News as it breaks
Recall that the Association had Friday directed members in states where banks, Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, were vandalized to stay away from their duty posts until further notice to safeguard their lives and properties.
Ahead of this Saturday’s election the Labour Party LP has urged Nigerian Youth to shun violence and to avoid being used as a tool by desperate politicians to cause violence during and after the elections.
The industrial action, The Nation learnt, is owing to attacks on bank workers by depositors of the old N,1000, N500 and N200 notes.
In a nationwide survey conducted by Market Trends International (MTI) among stakeholders to gauge opinions and understand the perception of the average Nigerian
“We have no cash to pay our members for their cocoa supplies and they won’t accept bank transfers,” Arayela said. Up to 500 tons of the union’s produce is stuck in warehouses, he said.
The Command lamented the loss of lives and properties following the attack, called for calm and assured residents of their resolve to flush out the “criminal elements”.
On Thursday, Buhari said he directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to recirculate only the old N200 notes.
El-Rufai alleged that the development was meant to ensure that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other candidates of the party lose.
Adamu said the level of floods in highly probable flood-risk States, is expected to be high in terms of impact on the population, agriculture, livelihood, livestock , Infrastructure and the environment, between April and November.
An exchange rate of N462.09 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N461.25.
