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Langtang Market Women scoff out celebration as APC loss Governorship election in Plateau. Langtang main Saturday market women storm out market square with artificial Tribal mark (SBL) in celebration of PDP Victory and APC Defeat at poll. Credit: Langtang Power House

Recall that Nigeria’s food inflation has been on the rise and according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the food inflation rate in February 2023 was 24.35 per cent on a year-on-year basis — representing a 7.24 per cent point increase compared to the 17.11 per cent recorded in February 2022. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Budget and Planning, Engr Nebolisa Anako, who made the remark in a workshop on Thursday in Abuja, said this has led to lower income, food insecurity and malnutrition. The permanent secretary said this has seriously put food out of the reach of many. “This has indeed put food out of the reach of many and undermined the right to food thereby stalling the efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 that emphasised ‘zero hunger,” he said. Engr Anako who was represented by the Director of National Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Zakari Lawani, said the development of an implementation strategy for the Nigeria Food Systems Trans...

National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023. A state Resident Electoral Commissioner who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity confirmed the decision. Credit: Punch

First Bank Announces Planned Downtime By Aduragbemi Omiyale One of the financial institutions in Nigeria, First Bank, has announced that customers may find it difficult to carry out financial services through its platform this weekend. In a message to its customers on Friday, the lender explained the planned downtime is to enable its engineers to maintain its platforms. However, it disclosed that this would downtime would be experienced between 9:00 pm on Saturday, March 4, and 7:00 am on Sunday, March 5, 2023. “We are running a scheduled maintenance on our platforms from 9:00 pm – 7 am on March 4 and 5, 2023. We will be back up and ready for you from 7 am,” the notice seen by Business Post read. First Bank used the opportunity to caution its customers against revealing their vital banking details to anyone, stressing that it would not request them to do so. “Please note that under no circumstance will we ask for sensitive transaction details such as your account ID, Passwo...

The Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the African Democratic Congress have asked the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, to step aside. The three parties in a joint press conference on Tuesday, in Abuja, alleged that the February 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections were marred with violence, rigging and intimidation of voters. The parties demanded the conduct of fresh elections. “We are therefore constrained by this development to state that INEC compromised the integrity of this election even before collation commenced at the polling units. “Section 60 sub-section 5 of the Electoral Act says that the presiding officer shall transfer the results, including total number of accredited voters and the results of the ballots in a manner as prescribed by the commission. “A failure to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act and the guidelines makes it imperative that all results recently uploaded on the IReV portal mu...