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“The United States stands with the Nigerian people as they prepare to make their voices heard by voting in general elections on February 25. We do not support any individual candidate for office, but we strongly support free, fair, and peaceful elections.” — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken #NigeriaDecides See videos:
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Tayo Oyetibo, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to make cash available to the political parties towards Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election logistics. The request contained in a statement titled “Political Parties Needed Cash Too” followed reports that the CBN has promised to provide cash to […]
The trial of former Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, before a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has been stalled due to his fresh application, challenging the Court’s jurisdiction to try him. Sashore is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged offences bordering on money […]
An opinion poll conducted by a group of Data Analysts and Public Relations Experts has projected the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to win the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The poll, which lasted four (4) weeks from January 7 to February 11 2023, picked the APC candidate, […]
A Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has vacated its ruling that convicted and sentenced two Fidelity Bank’s officials – Nneka Chinwe Onyeali-Ikpe, who is the Managing Director, and Mrs. Unuigboje Ezinwa, who happens to be the Company Secretary – to six weeks in prison or a fine of Four Hundred Thousand Naira for […]
Following attacks on some banks in parts of the country by angry Nigerians, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has ordered banks to immediately begin to collect the old N500 and N1,000 notes from members of public. The Apex bank in the fresh directive further insisted that the old currencies are no longer legal tender, […]
Lagos State Government has noted with deep concern the protests in some parts of the state this morning. The protesters are said to be as a result of the people’s anger over the Naira redesign and its consequent scarcity that has caused so much hardship and confusion among the people. Governor Babajide SanwoOlu, in a […]
Attorney-General of Lagos State and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, has joined the debate, saying the rejection of the old Naira notes is contrary to the Supreme Court’s stand. Onigbanjo stated this when he appeared on TVC Business Show, adding that petrol stations, banks and others, who reject the old Naira notes could be […]
Governor Babajide SanwoOlu has announced a N400M grant as support for both practising and upcoming filmmakers and other practitioners in the creative sector. Commissioner for Tourism Arts and Culture, Pharm. (Mrs.) Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, conveyed the Governor’s gesture to beneficiaries recently at the screening exercise for the State’s Film Fund applicants at Alausa, Ikeja. She said, […]
In an effort to ease the suffering of lawyers and litigants filing Court processes at the Lagos State Judicial Registries, the State Chief Judge, Kazeem Alogba, says the public are now free to make payments to the registries through physical cash, electronic transfer and Point-of-Sale, PoS machines. Justice Alogba made the announcement, on Thursday, in […]
