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Falana Asks CBN To Provide Details Of New Naira Notes Disbursed To Commercial Banks

The law firm of Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide details of the amount of the new naira notes that has been disbursed to commercial banks in the country.

The firm also petitioned the apex bank to provide a list of the names of customers that collected over CBN’s approved sum of N100,000.

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The CBN, has on several occasions, insisted that it has disbursed the new currency notes to banks for circulation. But Nigerians are still finding it difficult to access cash as the scarcity of the redesigned notes persist.

Godwin Emefiele, governor of CBN, accused politicians of hoarding the redesigned naira notes on Wednesday.

The governor said the mop-up of notes by politicians has contributed to the lengthy queues at banking halls and automated teller machines (ATMs) as citizens struggle to lay their hands on the new naira.

Falana’s law firm, in a letter dated February 16, 2023, asked the apex bank to provide necessary information on the redesigned notes made available to commercial banks.

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BREAKING: Police Arrest, Detains Yahaya Bello’s Female ADC, Other Security Details

Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that the Nigeria Police Force has detained a female police officer who was the aide-de-camp to embattled former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.

The ADC was arrested alongside other police officers attached to 48-year-old Bello, and is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Their arrests and detention followed a Thursday night order by the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, directing their immediate withdrawal from the former governor.

Senior police sources, who spoke to The pUNCH correspondent on the condition of anonymity because they did not have authorisation to comment publicly on the matter, noted that the officers were arrested on the suspicion that they aided and abetted Bello’s escape from operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, who had gone to effect his arrest at his Abuja home on Wednesday.

“The ADC and the other police details attached to Yahaya Bello have been arrested and detained.

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APC Denies Targeting Ganduje for Presidency in Viral Update

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The ruling All Progressives Congress has distanced itself from the report credited to its Kano State chapter of the party that the Presidency may have been behind the move to remove the National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, from office.

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Felix Morka, made the rebuttal when he was featured as a guest on Arise TV on Thursday.

The Kano APC through its spokesperson, Ahmad Aruwa, had on Wednesday accused the Presidency of undermining and conspiring against the APC national chairman.

Aruwa made the claims in a viral Update circulating on social media where he blamed some forces in the presidency for Ganduje’s travail.

The Kano APC also criticised President Bola Tinubu for not publicly speaking up for the embattled party national chairman, saying Ganduje personally facilitated his presence in Kano even when some grassroots politicians rejected him.

Reacting, Morka said much as he couldn’t tell the context in which Aruwa made the claim, it was a true reflection of things.

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Open Letter To President Tinubu Over Perceived Political Witch-Hunt Of Yahaya Bello – Lifestyle Nigeria

On the 27th day of January 2024, Yahaya Adoza Bello handed over to Ahmed Usman Ododo as Governor of Kogi State.

Few days to the said handover date, rumors were spreading that EFCC was planning to arrest and or invite Governor Bello over some alleged corruption or fraud that had to do with the notorious 20 billion bailout fund, diversion of N80b Local Government or security funds; etc.

Rumors were also circulating that the Chairman of EFCC sent text messages inviting the former Governor, but no indication or evidence of an invitation letter delivered to Alh Yahaya Bello.

Curiously, on the 5th day of February 2024, and to confirm some of the rumors, EFCC filed an amended charge, wherein the name of Alh Yahaya Bells was included in the charge; though not as a party, but was accused of misappropriating about 80billion Naira sometime in 2015,when he was not Governor of Kogi State.

One wonders how possible this could have happened, which gave credence to the notion that EFCC was on political witch-hunt.

Strangely, while the controversy on the 2015 was raging, EFCC in her desperate attempt, that further exposed her as an agency on a hatchet mission, and as an afterthought, filed another Charge against Yahaya Adoza Bello at another FHC; wherein the 2015 date was changed to February 2016. The question still begging for answer is; how possible for a regime that was sworn in on the 27th day of January 2016 misappropriated or laundered about 80 billion Naira in February 2016, when the budget of Kogi State for the year 2016 was not near 80billion Naira???

It is indeed ridiculous, a mockery of any so called anti-corruption fight, and an embarrassment to Nigeria. This appears to give credence to the belief that EFCC is clearly working outside her mandate( if any) and only out for persecution, witch-hunt, and other primordial, political agendas.

Ironically, Yahaya Bello’s administration was adjudged the best administration in the history of Kogi State. It was also believed that despite the meager resources available to the state, it was optimally utilized to address the issues of security, infrastructure, education, health, etc, to the extent that the government received accolades from the World Bank, other international organizations, and even the Country’s National Intelligence Agency ( NIA ).