By Toyin Saheed Commercial Banks in Ilorin the Kwara State capital have begun partial compliance with the Supreme Court order approving the use of old N1,000 and N500 and N200 notes as legal tender for 10 months. Our Correspondent Toyin Saheed, who went round the Ilorin metropolis reports that commercial banks had begun partial compliance with the order even though
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By Dare Akogun President Muhammadu Buhari has canvassed for duty-free and quota-free market access for products originating from the world’s 46 least-developed countries to ensure their integration into regional and global value chains. Speaking in Doha, the capital of Qatar at the United Nations (UN) Conference of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the President strongly criticized the current structure of the
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By Toyeeb Omotayo The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday issued Certificates of Return to winners of the February 25, 2023 Senatorial elections in Nigeria The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu made the presentation at the National Collation Centre (the International Conference Centre) in Abuja. Yakubu had on Saturday said winners were declared for 423 legislative seats, indicating
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By Dare Akogun The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) has announced that it will fund grants to Iraq and Yemen, marking the first countries in the Middle East to become part of the GCERF global partnership. Projects supported by GCERF aim to reach vulnerable individuals and communities, equipping them to be better able to counter violent extremist rhetoric
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By Dare Akogun The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, today released the breakdown of results for the National Assembly elections conducted on Saturday, February 25 with the All Progressive Congress retaining majority in bith chambers of the assembly. INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmood, noted that 98 out of 109 Senate seats have been declared. In the House of Representatives, 325 out
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By Kayode Adeoti The candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) representing Magaji Ngeri Constituency, Barrister Magaji Oba Abdulkadir, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve on its logistics system in order to ease voting exercise for the electorate in the forthcoming gubernatorial and House of Assembly polls in Kwara State. Abdulkadir, said INEC should ensure
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By Omotayo Toyeeb The federal, state and local governments have shared N750.174 billion as Federation Allocation for January 2023. According to the figure released by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), at its meeting, the sum included the Gross Statutory Revenue, Value Added Tax (VAT), Electronic Money Transfer Levies (EMTL), Augmentation from Non- Mineral Revenue, and an additional sum of
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By Toyeeb Omotayo A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and the Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), Ado-Ekiti Afe Babalola, has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to shut down tertiary institution in the country over the forthcoming elections. The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission (NUC) had on February 9 ordered the closure of universities across the country
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The UN humanitarian agencies have said that no fewer than 60 million people in the Horn of Africa were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) incident manager
Nuclear power is a solution to climate change because it is the largest source of low-carbon energy that produces minimal greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
As part of it’s aim at cutting down greenhouse gases and replacing it with cleaner sources of energy, the governor of Lagos State South West Nigeria Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival
Adetokunbo Abiola Methane continued its upwards emissions spiral, as it recorded its fourth highest annual increase in 2022, rising by 14 parts per billion to 1,911.9 ppb in the past year, faster
The value of Nigerian soya beans in the global market has reached N462.2 billion ($ 1.18 billion) due to huge production which has led to the exportation of the according to recent
A new report from the UN Climate Change shows that countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature
Dare Akogun is a media innovator, strategic communication professional, and climate and energy transition journalist with over 11 years of impactful contributions to the media industry.
