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Senator Ademola Adeleke The Osun State Election Petition Tribunal on Friday insisted that the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmud Yakubu, produce the academic certificates and other documents of the state’s Governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, submitted to the commission for the 2018 governorship election. This followed …

Iwuanyanwu Share on FacebookShare On WhatsappShare On Twitter A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, issued a warrant of arrest for the Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Amarachi Iwuanyanwu over his alleged involvement in a N785 million fraud. The court directed the Economic …

Atiku Abubakar Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Atiku Abubakar has vowed to implement the policy document presented to him by the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Atiku made this vow during his meeting with the CAN leadership in Abuja on Tuesday. The PDP presidential …

Inuwa Yahaya, Gombe State governor, on Tuesday, expressed the commitment of the state government observe the lessons of the Niger Delta in its oil exploration at the Kolmani River located between Gombe and Bauchi states. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, flagged off the Kolmani Integrated Development Project in the North-East, …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that it plans to adjust exchange rates but the bank cannot adopt a speculative black market rate as its official exchange rate. Hassan Mahmud, Director, of Monetary Policy Department of the CBN said this while the explaining the reasons for the decisions taken …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed his special assistant on social media, Lauretta Onochie, as Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Buhari communicated Onochie’s appointment in a letter written to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, seeking the aide’s confirmation as the substantive chairman …

  The Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr Ayodele Subair has been conferred with the Most Innovative CEO of The Year Award 2022 by the New Telegraph Awards 2022.   The award ceremony, held at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, on Friday, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the new naira notes as proposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Buhari unveiled the new currency notes on Wednesday morning before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the state house, Abuja. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (BN), was in …

L-R: APC’s Oyetola and PDP’s Adeleke   A witness, Mr Isiaka Olanrewaju, on Monday told the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal that there were irregularities in the election results which declared Sen. Ademola Adeleke, as the Governor-elect. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on July 16 declared Adeleke as …

Soft drinks The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has kicked against the federal government’s proposed 20 percent ad-valorem excise tax on non-alcoholic beverages. At a meeting held recently in Lagos, operators in the carbonated soft drinks sub-sector of MAN said that such a move would spell doom for the soft …