Holds end-of-the-year get-together for supporters A senator representing Ogun West senatorial district in the National Assembly and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, has disclosed that the 2024 appropriation bill of N28.7trillion would put an end to hunger in the land. Adeola stated this in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of … Read more
IMMEDIATE past Minister of State for Budget and national Planning, and frontline governorship aspirant in Edo state, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba has congratulated the good people of Edo State on their triumphal entry into the year 2024, praying that the year will offer them good things and improved living conditions. In a New Year message … Read more
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has met with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, Chairman of the Nigerian Governor’s Forum, Aminu Tambuwal behind closed. The meeting which was held at the State House Abuja came amid protests in many parts of the country over the unavailability of Naira notes. Chairman of the … Read more
Over 20 Deposit Money Banks on Monday began the implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new cash withdrawal limit policy across the country with bank customers expressing anger over the new rule. The Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, had on December 21, 2022, bowed to pressure and revised the bank’s earlier cash withdrawal … Read more
AN Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Sunday called on Igbo communities to boost the agricultural activities in their areas to address the issue of food inflation facing Nigerians. Iwuanyanwu stated this to newsmen in a meeting of the people of Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal constituency under the Mbaike People’s Assembly held in Owerri. To achieve it, … Read more
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari says the Ajaokuta Steel Complex will generate 1.6 billion dollars annually and provide 500,000 estimated jobs for Nigerian youths. Malam Garba Shehu, the Presidential spokesperson in a statement, said that Buhari said this at the Palace of the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, which he also inaugurated as part of his one-day state visit … Read more
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano THE Director Corporate Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr Osita Nwanisobi has said that in line with the preparedness of the bank to introduce the e -Naira it has provided a more robust Technology to check Cyber Crimes, Speaking during a Central Bank Fair in Kano with the … Read more
THE national chairman-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Iyorchia Ayu, on Monday, observed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressive Congress (APC) government is the biggest cancer afflicting the country. Speaking while receiving in a courtesy call, a delegation of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) led by its spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere, … Read more
THE Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has submitted a list of its top 1,000 obligors to the National Assembly, in the latest effort by the organiSation to recover debts owed it. The names were submitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency at the just concluded retreat of the committee in Lagos. … Read more
ATTORNEY-GENERAL of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, issued a directive that a part of the $136 million belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) should be paid in naira equivalent, Keystone Bank has said. The bank made this revelation during a hearing of the Ad-hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of all recovered loots, Movable … Read more