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,…
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, has granted leave to the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election. On Tuesday, Mr Tinubu approached the Court of Appeal, seeking leave to obtain the election…
Checks at some banks in Abuja on Wednesday revealed that customers thronged banks to collect the notes while some rejected them. Ifeanyi Udenna, a customer who collected the old N1,000 notes from First Bank, said he accepted them because they were issued to him by a commercial bank, People Gazette reports. ”Although we have not…
Naira on Monday exchanged at N461.33 to a dollar at the Investors and Exporters window. The rate represented an increase of 0.09 per cent, compared to the N461.75 for which it exchanged to the dollar before the close of business on Friday. The open indicative rate closed at N461.50 to the dollar on Monday. An…
Few days to Saturday’s election, the Ebonyi State Police Command has declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Bernard Odoh, wanted in connection with the murder of the traditional ruler of Omege Umuezokoha in Ezza North local government area, Ezeogo Igboke Ewa. Others wanted by the police over the incident…
