Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Thursday, 24th November 2022

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday launched new naira banknotes, expressing his happiness that the redesigned currencies by Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM) PLC are locally manufactured.

Speaking at the launch of the new banknotes ahead of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the President told the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the basis of his approval to redesign the ₦.200, ₦.500 and ₦ Explained in detail. ₦1000 banknotes.

According to the President, “The new Naira banknotes have been strengthened with security features that make them difficult to counterfeit.”

He also said that the new notes would help the Central Bank better design and implement monetary policy objectives as well as enrich the collective memory of Nigeria’s heritage.

President Buhari commended the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefile, and his representatives for this initiative, as well as the Managing Director, Executive Directors and staff of Nigerian Security Printing and Minting PLC for “joining the apex bank in redesigning the currency Thank you for your tireless work”. , and to print the new Naira notes within a comparatively short period of time.

Acknowledging that international best practice requires central banks and national authorities to issue new or redesigned currency notes every 5 to 8 years, the President said that it has now been almost 20 years since The last head of the country’s local currency was redesigned.

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to Niger Republic’s capital Niamey on Thursday for the African Union (AU) summit on industrialization and economic diversification as well as an extraordinary session on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA).

Naija News has learned that the President will also attend the release of the French version of the book titled “Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria”, as well as the inauguration of the ‘Muhammadu Buhari Boulevard’, which will be named after him. Is placed. Government of the Republic of Niger.

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said in a statement on Wednesday that the naming of the boulevard and the release of the French version of the book, written by John Peden, who is a professor of international studies at George Mason University, North . Virginia, United States, on Thursday, November 25, 2022 ahead of the AU summit on Friday.

Shehu noted that the President is expected to deliver his national statement at the African Union Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification, meeting under the theme “Industrializing Africa: A Renewed Commitment to an Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization and Economic Diversification”.

The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has declared that Nigeria’s existence as a single, united nation should not be forced to continue.

According to him, a referendum should be held for the people to decide whether they want to leave or stay.

The politician/news publisher said that the current 1999 Constitution of Nigeria needed to be changed as it was not ratified by the citizens of the country before it became binding on them.

He said in an interview with ICIR: “Nigeria has reached a point where either we work on a full federation, or we give up on the federation altogether and that’s one of the ways to work on a full federation”. One is to sit and frame the constitution the other is to ratify it, hold a referendum so everyone can say yes or no to it and you are good to go.

Speaking further, Sowore said that if he emerged as Nigeria’s president in 2023, he would allow a referendum on the breakup of Nigeria.

When asked if he was not concerned about having a president who would oversee the disintegration of the country, Souvar said he was not, but added that he was not in a race to break up the country but rather a role model for it. Are in the race to form a union.

He said that even those who are not seeking separation physically, have also been mentally separated from Nigeria.

According to him, the only way to reverse the growing trend is to remove the fundamental injustice in the system so that people can feel safe and happy in their land.

Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) spokesperson Daniel Bwala has said that the lack of support for Rivers State Governor Nyasome Wike will have little impact on the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) prospects in the election.

Bwala said this during an interview on the channel television program Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.

He insisted that despite the current crisis, the party’s flag-bearer Atiku Abubakar would still win the presidency.

Expressing confidence in the new Electoral Amendment Act, Bwala said the February presidential election could be no different from the Osun election, where some party members allegedly worked against the PDP.

He said that his victory is God’s intention, so no one can stop it.

Loretta Onochi, the new media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, was on Wednesday appointed as the original chairperson of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

President Buhari also announced the nomination of 15 others as members of the NDDC Board in a letter sent to the 9th Senate led by Ahmed Lawen.

In a letter read in the upper chamber at a plenary session on Wednesday, the president urged the Senate to confirm the nominees.

Recall that in October 2020 President Buhari nominated Onochi as the National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to represent Delta State.

However, the nomination was condemned by members of the opposition party and civil society groups.

She had claimed that she is a card holder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who cannot work in a sensitive institution like INEC.

