Wife of Nigeria’s President, Aisha Buhari has reacted to the Peoples Democratic Party that she is not involved in foreign exchange dealings and could not have been a beneficiary of an alleged $22million allocation from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

From oil crash to TSA (Treasury Single Account), to JP Morgan, it has evidently been a trying time for the Nigerian financial sector. It has therefore been a very busy year and a half for the policy managers at the Central Bank of Nigeria. How effectively has the apex bank managed what is arguably one of the most difficult periods in Nigeria’s economic history? Has the bank shown sufficient capacity to manage the crisis in terms of the policy options, given the prevailing policy environment? What are the steps it has taken so far? How have the indicators stacked up in response to the steps taken?

Fire, yesterday, destroyed over 4,000 shops at Abubakar Rimi Market, Sabon Gari, Kano.

That President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted failure in the three elections conducted under his watch only confirms Sunday Vanguard’s insistence that the era of free, fair and credible elections may have gone for good. And whereas the drumbeats of war, which came from both the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were enough to elicit the type of outcome witnessed in the Rivers State re-run elections, the less than efficient activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, introduced a dangerous dimension, to further inflame an already combustible situation. This report will show that the President’s condescending disposition towards INEC, is partly responsible for the shambles being witnessed, just as it would point out why, if these inconclusive elections are anything to go by, the APC Federal Government may be suggesting to Nigerians that it is not interested in free, fair and credible elections. Read the facts as they speak for themselves.

Saudi authorities executed a Pakistani convicted of killing a Bangladeshi woman on Sunday, raising to 79 the number of death sentences they have carried out this year.