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The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it has suspended the promotion of eight police commissioners to the rank of assistant inspector general over the snub of the mandatory interview. The commission also suspended the promotion of 11 deputy commissioners of police to commissioners. The PSC took the decision at the end of […]

Standard and Poor’s (S&P), a international rating agency, has revised its outlook on Nigeria from stable to negative. The agency, however, affirmed the nation’s B-/B long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings. S&P said the new outlook reflected “increasing risks to Nigeria’s debt servicing capacity over the next one-to-two […]

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says the currency redesign policy the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) comes with pain, but in the long run, it has significant economic and social benefits. In October 2022, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the CBN, announced the plan to redesign the N200, N500, and […]

Yakubu Dogara, a former speaker of the house of representatives, says the endorsement of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by President Muhammadu Buhari is a “satire”. At an APC campaign rally in Nasarawa on Saturday, Buhari said Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, is the next president of […]

Bukola Saraki, former senate president, has described recent comments by Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, about restructuring as “cheap lies”. While speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, el-Rufai accused Saraki of frustrating the constitutional amendment agenda of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to restructure the country when he was senate […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council says Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is not concerned about the effects of the naira scarcity on Nigerians. In a statement issued on Friday, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesperson of the campaign, said if Tinubu was concerned about Nigerians, he would have […]

Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba social-political organisation, says the Labour Party is now the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). NADECO, a pro-democracy group, formed in 1994, campaigned for the recognition of the late Moshood Abiola, presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election. Speaking at a rally in Abeokuta, the capital […]

As a student of development, I have patiently studied the trajectories of several nations — Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the US, the UK, Norway and some developing countries — and I have a confession to make this morning: it is only in Nigeria that people blame their underdevelopment on the constitution. I admit that we […]

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says accreditation figures and results will now be transmitted simultaneously on election day. Speaking to journalists after monitoring mock accreditations in some polling units in Abuja, on Saturday, Yakubu said such simultaneous transmission would ensure the figures correlate. He said although the […]