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  • No Extension On February 10th Deadline For Naira Swap, Says CBN Governor, Emefiele

    . No Extension On February 10th Deadline For Naira Swap, Says CBN Governor, Emefiele

     The Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele on Friday insisted that the apex bank will not extend the deadline for swapping old naira notes with the newly redesigned ones.He made this known during a special briefing at the CBN office in Lagos, saying that the CBN and other stakeholders are already looking addressing areas where there are pr
  • One Reportedly Killed, Two Hospitalised As Protesters Clash With Security Agents In Ibadan

    . One Reportedly Killed, Two Hospitalised As Protesters Clash With Security Agents In Ibadan

     One person was reportedly killed in the Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Saturday when protesters clashed with security agents.DAILY POST was told that two persons were also injured in the incident at the Dogo area of Apata and have been hospitalised.The clash is barely 24 hours after protests rocked some parts of Ibadan.Some protes
  • ‘My Wife Killed My First Child. There Is A Shrine In Her Room’ - Man Tells Customary Court

    .. ‘My Wife Killed My First Child. There Is A Shrine In Her Room’ - Man Tells Customary Court

     An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Thursday dissolved a 23-year-old marriage between Isiaka Odeyemi and his wife, Feyisola Olapeju.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the marriage was dissolved on grounds of incessant fighting deeply rooted in fetish threats with charms and no rest of mind by the wife.Odeyemi said his wife was occultic and
  • Details Of Terrorism Allegations SSS Levelled Against Godwin Emefiele – Premium Times

    . Details Of Terrorism Allegations SSS Levelled Against Godwin Emefiele – Premium Times

     The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been funding “unknown gunmen” and members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the State Security Service (SSS) has alleged in court documents newly obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.The documents provide, for the first time, the missing details of the terrorism fin
  • "Nigeria Owes Debt That Could Build 160 Kainji Dams" - Peter Obi

    .. "Nigeria Owes Debt That Could Build 160 Kainji Dams" - Peter Obi

     Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate in this month’s presidential election in Nigeria says the nation owed a debt that could build 160 Kainji Dams.Nigeria’s current debt profile stood at N44. 06 trillion  as of September 2022.Obi, in a tweet, said Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa borrowed $82m to build Kai
  • "How Wike Deceived Other G-5 Governors By Faking Support For Peter Obi" - PDP

    .. "How Wike Deceived Other G-5 Governors By Faking Support For Peter Obi" - PDP

     Bwala said Wike had deceitfully created a public impression that he was supporting Labour Party's Obi.A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala, has alleged that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, was deceiving his four other colleagues in the G-5 group.Recall that Wike is the defacto spokesm
  • Kenyan-American, Elkanah Kibet Wins 2023 Lagos City Marathon; Goes Home With $50,000 Prize Tag

    . Kenyan-American, Elkanah Kibet Wins 2023 Lagos City Marathon; Goes Home With $50,000 Prize Tag

     Kenyan-American Elkanah Kibet has won the 8th Access Bank Lagos City Marathon with a time of 2:14:00.He overtook meet record holder and former race leader David Bamasai at the 26km mark to clinch the 2023 Lagos City Marathon.Kibet has thus won the $50,000 prize tag for the Marathon.The Marathon took off from National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos an te
  • "Why I Removed Aubameyang From Chelsea's Champions League Squad" – Graham Potter

    .. "Why I Removed Aubameyang From Chelsea's Champions League Squad" – Graham Potter

     Chelsea manager, Graham Potter, has given reasons why Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was left out of his updated Champions League squad.According to him, Aubameyang’s omission wasn’t down to anything that the striker had done wrong.Aubameyang will not face his former club Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16.Instead, three of Chelsea’s January si
  • Port Harcourt Court Sentences Two Ex-SARS Officers To Death By Hanging For Murder

    .. Port Harcourt Court Sentences Two Ex-SARS Officers To Death By Hanging For Murder

     Two former members of the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, to death by hanging by a High Court in Port Harcourt.They were sentenced to death for extra-judicial killing.Five members of the Anti Robbery Squad, Shedrack Ibibo, ASP Samuel Chigbu, Magus Awuri, Olisa Emeka and Ogoligo, were standing trial for the murder of Michael Igwe,and Mi
  • Six Internet Fraudsters Arrested By Operatives Of EFCC In Benue State

    . Six Internet Fraudsters Arrested By Operatives Of EFCC In Benue State

     Six suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in Benue State.The suspects who were nabbed at their hideout in Makurdi by the zonal command were identified as Dominic Onea, Daniel Ikwe, Samuel Godwin, John Sule Godwin, David Onaja Egwe and Oche Patrick.Their arrest followed
  • Everton v Arsenal: English Premier League Match, Team News, Goal Scorers and Stats

    . Everton v Arsenal: English Premier League Match, Team News, Goal Scorers and Stats

     Date: Saturday 4th February, 2023 Time : 1:30 pm Stadium  Goodison Park Referee   David Coote (England) Goal Scorer: Team News [size=14pt] Everton [/size]Everton manager Dyche will definitely be without the services of Andros Townsend and Nathan Patterson for his first game in charge, while James Garner is still nursing a bac
  • PHOTOS: Two Men Caught Selling Counterfiet of The Newly Redesigned N1000 Notes in Enugu

