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By Steve Ndubueze, Correspondent Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Lagosians to shun any act ...
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Be calm, dont cause crisis, Tinubu urges Lagosians, as he loses state
By Steve Ndubueze, Correspondent. Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Lagosians to shun any act that can lead to breakdown of law and order in the state. This is coming on the heels of crisis rocking the state over his inability to win his stronghold of Lagos state. ...
Read More »Election holds in Southeast, despite growing threats.
By Eugene Onyia, Correspondent Despite heightened threats of no elections in Southeast, SylvaNews can confirm that presidential and senatorial elections were held in southeast. It would recalled that a splinter group of IPOB threatened fite and brimstone over the forthcoming elections, boasting that elections would not hold in all the five southeast states. ...
Read More »Elections: IPC flays attacks on journalists in Rivers, Oyo, FCT, others, calls for investigations
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Read More »Sit-at-home order may end in Southeast, as Finland authority arrests IPOB seperatist, Ekpa
Simon Ekpa, a separatist agitator. By Steve Ndubueze, Correspondent. Peace may finally return to Southeast, as IPOB splinter agitator, Simon Ekpa has ...
Read More »Stay at home, ASSBIFI directs bank workers, urges FG to provide security.
By Nnamdi Ukwatar, Correspondent. As attacks on bank workers continue unabated, the national secretariat of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI has directed bank workers, to immediately stay away from works in all states, where bank branches are attacked. The directive, which started with immediate effects, ...
Read More »Naira redesign: Good policy, poor implementation, says ASSBIFI boss—puts losses at over N5bn
Pix showing President Buhari and CBN boss, Emefiele having discussions on how to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians, over growing cash crunches in the country, as protests mar new Naira redesign policy. By Sylva Emeka-Okereke, JP, Publisher Disturbed by unwarranted attacks on bank facilities across the nation, caused by heightening cash squeeze, the President of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance ...
Read More »Full Text of Buhar’s Broadcast: Naira redesign: CBN to recirculate old N200 bills, as N500, N1000 no more legal tender
President Muhammadu Buhari in a nationwide broadcast, Thursday has given approval to the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to put back into circulation the old N200 currency earlier withdrawn. According to the president, this order was to help ameliorate the sufferings being witnessed by a large section of the populace occasioned by the scarcity of fund. The president however, insists that the old N500 and N1000 bills will no longer be a legal tender and can only be redeemable in the CBN. Below is the full text of the president’s address to the nation: NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU ...
Read More »Media, the heroes of democracy, says Aremu, seeks credible 2023 general elections.
Pix shows Issa Aremu, the Director General, MINILS, expressing some points while other participants on the high table listened with rapt attention during LAWAN-FES media engagements held in Lagos yesterday. By Sylva Emeka-Okereke, JP, Publisher. It ...
Read More »Council of State backs FG on Naira redesign, calls for adequate cash supply.
By Sylva Emeka-Okereke, JP, Publisher Arising from its meeting today, the National Council of State has backed the federal government’s decision to redesign the nation’s currency, calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. to ensure adequate supply of cash. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, revealed this while briefing newsmen at the end of the Council’s meeting held at the Presidential Villa, ...
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