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Ademola Adeleke, Osun State governor Ademola Adeleke, Osun State Governor, has said the mandate given to him to govern the state would be revalidated through the same judicial process that annulled his victory in the July 16 governorship poll. Adeleke spoke while receiving ‘Unit to Unit Ambassadors,’ a campaign organisation …

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has suspended his campaign activities until further notice over unending fuel and new naira-note crisis in the state. Makinde, whose campaign trail had visited some parts of the state, announced the suspension of his campaign activities at the flag off of …

New Naira notes The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has predicted that there would be a possible drop of 25 per cent in monthly sales of locally produced goods if the current hardships being experienced in accessing naira notes persisted for the next three weeks. The Director General of MAN, …

New N1,000, N500 and N200 Notes Issued By the Central Bank Of Nigeria The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Friday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to allow both the old and new naira notes to co-exist as the new notes have been insufficient. The governors made the plea in …

University Of Benin The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has reacted to a violent incident involving students of the institution and Nigerian soldiers. On Thursday, some soldiers attached to the Army Supply and Transport (S & T) Barracks, Ugbowo, Benin City, clashed with some students while attempting to …

  – Vows to deal with anyone engaging in breach of public peace Following the emergence of a video earlier this week showing a man wielding a pump action rifle and threatening public peace, the CSP Egbeyemi-led Rapid Response Squad (RRS), working on actionable intelligence, carried out a sting operation …

…says queues at ATMs will disappear soon The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has directed deposit money banks to pay a maximum of N20,000 of new naira notes per day over the counter (OTC), to each bank customer, just as it vowed to go after those selling and abusing the …

According to reports, Simisola Gold, birth name, Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with Twitter handle @SimisolaofLala, had been arrested for selling new naira notes on social media. Nollywood actress and popular slay queen, Simisola Gold has been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, for selling new …

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, has asked the federal government to allow states to fix the salaries and allowances of their public officials. Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday at the zonal public hearing on the review of the 2008 remuneration package for political, public, and judicial office holders organised by the …

Gov. Wike and Atiku Abubakar Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has cancelled the approval given to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar to use the Adokye Amiesimaka Stadium for his campaign on February 11. In a letter with reference No. MOS/C/409/S.49/T/15 of 11 January, …