Vice-President Kashim Shettima says the naira would have appreciated to N1,000 per dollar in weeks if the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had not intervened in the foreign exchange (FX) market on Monday to ensure market stability. Shettima spoke on Tuesday during his address at the Progressive Governors Forum, Renewed Hope Ambassadors Strategic Summit in…
A former General Manager of the upstream division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as it then was, Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, has been sentenced to 87 months in a US federal prison for receiving a $2.1 million bribe while serving as an officer of the national oil company. Okoronkwo, a Los Angeles-area lawyer, according…
The Kano State government has announced plans to set up Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) clubs and appoint surveillance focal persons in tertiary institutions to strengthen the fight against infectious diseases in the state. The Director-General of the Kano State Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KNCDC), Prof. Muhammad Adamu Abbas, disclosed this during an…
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday amended the Electoral Act to allow electronic transmission of election results, while retaining manual submission as a fallback for technical failures. The move reverses the upper chamber’s earlier rejection of compulsory electronic transmission from polling units to INEC’s Result Viewing Portal (IREV). Senator Tahir Monguno, who sponsored the motion, said…
The Lagos State Government has sealed off the popular Ladipo Spare Parts Market, along the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road (Apapa–Oshodi Expressway), in Mushin due to repeated environmental violations. Tokunbo Wahab, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, said taskforce operatives carried out the enforcement action as part of the state’s ongoing efforts to…
