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The immediate former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele awarded N61.5 billion for the printing of ill-fated new naira notes to a United Kingdom company, De La Rue in flagrant violation of President Muhammadu Buhari's directive that it should be given to a domestic firm.   This revelation is contained in the report of President Bola Tinubu's Special Investigator on the CBN and Related Entities, Jim Obaze.  

Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, the personal secretary to President Muhammadu Buhari who is in his 30s, is set to retire with the biggest retirement benefit from loot said to run into billions of dollars.   And to ensure he enjoys his loot, SaharaReporters learnt that Yusuf secured a form of diplomatic immunity from prosecution through his appointment to the National Intelligence Agency, according to sources in the Presidency.  

According to them, despite the attrition rate in the aviation sector because of teething problems, airliners in Nigeria are making brisk business in the last few years as they witness heavy traffic of customers. Apart from people who have the means that always travel by air, middle-income earners are increasingly avoiding road travel because of insecurity. In the North, for instance, they specifically cited the challenges of travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Kano, Gusau, Kebbi and Sokoto in the North-West; and Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Yola and Jalingo in the North-East. Our correspondents r...