  a last-minute supplementary budget for the 2022 fiscal year. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for N819.54bn supplementary budget, which it planned to finance through domestic borrowing. Buhari on Wednesday forwarded to the […]

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has finally bowed to pressure to revise the bank’s cash withdrawal limits policy. In a circular on Wednesday by the CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Haruna Mustafa, the CBN said it had reviewed upwards the maximum weekly limit for cash withdrawal across all channels by […]

In a bid to protect Nigerians from falling victim of counterfeiters, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has released details and position of the security features in the new naira notes. Details and position of the security features are highlighted in the documents below as released by the CBN.

The Federal Government is to stop cash withdrawal from all public accounts with immediate effect. In place of cash withdrawals, public officers are to open domiciliary accounts in foreign and local currencies ahead of the commencement of the new policy, which comes on the heels of the new Naira withdrawal policy announced by the Central […]

The 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has expressed confidence that his party will win all elections next year. Speaking in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital, on Tuesday during a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the party, he told the cheering crowd that he has all it takes […]

Domestic airlines under the aegis of the Airline Operators of Nigeria have warned Nigerians of impending disruptions in scheduled flight operations due to the scarcity of aviation fuel otherwise known as JETA1. The AON in a statement signed by its spokesman, Prof Obiora Okonkwo, said the scarcity would force airlines to reschedule flights, leading to […]

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly insulting Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni on social media. Although he was arrested on December 11, 2022, it came to the public knowledge on Monday after the minor’s father, Garba Isa called on police authorities to release his son. Channels Television gathered that the minor was arrested […]

The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said the conviction of his Campaign Organisation’s Director-General, Dr. Doyin Okupe, over alleged money laundering would not break his resolve to be Nigeria’s President. Obi said this during interaction with journalists in Uyo at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State Council Secretariat on Monday. The […]

Brazilian legend, Pele has said that Lionel Messi “deserved” to be a World Cup winner after Argentina defeated France in a penalty shootout in Sunday’s final. “Today, football continues to tell its story, as always, in an enthralling way. Messi winning his first World Cup, as his trajectory deserved,” Pele, a three-time World Cup champion, […]

Few days after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, released the redesigned naira notes in the denominations of N200, N500 and N1,000, fake copies of the new N1000 naira notes have been released into the economy. A mobile money and bank agent in a video disclosed this saying that a customer performed a bank transaction […]