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Over the weekend at Abeokuta, the state capital of Ogun, a woman reportedly set herself on fire over her inability to pay back a N70,000 loan she obtained from a microfinance bank. The diseased burnt herself inside her rented apartment at Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta was simply identified as mama Dada. She […]
The Texas board of nursing has filed charges against some nurses for allegedly obtaining educational credentials fraudulently in the United States. In a multi-state coordinated law enforcement action, called Operation Nightingale, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), discovered that some individuals had obtained fraudulent nursing degree […]
The Central Bank of Nigerian has debunked reports of her directing commercial banks to accept N500 and N1000 notes from Nigerians. This was issued in a press release by the apex bank shared on its official Twitter handle on Friday. The statement read: “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been drawn […]
The Department of State Service (DSS) has uncovered a plan by Boko Haram terrorists to attack the Abuja-Kaduna train service in the coming days. The Ministry of Transportation, in a letter to the Ministry of Defence, obtained by Daily Trust on Thursday said it had, on February 1, received a letter from the DSS […]
Suspected militants linked and loyal to a group called Biafra Nations League, BNL, have reportedly shot dead two escorts of an oil vessel near Cameroonian waters. According to reports from the Daily Post, eyewitnesses said the incident happened at about 4 am in the Idabato subdivision of the Bakassi Peninsula, an area controlled by […]
Chichi Ojei, presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM), says there’s a plot by the party to align with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the elections. In a statement issued on Thursday night, Ojei said the scheme is being orchestrated by the national executive committee (NEC) of the party. Ojei said as […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has listed Michael Enyong as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom. This follows the Abuja federal high court’s sack of Umo Eno as the governorship candidate and subsequent order mandating the PDP to submit Enyong’s name to INEC. On October 4, 2022, […]
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has ordered the arrest of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, over his alleged role in a protest that led to the destruction of banks and the death of no fewer than three people in the state. Obaseki, in a Wednesday statement by his Commissioner […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said that the old N500 and N1,000 banknotes are no longer legal tender in the country. The president made this known on Thursday morning during an address to Nigerians were he also apologised to Nigerians over the difficulties experienced in accessing the scarce new naira notes. […]
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned a hearing in the suit banning the use of the old naira to Wednesday, 22nd February 2023. The three states filed the suit against the Federal Government seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank […]
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