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•Report by Kamil Opeyemi President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday arrived in Daura, his hometown, Katsina State ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. It was gathered that, the presidential jet touched ground at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Airport at exactly 4:41 pm, after which the President and his entourage come down and proceed to Daura on a white helicopter. Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, some members of his cabinet comprising the State Chief Judge, Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar; Commissioner of Health, Engineer Yakubu Nuhu Danja as well as heads of various security agencies were on the ground to…

•Report by Kamil Opeyemi Troops of Joint Task Force Operation Delta Safe and other operations have discovered and destroyed 61 illegal refining sites and apprehended 142 suspects in Niger Delta region. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces on Thursday in Abuja. Danmadami said the troops had continued to sustain the war against oil theft, illegal refineries and other criminal activities in the Niger Delta through aggressive patrols, raids and clearance operations among other activities. He said the operations were conducted at the creeks,…

•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The Senate Nigerian President, Ahmad Lawan, has empathized with Nigerians over the “hardship” they are experiencing because of the implementation of the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Lawan made this assertion in a statement which was signed by him on Thursday. Lawan was of the opinion that though the policy has merits, but its implementation gap unfortunately brought enormous hardship upon citizens across the country. He, however, assured Nigerians that with appropriate intervention by the government and the collaboration of all stakeholders, the hardship will soon fade away and normalcy restored to…

•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has ordered intensive manhunt of those who killed a senatorial candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the state on Wednesday. This is contained in a statement issued by the command spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, in Enugu on Thursday. Suspected members of Eastern Security Network murdered the LP candidate for Enugu East Senatorial Zone, Chief Oyibo Chukwu. The hoodlums also burnt to death a member of the Peoples Democratic Party and attacked the convoy of the All Progressive Congress Governorship Candidate in the state. The Commissioner who…

•Report by Kamil Opeyemi The United States has said that the 2023 general elections in the country not only mean for the country but the entire world. The electoral umpire in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has scheduled this year’s general elections for Feb. 25th for the Presidential and National Assembly elections while the governorship and House of Assembly Elections will hold on March 11th, 2023 respectively. However, while identifying with Nigeria over the forthcoming general elections in the country in a video shared via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday, the United States restated their…

Halimah Olamide The candidate of the Labour Party for Enugu East Senatorial District Barr Oyibo Chukwu has been shot dead. Chukwu was sad to be returning from his campaign when gunmen who appeared to have laid ambush for him struck. He was killed on the spot while his driver, whose name is yet to known was burnt in the car they were traveling in. The killing has taken place just three days to election. His opponent for the Senatorial election are former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of the Peoples Democratic Party and Ada Ogbu of the All Progressive Congress. In its…

European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Samuela Isopi, has asked candidates participating in the 2023 general elections to allow peace reign after the exercise.. Isopi, while addressing gathering at the signing of a fresh peace accord by the 18 presidential candidates seeking election in the Saturday poll, said the EU would provide the needed support to ensure that peace reigns. At the event were President Muhammadu Buhari, former Heads of State Yakubu Gowon, AbdulSalami Abubakar, former South African President Thabo Mbeki and others. Isopi said “We urge all stakeholders to support you in fulfilling these objectives, even the cabinets and political…

By Halimah Olamide Wife of Nigerian president, Mrs, Aisha Buhari, has attributed the post where she allegedly announced an extension of the deadline for old Naira notes to activities of cyber-criminals. NPO Reported earlier that Mrs Buhari’s social media pages -instagram, twitter and facebook- all post a statement purportedly from the Central Bank of Nigeria declaring May 1 as the new deadline for N1000, N500 and others to be used as legal tenders. The CBN immediately told Nigerians it was fake news. In a disclaimer issued by Mrs. Buhari later, she said, “It has come to my attention that a…

By Halimah Olamide The All Progressive Congress Presidential Campaign Council on Tuesday hinted of a possible reversal of the deadline for legal tender status of the N1000 and N500 notes in the country. Amidst uncertainties of the sitting of the Supreme Court slated for Wednesday, the APC-PCC in a post on Tuesday said the Federal Government and the governors that dragged it to the Supreme Court may have settled for May 1 as the new deadline for the old Naira to stop being legal tenders. The party said there will be an out of court settlement on the matter…

As CBN Cries Out It’s Fake News The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha has shared news of a new deadline for Nigerians to use their old N1000 and N500 notes. This was contained in a statement credited to the Central Bank of Nigeria which was purportedly signed by Osita Nwanibosi, Director of Corporate Communications of the CBN. The statement read, “Due to the current and unpleasant situation happening in Nigeria, in line with Mr President. After having a closed meeting with him on the 20th of February,2023, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been directed to ONLY reissue and…