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A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says the Nigerian market tops the list of cocaine smuggling regions in Africa. In The Global Report on Cocaine 2023 released on Thursday, the UN agency said the steep growth in supply has been matched by a similar swell in demand. […]
The legal team of the Labour Party is in a meeting with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. The meeting with INEC officials was held at the Commission’s national headquarters to start the process of inspection of electoral materials used for the February 25 presidential election. The head of […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is having an ongoing protest, heading to the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja with supporters and the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. Reports from Arise Television have it that the PDP supporters and presidential candidate all in black attire, are protesting the injustice done by […]
Due to the Electoral Act of 2022 not being adhered to during the collation of the 2023 presidential election, the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party chairmen stated that Prof. Yakubu Mahmood should resign his position as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The parties during a live press conference also […]
The Federal Government has issued a stern warning to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, asking him not to truncate the 2023 general elections with his “inciting, self-serving and provocative” letter on the elections. Obasanjo had on Monday worried over the conduct of the 2023 presidential election, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order interim that the 14 properties in Lagos, Abuja, and the United Arab Emirates linked to the Kogi State government should be seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Trial judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo, granted the order following an ex parte motion filed […]
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 […]
Pastor Uche Aigbe of House on the Rock, Abuja, is currently being detained by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command. A source told Daily Trust that the pastor arrived at the Guzape office of the anti-car theft of FCT police command on Monday morning in the company of the policeman whom he collected […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arrested the officials of the Abuja head office of Sterling Bank over “N258 million” new notes “stashed” in the bank’s vault. In a statement on Tuesday, the commission said the regional and service managers of the bank were arrested on Friday. […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that it will penalise banks that fail to comply with its directive to dispense the newly redesigned N200, N500 and N1,000 through their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The warning was issued yesterday by the CBN Director, Currency Operations Department, Ahmed Umar, during a training session […]
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