I’m not interested in running for president -Ex INEC chair Jega

  Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, says he has no intention to contest for presidency in the 2023 elections. He said this on Saturday at a lecture organised by the Kwara Visioners Network for Rural Development, with the theme ‘Politics, Governance and Leadership Recruitment in 21st Century Democracy,’ in Ilorin, Kwara State. Jega stated that he had not told anyone he was interested in running for the position of Nigeria’s president noting that the speculations were made by the papers. He said, “I have not told anybody that I have presidential ambition. These are

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Dollar scarcity: Foreign airlines slash ticket sales on Nigeria routes

Dollar scarcity: Foreign airlines slash ticket sales on Nigeria routes …unable to repatriate over $144m revenue as CBN rations forex As the naira crisis continues to worsen, foreign carriers operating in Nigeria have begun moves to reduce the total number of tickets they sell on Nigerian routes amid worsening dollar scarcity that has made it difficult for them to repatriate billions of naira in ticket sale proceeds to their head offices abroad. The development will lead to a significant reduction in the about N1tn total ticket sales over 25 foreign carriers make on Nigerian routes. This is happening as the

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12.5kg cooking gas may sell for N10,000 by Dec, say marketers

Marketers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, well known as cooking gas, on Saturday, expressed worry over the supply shortage leading to persistent increase in the price of the commodity. They warned that 12.5kg of cooking gas currently selling between N7,500 and N8,000 could rise to N10,000 before December if nothing was done to address the crisis. The marketers lamented that more Nigerians had resorted to using firewood, charcoal, sawdust, among other unrefined energy sources whose prices have also begun to rise. The Executive Secretary of the National Association of LPG Marketers, Mr Bassey Essien, disclosed this during the weekly e-discourse organised

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