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  The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said a total of 12,988,978 cyber-attacks were blocked originating within and outside Nigeria during the presidential election. The ministry spokesperson, Uwa Sulaiman, noted in a statement on Tuesday that in the run-up to the 2023 general elections, there had been...

  The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has renewed his calls on political parties to consider Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly election as a contest and not a war. Yakubu, gave the admonition at an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES)...

  The Presidency has noted that despite that Nigerians may might have been going through the suffering occasioned by the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) but they have embraced it. This was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on...

Governor Bello Matawalle says the Central Bank of Nigeria’s compliance with the Supreme Court order on old currency notes was a victory for Nigerians. “All Nigerians can now sigh a relief on this matter, and we expect more cash to be in circulation to ease our pains, while those who...

  The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that he has never stolen money from the state government and that he was ready to swear to prove he is telling the truth. Challenging his predecessors, the governor said they should also come out to swear, if their hands...

    The legal team of Labour Party (LP) candidate for the governorship election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV), said he remains the party’s authentic flagbearer. Olagbade Benson, the Lead Counsel, told reporters on Monday that three court cases instituted against his client’s candidacy recently had been struck out....

    Human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections destroyed lots of myths that hitherto prevailed in the nation’s political space. He said in spite of the challenges related to the polls, many positives were recorded including the destruction...

  Nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court judgment mandating that the old N,1000 and N500 notes remain legal tender till December 31, 2023, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday bowed to pressure and officially ordered commercial banks to comply with the court verdict. The apex bank also...

says gov has done well for Yoruba nation, deserves second term Former Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on residents of Oyo State to re-elect the state governor, Engr. 'Seyi Makinde, so that he can complete the good job he has been doing in the state. He described...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has made a U-turn on his earlier statement that he would only challenge the process that led to the declaration of the All Progressives Congress’ Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election and not the declaration itself....