The Vice President of Nigeria, VP Kashim Shettima has labelled some Nigerians as clowns, over comments celebrating the Naira free fall against the United States Dollar. He stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking at a function. The VP who expressed his dissatisfaction with some Nigerians who took to social media, X (formerly Twitter) to make the comments, said it is disheartening, stressing that they were supposed to join forces with the government. Shettima in the video shared on
Trojan News reports that the naira exchange rate at the official window on Wednesday hit an all-time low, exchanging at N1,520 to $1. Recall that the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, earlier summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Mr Olayemi Cardoso, to appear before it next Tuesday.