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…
The Kogi State branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered individuals with less than N500,000 to visit their various banks to exchange them with new naira notes. Checks at bank offices located at Hassan Katsina Road, Zone 8 in Lokoja revealed those with less than 500,000 were advised to visit their banks, Nigerian…
President Muhammadu Buhari, again, met with the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday. The meeting, reportedly held at the Residence inside the Villa, before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, according to reliable sources. Though the reason for the meeting could…
A Lagos state High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday ordered convicted billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, to refund the sum of €233,000, ransom he coercively collected from one of his kidnap victims, Chief Donatus Dunu. In addition, Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi ordered the convicted kidnapper to pay the sum of…
The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, says the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, is not fit for the position. The governor regretted that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), failed to sack Emefiele, after the CBN governor allegedly joined the presidential race. According to Akeredolu, a man who attempted to become President…
There was pandemonium at the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria, along Udo Udoma Avenue, Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State, as police operatives reportedly fired several canisters of teargas on hundreds of people, mainly depositors, who thronged the bank to deposit their old naira notes. People were seen scampering for safety during the…
