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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, withdrew a fresh application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25. Both PDP and Atiku, who are separately challenging the outcome of the election that was declared in favour of the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting…

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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has visited the presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide Bishop David Oyedepo as the March 18 date for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections draw close. Mr Sanwo-Olu paid the courtesy visit on Monday at the church’s headquarters in Ota, Ogun State. Dressed in white, the governor posed for photos with Oyedepo who was also dressed in his customary white attire. Sanwo-Olu announced his visit via Instagram on Tuesday. “I paid a courtesy visit to Bishop David Oyedepo founder of the Living Faith Church…

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Police in Bauchi have declared a member of the House of Representatives Yakubu Shehu wanted and placed a bounty of N1 million on him over alleged homicide. Bauch State Police Command’s spokesperson Ahmed Wakil announced this in a bulletin on Tuesday. Shehu represents Bauchi Federal Constituency on the platform of PRP but later defected to APC. The bulletin said the Nigeria Police Force, under the authority of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, had declared Shehu wanted. He is wanted “in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy, causing grievous…

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Femi Aina, father of Oreoluwa Aina, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member killed in a Lagos train accident last week, has disclosed that his daughter took the BRT bus involved in the disaster because of naira scarcity. BBC Yoruba quoted Mr Aina as saying “if not for the money the authorities have withdrawn from circulation, my daughter would not have boarded that bus. “But because she had no money on her, that’s why she boarded the bus.” The bereaved father said he was in Abuja when the accident occurred on Thursday,…

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Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo on Monday said the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele confirmed to him that banks can now receive and dispense old naira notes. Soludo stated this in a release which he also shared on social media. He used the medium to urge Anambra residents to begin transacting with the old banknotes. Prof Soludo, a former CBN governor, said Emefiele personally confirmed the development to him in a phone conversation on Sunday night after a bankers’ committee meeting. According to him, tellers…

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