JASAWA TIMES

 AHMAD ABDULHAMID GHAMZAKI  Many commercial banks in Nigeria have extended their workdays to weekends for customers to deposit their old naira notes. The action is in response to the deadline set for the collection of old naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele. Recall that the CBN on Thursday, January 26, 2023, insisted that the January 31 deadline for the old notes to stop being legal tender remain unchanged. This has caused panic in the country as over 50 percent of Nigeria’s unbanked population may lose their cash savings following CBN’s requirement that old notes could only be exchanged through an existing bank account. First Bank of Nigeria, Guaranty Trust Bank, and other financial institutions have notified customers to visit their branches on Saturday and Sunday to deposit old Naira notes. “This is to notify the general public that our branches will be open Saturday and Sunday just to receive cash,” one of the banks said in a statement similar

  The Election Petition Tribunal in Osun State has declared Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the July 16 governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the poll. The tribunal, which heard Oyetola’s petition against Adeleke’s victory, on Friday annulled the result of the July 16 Osun governorship poll. Justice Tetsea Kume, while delivering a majority decision declared that INEC did not comply substantially with the constitution and the provisions of the Electoral Act. He subsequently deducted the over-voting observed from the votes scored by the candidates and declared that Oyetola won the election, having polled 314,921, while Adeleke’s score came down to 290,266. Justice Kume directed INEC to withdraw Adeleke’s certificate of return and issued another one to Oyetola who won a majority of the lawful votes. Meanwhile, the Osun State governor, Ade

Dr, Hakeem BabaAhamad The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has warned individuals planning to interfere with the conduct of credible elections and peaceful transition of power to another administration to stay off. NEF said it has reviewed the difficult conditions under which Northerners and other Nigerians live at present as well as concerns over the security of the elections which will be conducted in February and March this year. In a statement signed by the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of NEF, Dr. Hakeem BabaAhmed, the elders said there are concerns over hint on the possibility that the elections may not hold, and some kind of “unconstitutional contraption may be forced on Nigerians after May, this year.” NEF said those who peddle the rumors point to the near-desperate circumstances under which Nigerians live. “They suggest that difficulties simultaneously imposed by insecurity, crushing inflation, fuel scarcity, exchange of old for new currency notes and others which affect parti

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would conduct a mock accreditation of registered voters in 436 polling units (PUs) nationwide, on February 4 using its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) on Friday in Abuja. He said that 436 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines would be deployed for the exercise. “As you are already aware, the commission has taken delivery of the BVAS machines for the election. We have also dutifully tested each machine in our offices nationwide to ensure its functionality. “The next step is to conduct field tests across the country involving actual voters. For this reason, and in readiness for nationwide deployment, the commission is conducting a mock accreditation of voters similar to what was done ahead of the recent Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections. “The mock accreditation wil

Gwamnan jihar Osun, Sanata Ademola Adeleke ya ce zai ɗaukaka ƙara game da hukuncin da kotun sauraron ƙorafe-ƙorafen zaɓe ta yanke, inda ta soke zaɓen da aka yi masa a matsayin gwamna. Acikin martanin da ya yi ta hannun mai magana da yawunsa, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Adeleke na jam’iyyar PDP ya bayyana hukuncin kotun a matsayin kuskure. Ya ce lamarin rashin adalci ne, wanda ya ci karo da muradin mafi yawan al’ummar jiohar. A ranar jumu’ar nan ne kotun sauraron ƙorafe-ƙorafen zaɓe ta soke zaɓen da aka yi wa Ademola Adeleke na jam’iyyar PDP a matsayin gwamnan jihar Osun. Kotun ta kuma ce tsohon gwamnan jihar, Adegboyega Oyetola na jam’iyyar APC ne ya lashe zaɓen idan aka yi la’akari da yawan ƙuri’un da aka kaɗa bayan kawar da ƙuri’un da aka yi aringizo. A lokacin da yake yanke hukuncin, Mai shari’a Tetsea Kume, ya ce Hukumar zaɓe mai zaman kanta ta ƙasa,  INEC ba ta bi tanade-tanaden dokar zaɓe da na Ƙundin tsarin mulki yadda ya kamata ba. A cewar kotun, idan aka cire ƙuri’un da ake zargin

  “They Changed Naira, Hike Petrol To Sabotage My Campaigns But I’ll Win” ~Tinubu The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has said he would be elected Nigeria’s next president despite attempts by some persons to sabotage his chances in the February 25 poll. Tinubu made the assertion Wednesday during a rally at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Bola Tinubu He also said there is a plot by some saboteurs to stop the 2023 general elections from holding. “Let fuel be expensive, only they know where they keep it. Keep petrol, keep the naira, we will vote and be elected. You may change the ink of naira notes. What you expect will not happen. We will win,” the APC flag-bearer was quoted as saying in Yoruba parlance. “They said petrol will rise to N200/litre and N500/litre, let your mind be at rest. They don’t want these forthcoming elections to hold. They want to scatter it but that won’t be possible. “They thought

Majalisar dattijan Nigeria, sun tafi hutu a yau Laraba, domin samun cigaba da gudanar da harkokin yaƙin neman zaɓe a jam'iyyun da suke ciki, don tunkarar babban zaɓen shekarar 2023, kamar yadda shugaban majalisar, Sanata Ahmad Lawan, ya bayyana yayin zaman majalisar na wannan rana. Lawan yace zace zasu tafi hutun ne domin tabbatar da abubuwa sun zama cikin tsari a ƙasar nan, kuma za su dawo a ranar 28 ga watan Fabrairu, kwanaki uku kenan bayan an gudanar da zaɓen shugaban ƙasa dana yan majalisun tarayya, kafin su sake tafiya wani hutun a ranar 1 ga watan Maris, domin gudanar da zaɓen gwamnoni da yan majalisun dokokin jiha, da za'ayi a ranar 11 ga watan Maris. Cikin jawabinsa, Lawan yayi kira ga hukumar zaɓe mai zaman kanta ta ƙasa INEC, da kuma jami'an tsaro, akan su tabbatar sunyi ayyukansu yadda ya dace, domin yin zaɓe cikin kwanciyar hankali da lumana, karbabben zaɓe kuma sahihi. Majalisar Nigeriya

As far as it goes, isn't really a matter of political views, you can have horrendously controversial ideas and be very efficient at carrying them out as a leader. The "quality" of a leader, has to be healthy sound and with good blueprint to carry out his task (Health nowadays is the most essential factor to look at in quality of leadership, competence and honesty. honesty is a defined here as a basic sort of resistance to bribes, kickbacks and cronyism, competence, can be seen in this aspect as the skill to identify the appropriate policy objectives and achieving them at minimum social cost." Though we may imagine that  the APC candidates lacks these qualities being mentioned but some people keep on pushing him just because of cake being covered by him,(Money). People are more likely to elect leaders widely seen as incompetent especially in our dear nation just because of (indomie, spaghetti, or 500, or even less than this)when they feel that the previous one persona