A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish Fred Atteng’s name as the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for the February 25 Rivers southeast senatorial district election.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Dala Inland Dry Port in the Dala Local Government Area of Kano State.
The Arewa4Asiwaju, a North based support group, has attributed the sudden 10 days extension of the deadline for the swap of old Naira to what it called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s sagacity and courage expressed in Abeokuta recently.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) alleged on Sunday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had recruited social media actors to mount a campaign of calumny against it and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
ASHENEWS reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the use of the old notes till February 10, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special assistant, Bashir Ahmad tweeted this on his Twitter handle @BashirAhmaad on Sunday.
The PDP Presidential Campaign rally in Birnin Kebbi this Saturday has been lacklustre as major stakeholders in Kebbi State boycotted the event which ended as a divided house. The Presidential Candidate of the Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa come to Kebbi to be greeted by in-fighting between ‘’invaders’’ who contested and lost Primary elections in APC and hurriedly rushed to PDP to snatch positions at all costs and bonafide members of the PDP who felt aggrieved by such act of dishonour. Already, litigation is ongoing at the Apex Court to restore what the bonafide members…
The Secretary to Niger State Government, Ahmed Matane, has confirmed how airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on January 24 killed about 30 vigilantes and displaced about 8,150 people from Galadima-Kogo and environs in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger.
The Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says he has written to the Presidency to postpone the scheduled inauguration of projects, including the Dala International Inland Dry Port, located at Zawachiki in Kumbotso local government area, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ahead of January 31, 2023, deadline for the submission of old Naira notes, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in collaboration with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Friday, embarked on a sensitization campaign for the people in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
ASHENEWS reports that the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday, signed the state’s N1.768 trillion “Budget of Continuity” into law to consolidate development strides of his administration and satisfy the yearnings of the residents.