Day: April 7, 2021

Naira falls at official market, Slides to N410.50 per $1

Tade Salako

  Nigeria’s unit of exchange, Naira, fell marginally against the U.S dollar at the I&E window of the foreign exchange market on Tuesday, dipping to N410.50 to a dollar. This, data posted on the FMDQ Security Exchange showed, however, remained stable at the black market. Naira, Africa’s most populous country’s currency closed at N410.50 at the trading session of the I&E window, this represents N1.20 or 0.29 per cent devaluation from N409.30 the rate at which it closed at the previous session on Thursday, last week. The local unit experienced an…

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EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Lawmakers run to Spiritualists as 4 colleagues die within 56 days

Aliyu Aliyu

    “We don’t want to die now” a lawmaker who, in an exclusive chat with Platforms  Africa, blamed colleagues untimely death on “spiritual attacks from enemies;” revealed “secret” of how panicky members “fortified” themselves   Four popular Federal lawmakers in Nigeria died in what some of their colleagues described as “mysterious circumstances” in the last 56 days, a situation that is gradually enveloping the House of Representatives, where they belong while alive, with serious apprehension. Platforms Africa reports that the “mysterious” deaths recorded between February 8 and April 6,…

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