Property worth millions of naira were burnt down in Idanre community in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday evening, when a tanker carrying petrol fell and caught fire. It was gathered that the fire razed down the filling station and a building beside was also affected. However no life was reportedly lost…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has appealed to residents to remain calm, even in the face of the difficulties and frustrations due to cash shortage. Sanwo-Olu made the appeal while addressing journalists at Lagos House, Marina, on the current situation caused by the naira redesign in the country. He urged Lagos residents to avoid…
Bashir Ahmad, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital Communication, has dared Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State to take his old naira notes to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, if hey are legitimate. On Friday, Ahmad was replying to Ganduje, who faulted the naira redesign policy and described it as…
A former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed the call for his arrest by incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki, saying his successor has no right to give such an order. The two political gladiators have been at odds for years, a feud that led to Obaseki, elected in 2016 on the platform of the…
The body of ex-Chelsea and Newcastle winger, Christian Atsu has been found in the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey. Atsu’s agent, Nana Sechere confirmed and disclosed this on his Twitter handle as reported by Sky News on Saturday. He wrote, “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to announce to all…
Five political parties have collapsed their structures into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and thrown weight behind the party’s flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar. They are the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Action Alliance (AA), Action Peoples Party (APP), National Rescue Movement (NRM), and the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The parties disclosed their decision at the grand…
The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old boy for allegedly conniving with five others to abduct his mother and three others and collecting the sum of N30m as ransom. The state police spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu, while addressing journalists in Gusau, the state capital, on Friday, said the suspect, Thomas Yau, informed the…
Ten states have asked the supreme court to declare the new directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, reintroducing the old N200 notes and declaring old N500 and N1,000 notes as unconstitutional. On Thursday, the President said he directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to recirculate only the old N200 notes. This is after the apex court…
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has said that he had met the commercial banks and given them directives on how to make the old N200 naira notes available to Nigerians. Emefiele said this in a video clip recently posted on the CBN official Twitter handle while addressing journalists after his…
In a direct challenge to the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has asked residents of the state to accept the old N500 and N1000 notes as legal tender. Mr El-Rufai gave the directive in a broadcast to residents of the state on Thursday night. During the broadcast, Mr…
