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Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI has warned that the sustained rise in the general price level in recent times has caused some weakening in purchasing power. The chamber, in a statement signed by its Director-General,…

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has commended the Nigerian government for creating a safe environment ahead of the general forthcoming elections. This was made…

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has disowned a statement on social media linking him to the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. The social media post also purportedly indicated…

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) on Sunday called for compliance by the Federal Government to the Supreme Court order on the controversial naira…

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The over N400bn spent monthly to subsidise Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, has been having adverse impacts on the cash flow of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Group Chief Executive, Mele Kyari, stated…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied reports making the rounds that it has authorized deposit money banks to collect the old N500 and N1,000 banknotes. In a statement by CBN’s Director of Corporate Communications Osita…

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has again urged the people of the South-East to resist the sit-at-home order by an anti-Igbo group during the forthcoming elections. The group made the call in a…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called for calm over the ongoing protests rocking different parts of the state. The governor made this known in a press release on Friday signed by the state Commissioner for Information…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the G-5 Peoples Democratic Party governors have crossed the rubicon, saying they were no longer disposed to broker any peace with the national leadership of the party. Wike explained that…

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has revealed that the PDP G5 will work for Nigeria’s unity as the country heads for the polls. Makinde, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made the comment on Thursday when the All…

Lagos State government has begun updating aerial mapping and infrastructure on its landmass. The project, scheduled to last six to eight weeks, will have a Cessna 406 aircraft taking three-dimensional (3D) aerial photographs of every…

Full Fact, a UK-based charity which tackles misinformation through fact-checking and campaigns, is partnering with organisations dedicated to promoting credibility in information during the upcoming general election in Nigeria on…

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday night, alleged that the scarcity of naira notes was a part of the plots to disrupt the forthcoming elections in order to ensure the emergence of an interim government. In a state…

With about one week to the presidential election, the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, on Thursday, said it would deploy 310,973 of its personnel to the over 176,846 polling units nationwide for the exercises holding on February 25 and March…