ICPC busts FCMB officials flouting CBN directives on new notes in Osun
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Osun State Compliance Team, has busted some FCMB officials for allegedly sabotaging the...
Queues: CBN directs banks to start cash payment across the counters
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to commence the payment of the redesigned Naira notes over the...
No merger talks with Atiku, says Peter Obi’s Labour Party
The spokesman for the Peter Obi-Datti Baba-Ahmed Campaign Organization, Yunusa Tanko, says his principal is unaware of any alliance or ongoing talks for...
Teenager killed, another in critical condition as hoodlums petrol bombed INEC office in Anambra
With 24 days to the general elections, another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a Police station have been attacked...
I am in talks with Obi, Kwankwaso, one of them is set to step down – Atiku
Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has indicated that he is in talks with the Labour Party presidential...
Incessant truck accident: NPA slams drivers, to partner Lagos Govt, FRSC on safety standards
Worried by incessant truck accident parti in Lagos and the nation’s highways, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has expressed zero tolerance for violations...
Just in: DSS smashes syndicate selling new naira notes, indicts commercial banks
The Department of State Service (DSS) said on Monday that it has intercepted an undisclosed number of persons caught in the racketeering of...
Djokovic wins 10th Australian Open title at Rod Laver Arena
A year after being deported for being unvaccinated for COVID-19, Novak Djokovic returns roaring really hard at Melbourne, as he triumphed over Stefanos...
Surulere shooting: Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu withdraws from debate with candidate of party involved
The Lagos State Government has condemned the broad daylight shooting witnessed in the Surulere axis of Lagos on Saturday and vowed that the...
Old Naira notes: Buhari, CBN back down on Jan. 31 deadline, extend it till Feb.10
The nation’s Apex Bank, the Central Bank, has extended the deadline for the mopping up of old Naira notes from circulation earlier scheduled...
18-seater buses not suitable, safe for long distance trips — FRSC boss
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Dauda Biu, said on Friday in Abuja that 18-seater buses are not suitable and...
Old notes: Senate urges CBN to extend January 31st deadline by six months, Ebonyi Senator Egwu disagrees
One week to the deadline, the Senate has urged the Central Bank to extend the January 31st deadline for the deposit of old...
Train derailment: Panic-stricken 148 passengers, 30 crew members rescued by NRC
No fewer than 148 fear-stricken and stranded passengers of the derailed Warri-Itakpe train of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) have been rescued and...
Again, defiant gunmen attack another INEC office in Southeast, kill policeman
Gunmen on Sunday night launched yet another deadly attack on lndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in the Southeast, this time on Enugu...
Just in: NDLEA busts drug kingpins escorted by “fake security agents”, impounds N5bn tramadol
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives, in a covert operation in Lagos at the weekend, busted a warehouse at Amuwo Odofin,...
Ex-Minister Alphonsus Nwosu renounces membership of PDP BoT
A former Health Minister in the ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, Prof Alphonsus Nwosu, has resigned as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), BoT...
