5 issues to know to begin your Thursday

Presidency: Aisha Buhari assured of Tinubu’s potential to ship

The spouse of the President, Aisha Buhari, has expressed confidence within the potential of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-Elect, to ship a rustic the place unity, peace, and progress are sustained.

Buhari made this recognized in her congratulatory message, which she personally signed on Wednesday in Abuja. The spouse of the President expressed optimism that Tinubu would work very exhausting to ship the Nigeria of our dream.

”It’s my conviction that the Tinubu/Shettima Presidency will lead this nation into the longer term that our founding fathers envisioned,” she declared.

Learn additionally: INEC presents certificates of return to Tinubu, Shettima

Elections: Police ban rallies, celebrations in Kebbi

SP Nafi’u Abubakar, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in an announcement issued on Wednesday mentioned that the Kebbi State Police Command has put a cease to all types of celebrations and rallies by political celebration supporters following the victory or in any other case of their events within the state.

Abubakar mentioned, “The Kebbi State Police Command needs to tell members of the general public that every one types of celebrations and rallies by political celebration supporters for or in opposition to the winners or losers in respect of the simply concluded Presidential and Nationwide Meeting elections have been banned with quick impact in Kebbi State.

“Within the gentle of the above, any deliberate try and violate the ban or trigger breakdown of regulation and order by any group beneath no matter guise is not going to be tolerated.”

The police spokesperson warn that it could take care of any troublemaker within the state particularly those that have determined to violate this directive. He mentioned safety brokers had been deployed and directed to make sure full enforcement throughout the state.

Banking business property rise to N73tn – CBN

The Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) disclosed in an announcement made by Aishah Ahmad, Deputy Governor, Monetary System Stability Directorate, on the final Financial Coverage Committee (MPC) assembly that the entire property of the banking business grew by N14.36 trillion from N59.24 trillion on the finish of December 2021 to N73.59 trillion in the same interval of 2022.

“Key business aggregates additionally continued their year-on-year upward trajectory, with whole property rising to N73.59tn in December 2022 from N59.24tn in December 2021, whereas whole deposits rose to N45.50tn from N38.42tn over the identical interval,” she mentioned.

“Complete credit score additionally elevated by N5.14 trillion between finish December 2021 and end-December 2022, with important progress in credit score to the manufacturing, basic commerce, and oil & fuel sectors. This spectacular improve was achieved amid a continued decline within the non-performing loans ratio, from 4.90 % in December 2021 to 4.20 % in December 2022.”

Customs Zone “B” seizes N306m Tramadol, others

Isa Sulaiman, the Public Relations Officer on Wednesday in Kaduna, mentioned that the Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ made 130 seizures of smuggled gadgets in two months.

Sulaiman mentioned that the gadgets had been seized from January 1, to February 28.

In response to him, the entire Responsibility Paid Worth of the seized gadgets is N305.71 million.

The gadgets included 119 packs of Tramadol and Tramaking 225mg, 569 packs of unregistered pharmaceutical merchandise,17 sacks of second-hand sneakers, seven cartons of international cigarettes, 147 items of Jack knives, and 6 cartons of Machetes.

Others gadgets on the checklist embody 635 kegs of Premium Motor Spirit, every containing 25 litres, 9 automobiles, 50 cartons of international cleaning soap, 724 baggage of international rice, 163 Jerrycans of vegetable oil, and 646 cartons of spaghetti and macaroni pasta, in addition to 90 bales second-hand garments.

The Public Relations Officer mentioned that the gadgets had been smuggled into the nation in clear violation of the Federal Authorities insurance policies concerning imports and exports.

French President Macron begins Africa tour in Gabon

Emmanuel Macron landed in Gabon on Wednesday, the primary cease of an Africa tour that may even take the French President to Angola, the Congo Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Macron’s journey, his first to all 4 international locations as President, follows the launch of a brand new Africa coverage and is concentrated away from France’s troubled former colonies in West Africa’s Sahel area the place anti-French sentiment is rising.

 Spiralling insecurity there has spurred navy takeovers in Mali and Burkina Faso, two hotbeds of jihadist exercise, whose ruling juntas have butted heads with France in addition to with different regional and Western allies. (Reuters)