Supreme Court to rule on naira swap
The Supreme Court will rule by 10 am today in the cases filed by some States to challenge the propriety of the naira swap policy of the Federal Government. An official of the court announced the shift in time, a moment ago, to a packed court. The official was silent on what informed the shift from the 9 am usual sitting...
Breaking: Many feared dead as explosion rocks crude oil tapping point in Rivers
PORT HARCOURT: Many persons have been reported killed in an explosion that happened at the crude oil tapping point in a Rivers State Community. The incident happened at Rumuekpe Community in Emohua Local Government Area of the state in the early hours of Friday. It was gathered that the explosion occurred when one of the buses loaded with crude oil ‘packaged...
AITA Urges Tinubu to maintain crusade against corruption
By Danusa Ocholi As Nigerians celebrate the election of a new leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a notable human rights activist, philanthropist, anti-corruption crusader and publisher of Capital Watch Media Magazine, His Excellency, Ambassador Aminu Abubakar Majidadi, has called on the nation’s President-elect not to relent on his promise to rekindle the hope of Nigerians in their country when he...
‘From today, I stay off PDP,’ Fayose quits partisan politics
Former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and partisan politics. Fayose made this announcement while speaking in an interview on ARISE TV on Wednesday. Announcing his resignation, Fayose said, “From today, I stay off PDP. I say it here from today, I step aside because I must be talking like a...
Obi: The ‘trader’ who changed the game
DIRISU YAKUBU writes about the game-changing performance of the candidate of the Labour Party in the just-concluded presidential election, Peter Obi, who polled over six million votes What started as a joke a few months ago has morphed into a national movement labelled by many as the third force expected to produce a new government in the next few years. Not...
#Emilokan: The kingmaker who became king
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was at dawn on Wednesday, declared the winner of last Saturday’s presidential poll. ADELANI ADEPEGBA and ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS write on the politics of the kingmaker who is set to become Nigeria’s 16th president on May 29 The All Progressives Congress standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was in the early hours of Wednesday declared the winner of last...
Buhari hosts Tinubu, Shettima, governors in Daura
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday hosted President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima in his Daura country home, Katsina State. The duo were in Daura to present their certificates of return to Buhari, who led the All Progressives Congress (APC) to victory in his capacity as chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council (PPC). They were accompanied by members of...
Tinubu extends Olive branch to Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso
President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu, yesterday extended the olive branch to his co-contestants in the February 25 presidential elections. He also promised to hit the ground running as soon as he assumes office, saying he would work day and night to the best of his ability to make the country better. The key contestants include candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,...
What does Peter Obi do next?
Those whose understanding of Saturday’s presidential election is that the Labour Party played the “spoiler” for the Peoples Democratic Party miss the significance of the moment. As of now, the PDP is effectively dead and the LP is the new opposition party. The PDP presidential candidate might have won many votes, but they lost on multiple levels. There are...
Banks’ assets rise to N73tn – CBN
Total assets of the banking industry grew by N14.36tn or 24.24 per cent from N59.24tn at the end of December 2021 to N73.59tn in the corresponding period of 2022. The Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed this in the personal statement made by the Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability Directorate, CBN, Aishah Ahmad, at the last Monetary Policy Committee meeting. She said,...
