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Daily Rendezvous Culled from VENTURES  By Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe - New Naira Notes off to a Sloppy Start - it's a Economic Policy Misadventures  When you log on to the homepage of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a timer stares back at you, counting down to January 31st, when the current series of N200, N500, and N1000 notes will become invalid in Nigeria. But as we inch closer to that deadline, there’s growing uncertainty around its realism. Let’s start from the beginning. In late October, when Nigeria announced that it would redesign these notes, it sparked a frenzy of mixed reactions, most of which were not optimistic. But the central bank cited several reasons for making this move. Primarily, it believed there were unhealthily large volumes of cash stashed outside banks, most of which were illegally acquired. According to Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, the apex bank had lost track of N2.7 trillion of the N3.2 trillion notes in circulation. So it planned t...

Daily Rendezvous Hama Bachama, Buba Marwa, Gen. PC Tarfa, Billed for National Honours Recipients.  Full list of Awardees: GRAND COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE NIGER (GCON)  1. Sen. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, PhD President of the Senate (Yobe)  2. Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola CJN (Oyo)  3. Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad CJN (Bauchi)  4. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala DG WTO (Abia)  5. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed UN, Deputy Secretary General (Gombe) B:  COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (CFR)  1 Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila Speaker HOR  2 Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege Deputy President of the Senate  3 Mr. Boss Mustapha SGF  4 Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan HOS  5 Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara Former Speaker HOR  6 Hon. Justice Kudirat M.O. Kekere-Ekun 7 Hon. Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad  8 Hon. Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem President Court of Appeal Plateau  9 Mallam Abba Kyari (Posthumous)  10 Justice Ayo Salami (...

Daily Rendezvous President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking confirmation of seven ministerial nominees. The nominees are:  - Henry Ikechukwu – Abia State - Umana Okon Umana – Akwa-Ibom State  - Ekuma Joseph – Ebonyi State - Goodluck Nana Obia – Imo State - Umar Ibrahim Yakub – Kano State  - Ademola Adewole Adegorioye – Ondo State -  Odo Udi – Rivers State

By PA BALOGUN ADEOTI ISHOLA A deep search for the golden and youthful political technocrat for the Nigeria Vice Presidency may not be farfetched now that the  ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken the right steps in the right direction.   You may want to ask me of what directions I am speaking about.  And as an elder citizen of this country, I will like  my readers, great Nigerians to know that I am a Nigerian, non partisan and one of the analysts on issues of public concern, whose opinions are devoid of sentiments of any sort.  Now that all political parties in our noble nation that are duly registered by the Nigerian political umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have chosen their presidential candidates and now in frenzy searches for marketable complement to be the next Nigerian Vice President by 2023. After a thorough research based on Qualities, Competence, Nationalism and Patriotism of a suitable candidate t...