Residents of Akenfa community, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday, took to the streets to protest the continued rejection of the old N500 and N1000 notes by traders in the state. The protesters, made up of mostly women, youths and a handful of men, displayed placards with various inscriptions including “Bank…
Oluwaseun Osinbajo, the driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus that was involved in the incident that led to a train colliding with the bus at the PWD/ Shogunle railway line, on the Agege motor road in Lagos, on Thursday, has asked families of victims for forgiveness. The driver, however, blamed the incident on…
President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed Saheed Aderinto, the US-based Nigerian professor, who won the Dan David history prize of $300,000. Aderinto, a professor of History and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, is the first Nigerian to win the prize. He was among the nine scholars who clinched the award considered as the largest…
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction and sentencing of 37 Internet fraudsters to various terms of imprisonment, fines, and community service. The convicts were prosecuted before Justices Mohammed Owolabi, Ladiran Akintola and Mojeed Ishola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan; Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje, A.A. Babawale,…
The Kogi State Government on Friday ordered the arrest and prosecution of individuals and businesses rejecting the old naira notes. A statement by Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo congratulated Nigerians on the “historic ruling of the Supreme Court”. The apex court last week ruled that both the old and new naira notes remain legal tenders…
Ahead of the governorship election rescheduled for March 18, the Labour Party (LP) in Ogun State, has endorsed and adopted the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate and the incumbent governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun for another term of four years in office. Speaking when he led the state executive members of the Labour…
Desmond Elliot has apologised to the Nigerian youth, saying the “hate I receive is so much.” In 2020, the lawmaker was criticised after he declared that he “is a product of political godfatherism.” Also, following the shooting of protesters at the Lekki toll gate in the same year, a video of Elliot referring to #EndSARS…
Prof Akin Abayomi, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, said 32 patients rescued from Thursday’s collision of a train and a staff bus in the Ikeja area of the state had been discharged. Abayomi disclosed this while addressing journalists at a Friday press conference at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). The commissioner added…
Imo State Police Command has uncovered a church used as a baby factory along the MCC/Uratta Road. The police stormed the Jesus Life Assembly church on Thursday after the tactical unit received intel regarding a citizen, Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku. The 18-year-old girl from Umudurualaoka in Mbaitoli Local Government Area was reported missing on May 23…
The Chief Imam of Nurul Yaqeen Jumma’at Mosque Life Camp, Abuja, Sheikh Yahya Al-Yolawi, on Friday called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to release more redesigned naira notes as the months of Ramadan is fast approaching. Al-Yolawi made the plea while delivering his Jumma’at sermon, titled, “The Significance of Ramadan Fast: Health, Spiritual,…
