Month: October 2022

Finance Minister Faults CBN On Planned Currency Alteration

Onyinye Obianwu

…asks Senate to probe proposal Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmad, has reportedly disowned the new Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy on redesigning the Nigerian currency, the naira. The Minister made this disclaimer when she was to a question raised by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele representing Ekiti Central, during the 2023 budget defence session with the Senate Committee on Finance. Reports reaching voiceofnaija.ng have it that the Finance Minister warned the CBN of the dire consequences that may arise from its new policy. The Senator asked: “Just two…

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Leadership Crisis: Court Orders ASCSN Faction To Vacate Secretariat

Onyinye Obianwu

Honourable Justice D. E. Osiagor of the Lagos High Court yesterday ordered Bola- Audu Innocent and his cohorts to vacate the National Secretariat of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria in Lagos immediately or face the wrath of the law. In a judgment handed down on Wednesday October 26, 2022, Justice Osiagor ruled that it was an abuse of court process for Bola-Audu and his fellow travellers to bring a trade union matter already being handled by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja to his court. A statement…

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7 Killed As Gunmen Attack Apostle Suleman’s Convoy

JUSTINA EMMANUEL OKPARA

About seven persons have been reportedly killed after gunmen attacked the convoy of Apostle Johnson Suleman along the Auchi-Warrake Road, Edo State on Friday. Suleman, who had just returned from a foreign trip, was heading to a destination in Edo State when the gunmen opened fire on his convoy, allegedly killing three of his police orderlies and four other yet-to-be-identified persons. Suleman’s lawyer, Samuel Amune, also confirmed the attack, saying the cleric just returned from a programme in Tanzania. He noted that Suleman escaped death by the whiskers. He said,…

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‘Court Video Confession: How I Killed Ataga All By Myself -Chidinma

JUSTINA EMMANUEL OKPARA

The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) has watched the chilling footage of Chidinma Ojukwu confessing to stabbing to death the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Michael Ataga, alone. It also viewed the grim footage of Ataga’s lifeless body recorded shortly after he was found in a Lagos short-let apartment serviced apartment. Recall that Ojukwu, a 300-level, Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), is the prime suspect in Ataga’s murder. She is standing trial for the alleged offence alongside her sister…

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