On three separate occasions during the screening, Onouchi denied that she was a member of the APC.

Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, has ordered the detention of some villagers in Zamfara state for failing to pay the full security levy imposed on them by their community within the required deadline.

Naija News gathered that Turji had ordered the payment of the sum of N20 million as protection fee to the Moriki community in Zurmee Local Government Area of ​​Zamfara State.

He gave them two weeks to return the total money in exchange for free access to the farm and other daily activities by community members without fear of attack.

To raise the amount, it was found that the community members themselves decided to give N6,500 per person, but at the end of the day, they could only raise N10.6 million as some families refused.

Despite this, the community organized seven members to distribute the funds raised at an agreed location in Kasayawa.

It was gathered that seventeen loyalists of Turji had come to the agreed meeting point to collect the money, but when they found out that the amount was incomplete and the terrorist leader was informed, he had his boys kill five of the seven people. who had come to deliver money to one of their camps in the Jirari forest.

Naija News recalls on Monday, November 14, Defense Headquarters (DHQ) unveiled the identity of nineteen (19) most wanted terrorist leaders it is currently tracking, including Turzi.

List issued by Director, Defense Information, Maj-Gen. Jimmy Ekpor said the identified terrorists were wreaking havoc in the North East, North West and North Central regions of the country.

Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the Federation Government, has endorsed Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Lawal revealed that he is no longer endorsing Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate for the presidency in 2023.

The former SGF claimed that the opposition PDP held discussions with the Christian leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition party agreed to their demands.

He said that the Labor Party also tried to persuade him and other aggrieved members to work for the party, but decided to support Atiku and the PDP.

The APC chief insisted that the pro-Muslim ticket by the ruling party would result in Tinubu not winning the upcoming presidential election.

Lawal said that he and others supported Tinubu to emerge as the APC’s flag-bearer, but later realized that he was hiding his decision to choose a Muslim running mate from them.

Plans by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to contest Zamfara State in the 2023 general election suffered a setback on Wednesday.

This is coming following a ruling by an appeals court sitting in Sokoto State in an appeal filed by the Zamfara State chapter of the PDP and its gubernatorial candidate, Dawda Lawal Dare.

The information commissioner in the state, Ibrahim Magaji Doosara, revealed the development in a statement made available to reporters in the state capital, Gusau.

According to the statement, the appeal was against the decision of the Federal High Court, Gussau delivered on 16/9/2022, which nullified the party’s gubernatorial primary election for non-compliance with the provision of the Electoral Act 2022 and the PDP guidelines. For the conduct of primary elections.

All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council spokesman Festus Kemo criticized Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar over his remarks during a meeting with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

Speaking during an interactive session with CAN leaders in Abuja on Tuesday, Atiku accused Nigerians of being responsible for their own woes when the ruling APC was brought to power in 2015.

He claimed that the APC does not deliver on the promises made to Nigerians eight years ago, stressing that the party has failed to tackle insecurity, restructure the country and fight corruption.

But responding to Atiku’s attack in a conversation with The Punch, Keyamo said it was clear the PDP flag-bearer did not have fresh ideas about the best ways to deal with the APC.

The minister of state for labor and employment said Atiku had failed to propose restructuring during his eight years in government and he had no right to accuse the ruling party.

Therefore, Keemo asked the former Vice President to show a document by which he proposed real federalism and reorganization including the state police.

Action Alliance (AA) presidential candidate and former chief security officer for the late military chief, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamzat al-Mustafa, has accused foreign nations of prolonging the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.

Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja at a roundtable about the 2023 general election, Al-Mustafa said the insurgency began on November 1, 1999, following the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities in the country in 1972. was done.

He said that the crisis in African countries like Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Libya was caused by western countries.

According to a former dictator’s aide, Western countries are behind the anarchy in these countries because they have high reserves of mineral resources.

He said the federal government had discovered large deposits of oil and uranium in the north-east and north-west in 1996, which were now being mined illegally as insurgency grew.

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