Buhari meets Tinubu, Adamu over APC presidential campaign
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night held a pre-campaign kick-off meeting with the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu. The President arrived Abuja from a two-week medical trip to the United Kingdom (UK) and hosted the meeting some hours later. The meeting was briefly announced by...
Reps summon 63 agencies for spending N2tn illegally
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has summoned 63 institutions of the Federal Government for implementing budgets not presented by the President and passed by the National Assembly, leading to illegal spending totalling over N2 trillion. Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke, also had written a letter to the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, to...
ICAN lists areas of concern in Naira redesign
AT the backdrop of the implementation of the Naira redesign by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has listed issues such as impact on inflation and exchange rates, cost of designing and printing the new currency notes and the timing of the policy, as some of the issues the apex bank...
3bn people can’t afford healthy diet — UN
More than 3 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet, as food insecurity and global warming rise, thus governments and international development partners need to invest in sustainable food cold chains to decrease hunger, provide livelihoods to communities, and adapt to climate change, the UN has said. At the 27th Climate Change Conference, COP 27, the Sustainable Food Cold Chains...
2023: Tinubu, Atiku, Obi bicker over fake news, hate speech
Sponsoring fake news against me won’t help Atiku, Obi –TINUBU THE campaign teams of the presidential candidates of the three leading political parties – All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakr; and Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, were, yesterday, locked in bickerings over fake news and hate speech. Tinubu’s campaign fired the first salvo; as...
2023 poll: Muslim women give conditions for voting leaders
The female wing of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit, has listed criteria that women and Nigerians should consider before voting for any candidate in the 2023 general election. They said this during the 2022 Sisters’ Enlightenment Programme organised by MSSN Lagos’ Sisters Circle held in Lagos and themed, ‘Blooming Mettle’. During the programme, female Muslims were...
10 keys to tackle insecurity, by Afe Babalola
The Founder and Chancellor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has offered ten principles that can help tackle the insecurity challenges facing the country. He said if the government will adopt the principles, the security situation in the country will change for the better. Aare Babalola made the principles known in his lecture at the 15th anniversary and...
65,699 PVCs burnt, fear heightens after twin attacks on INEC offices
• INEC summons emergency security meeting today • Ogun CP: INEC offices need increased security • PDP, APC condemn attacks • Gaya: Insecurity won’t affect election, census • Elections can’t hold amid insecurity, secure Nigeria now, Bishop tells FG • PDP restates commitment to violence-free poll despite attack on its rallies • Election results cannot be influenced with BIVAS, INEC reiterates A resurgence of arson targeted...
Forex crisis: Traders lose as naira rebounds to 720/dollar
The naira has rebounded by 20.8 per cent to 720/dollar at the parallel market, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The development came two weeks after the local currency came under severe pressure at the black market, following the announcement by the Federal Government to redesign the naira. The naira which fell consistently throughout last week against the United States dollar...
Terrorism, violence threat to Africa’s stability, peace – UN chief laments
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ms Amina Mohammed has said the African continent cannot experience stability and peace if terrorism and extreme violence persist. Mohammed said women and children are the primary victims of terrorism in Africa and the world at large adding that terrorists are blinded by “Their senseless, terror-fuelled violence” which “has killed and wounded thousands.” The...
