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Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has warned that some separatist agitators under the aegis of Oduduwa Nation are amassing weapons in an attempt to disrupt the February 25 and March 11 general elections in the Southwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The IGP disclosed this during a meeting with strategic police managers at […]
Continue ReadingThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reportedly announced that the old N200, N500 and N1000 ceased being legal tender since February 10, 2023. Though the Supreme Court had issued an order which restrained the apex bank from going on with the February 10 deadline until it rules on a case before it on February 15, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria and presided over by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, on Monday, February 13, ordered that Nigerian actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, who was arrested for tampering with the new Naira notes be remanded in Kirikiri prison custody pending the determination of her bail application. Omoseyin was arrested by operatives of […]
Continue ReadingOguta High Court building located in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria, was on Sunday night, February 12, bombed by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. According to reports, the gunmen arrived the court premises at about 11.30pm and attacked it. The Magistrate?s court registry, appeal court record office, file room, secretary to the high court […]
Continue Reading39-year-old Nigerian, Olaniyi Nasiru Ojikutu, has been sentenced to nearly seven and a half years in a United States prison for his role in a multi-year romance scheme. The US prosecutors said Ojikutu, a permanent legal resident of the United States, opened about 25 bank accounts in his own name, a fake name, and a […]
Continue ReadingA Northern leader, Buba Galadima has revealed that a serving governor stashed N22 billion old naira notes. The former National Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disclosed this during an interview on Trust TV’s Daily Politics. Galadima was asked a question on the Naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS), has invited a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential campaign council, Femi Fani-Kayode over allegations of a coup plot ahead of the February election. Confirming the invitation by the DSS in a statement on Monday, Fani-Kayode stated that he would be honouring the invitation this morning, Monday. […]
Continue ReadingA senior police officer and four other police personnel lost their lives on Saturday during a gun battle with bandits in Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. The Paiko Divisional Police Officer, SP Mukhtar Sabiu, was killed when he led his men to dislodge armed bandits who were sighted around Kwakuti-Dajigbe villages in […]
Continue ReadingA frustrated Nigerian man has called on his church to return the money he was made to pay in the name of investing in the Kingdom of heaven. The man explained in a video that, for years, his pastor used the Bible verse Matthew chapter 6 VS 19 – 21 to make him invest in […]
Continue ReadingAssistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 5, comprising Edo, Delta and Bayelsa states, Lawan Tanko Jimeta, is dead. He died Sunday morning at the Benin Teaching Hospital, Edo State after a brief illness. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bauchi State Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, in a terse Whatsapp message on […]
Continue ReadingAttorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, says the introduction of the naira redesign policy by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has significantly reduced the rate of kidnappings in the country. In a fresh interview with Radio Nigeria Kaduna, Malami said there were positive sides of the policy that were […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement released on Saturday, the Nigerian Supreme Court has reacted in anger to the attacks on its judges over the recent judgments and rulings they delivered, warning that those who had been “venting convoluted anger” were ignorant of the law. Recently, the apex court had delivered what many Nigerians thought were controversial verdicts […]
Continue ReadingMembers of the Obidient Movement have been attacked by suspected thugs and hoodlums while on their way to the rally of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, which took place at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Onikan, in Lagos. Report of attack of the Obidients was contained in a WhatsApp […]
Continue ReadingAward winning South African rapper, Kiernan Forbes, popularly known by his stage name, AKA, has been shot dead in Durban, South Africa on Friday, February 10. The rapper who was based in Johannesburg flew into Durban earlier Friday, February 10, for his birthday party which was scheduled to hold at Yugo Nightclub which he had […]
Continue ReadingPolice Command in Delta State, Nigeria, has said that the traditional ruler of Asamokwu community in the state, Obi Okwudiki Odumodu, was beheaded in a community crisis that resulted from a disagreement that erupted over the sharing formula of a derivation fund. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, stated […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Ogun State police command have arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of former CBN staff, Kehinde Fatinoye, his wife Bukola and their only son, Oreoluwa Fatinoye, at their residence in the Ibara area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria on December 31, 2022. Lekan Adekanbi, the prime suspect and driver to […]
Continue ReadingFormer Senator representing Kaduna Central, comrade Shehu Sani has shared his thoughts about the recent pushbacks against Naira swap policy instituted by the Central Bank of Nigeria. In a tweet he shared, Shehu Sani said the recent pushbacks are because politicians want to buy votes with available old notes. He tweeted: “They want to buy […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council (PTC) to oversee the 2023 transition programme. As Buhari signed Executive Order No.14 of 2023 on the Facilitation and Management of Presidential Transitions, a key feature of the order is the institutionalisation of a legal framework that would enable a seamless transition […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, arraigned Ali Bello, a nephew of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court Abuja. Bello was docked alongside Abba Adauda, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat, Rashida Bello (at large) on 18 count charge bordering on criminal […]
Continue ReadingAttorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has filed processes challenging the jurisdiction of the Nigerian Supreme Court to suspend the scheduled deadline of Naira swap and demonetization. Malami, in a preliminary objection he filed on behalf of the Federal Government, applied for an order striking out the suit that […]
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