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CBN says old N200, N500, N1,000 notes remain legal tender till Dec 31

NewsDeskNgMar 14, 2023March 14, 20230

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said old N200, N500, N1,000 banknotes remain legal tender till December 31, 2023. The apex bank’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin disclosed this in a statement on Monday. The CBN also said Deposit Money Banks operating in Nigeria have been directed to...

Fire Razes Shops At Singer Market In Kano

NewsDeskNgMar 13, 2023March 13, 20230

Fire razed some shops and the upper building of the old Savannah Bank building at Singer market in Kano State in the early hours of Monday. In a viral video shared on Twitter, people can be seen trying to put off the fire and sort out goods not yet damaged...

Naira swap policy: Nigerians are dying daily, ACF tells Buhari

NewsDeskNgMar 13, 2023March 13, 20230

Ten days after supreme court order, restraining the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) from going ahead with it’s naira redesigned policy, Northern group under the auspices of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on president Muhammadu Buhari and the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to obey the supreme court judgement...

SSANU chair blames Imo NUT chairman for strike action by workers

NewsDeskNgMar 13, 2023March 13, 20230

Comrade Uchenna Nwokeji, chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in Imo State has blamed the immediate past caretaker committee chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Imo state, Rev comrade Philip Nwansi for the ongoing industrial action by workers in the state. It will be...

Bloody weekend as bandits kill 40 in Katsina, Kaduna

NewsDeskNgMar 13, 2023March 13, 20230

By our correspondent with agency report At least over 40 persons were killed over the weekend in Katsina and Kaduna states by terrorists. It has been reported that no fewer than 23 villagers were killed and several others injured on Saturday as terrorists invaded villages in Kankara communities, Katsina State....

Sack INEC chairman now to save Nigeria’s unity, Catholic priest tells Buhari

NewsDeskNgMar 13, 2023March 13, 20230

Following the controversies trailing the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria, a call has gone to President Muhammadu Buhari to remove the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Coḿmission, INEC, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, with immediate effect to save the country from possible break-up. Spiritual Director of the Canaanland Adoration Counselling...

Nigeria’s first female senator, Franca Afegbua is dead

NewsDeskNgMar 12, 2023March 12, 20230

Nigeria’s first female senator, Franca Afegbua is dead. She died on Sunday.

NIS hands over victims of human trafficking to NAPTIP in Sokoto

NewsDeskNgMar 12, 2023March 12, 20230

Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has handed over eleven (11) Libya bound Human Trafficking victims to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, in Sokoto State. In a press release issued Sunday by the Service Public Relations Officer, CIS Tony Akuneme, the Comptroller of Immigration, Illela Border...

Ex-Boko Haram Fighter, Traditional Ruler, 35 Others Arrested For Drug Trafficking

NewsDeskNgMar 12, 2023March 12, 20230

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday disclosed the arrest of ex-boko haram fighter, traditional ruler, and 35 others for drug trafficking The Commision made this known in a statement released on their Facebook page. Part of the statement read, “ As NDLEA intercepts heroin, skunk in deep freezers,...

Group Appeals Buhari To Release Nnamdi Kanu, Urges Igbo Leaders, UN To Intervene

NewsDeskNgMar 12, 2023March 12, 20230

The Abia State Chapter of Congress of Civil Society Groups have appealed to Nigerian President, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari ( Rtd) to release the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Department of State Services (DSS) detention facility. A group in a statement which was signed...