President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council, to facilitate and manage the 2023 transition programme, in line with the country’s Transition Law. To that effect, the president signed an executive order number 14, 2023. A statement by Director, Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the Council will be inaugurated on Tuesday, February 14 at 12 noon at the Conference Hall of the SGF. A key feature of the Presidential Executive Order No. 14 of 2023 is the institutionalization of a legal framework that would enable a seamless transition of…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has attributed scarcity of the redesigned naira notes to hoarding by citizens. Rashidat Monguno, director, consumer protection department of CBN, spoke on Thursday in Kwara state while monitoring the compliance of microfinance banks to the apex bank’s naira redesign policy. She said the redesigned notes were made available by the CBN but hoarding made the currency scarce. She said Nigerians now throng banks to collect money almost at the same time. “Because of the attitude of some Nigerians in hoarding the money, even those that don’t really need the money are rushing to get it…

National Universities Commission (NUC) has directed Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities to close universities during the upcoming 2023 elections. This was contained in a letter directed to all Vice Chancellors dated 3rd February and signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration) for Executive Secretary, Chris J. Maiyaki. “In view of the foregoing and concerns expressed on the security of staff, students and properties of the our respective institutions, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has, following extensive consultations with the relevant security agencies, directed that all Universities and Inter University Centres be shut down and academic activities be suspended between 22nd February…

Rescue workers made a final push Thursday to find survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria that rendered many communities unrecognizable to their inhabitants and led the Turkish president to declare it “the disaster of the century.” The death toll topped 20,000. The earthquake affected an area that is home to 13.5 million people in Turkey and an unknown number in Syria and stretches farther than the distance from London to Paris or Boston to Philadelphia. Even with an army of people taking part in the rescue effort, crews had to pick and choose where to help. The scene…