    . PHOTOS: Two Men Caught Selling Counterfiet of The Newly Redesigned N1000 Notes in Enugu

     Police Operatives serving in Igbo-Eze South Division of Enugu State Command, on Thursday, February 2, have arrested one Joseph Chinenye aged 39 and Onyeka Kenneth Ezeja aged 29, both male and respectively of Iheakpu-Awka in Igbo-Eze South LGA and Onicha Enugu-Ezike in Igbo-Eze North LGA,for allegedly being in possession of suspected counterfeited
  • Allow Old And New Naira Notes to Co-exist - APC Governors Beg President Buhari

    . Allow Old And New Naira Notes to Co-exist - APC Governors Beg President Buhari

     Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the old and new naira notes co-exist to ease the suffering of Nigerians.Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who spoke to some journalists in Hausa language on Friday, said that while the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mopped up o
  • NBC Imposes N2m Fine on Arise TV, TVC Over Alleged Breach of Broadcasting Code

    . NBC Imposes N2m Fine on Arise TV, TVC Over Alleged Breach of Broadcasting Code

     The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)  has imposed N2 million fines on Arise News and  TVC  for alleged breach of national broadcasting codes in the countdown to the 2023 general election.The Director General, NBC Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, announced the punishment in separate letters he wrote to the management of the affected orga
  • Blame Tinubu For Naira Scarcity in Nigeria - Atiku Blows Hot

    . Blame Tinubu For Naira Scarcity in Nigeria - Atiku Blows Hot

     The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the one behind naira scarcity.Atiku’s campaign also described Tinubu as the real enemy of Nigerians insisting that
  • Police IG Orders Arrest of Any Persons Selling, Rejecting or Spraying Naira Notes

    . Police IG Orders Arrest of Any Persons Selling, Rejecting or Spraying Naira Notes

     The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the arrest and subsequent prosecution of all individuals engaged in the sale or abuse of the naira notes issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).A statement released by the spokesperson of the police force, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, says the directive is in furtherance of the Fe
  • Man United Set to Splash At Least £90m to Sign-in Napoli & Nigerian Striker Victor Osimhen

    .. Man United Set to Splash At Least £90m to Sign-in Napoli & Nigerian Striker Victor Osimhen

     Manchester United will have to pay at least £90million if they are to sign Napoli and Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen.United will be looking to land a forward in the summer transfer window following the acrimonious departure of Cristiano Ronaldo.Osimhen is currently one of the most sought-after strikers following his fine form for Napoli and
  • I'll Decide in 7 Days - President Buhari Appeals to Nigerians on Currency Redesign

    . I'll Decide in 7 Days - President Buhari Appeals to Nigerians on Currency Redesign

     The President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, urged citizens to give him seven days to resolve the cash crunch that has become a problem across the country from the Central Bank of Nigeria policy to change high-value naira notes with new ones.Speaking to the Progressive Governors’ Forum who paid him a visit at the Presidential Villa to seek solutio
  • ICPC Burst in on FCMB Bank In Oshogbo For Preventing ATM Machine From Dispensing Cash

    . ICPC Burst in on FCMB Bank In Oshogbo For Preventing ATM Machine From Dispensing Cash
  • Supreme Court Affirms Agbu As Taraba PDP Governor Candidate

    . Supreme Court Affirms Agbu As Taraba PDP Governor Candidate

     The ligations challenging the candidacy of Col. Kefas Agbu (rtd) as the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Taraba State, have been squashed by the Supreme Court on Friday. One of the governorship aspirants, Prof. Jerome Nyameh, had instituted a case against Kefas challenging the process that brought him as the candidate of the part
  • Protesters Attack Oyo Governor's Office Over Current Hardship In The Country

    . Protesters Attack Oyo Governor's Office Over Current Hardship In The Country

     Oyo youths protesting against the hardship in the country have attacked the governor’s office in Agodi area of Ibadan. This is coming barely 22 days before the general elections. The youths and residents in their numbers stormed the streets of Ibadan, on Friday, to protest the current state of the nation. Nigerians have been contending with fuel
  • NNPP Chairman. Maikano Umar In Gombe Defects To APC

    . NNPP Chairman. Maikano Umar In Gombe Defects To APC

     The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) chairman in Gombe State has joined the All Progressives Congress. NNPP Gombe State Chairman, Maikano Umar dumped the party on Friday. Umar was learnt to have made the announcement of his defection when he visited the state governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya at his residence on Friday. It was gathered that some e
  • Two Ex-SARS Officers Sentenced To Death For Murder

    . Two Ex-SARS Officers Sentenced To Death For Murder

     Two former members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad have been sentenced to death by a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt for extra-judicial killing. Recall that five members of the SARS team, ASP Samuel Chigbu, Shedrack Ibibo, Magus Awuri, Ogoligo, and Olisa Emeka were standing trial for killing Michael Akor and Michael Igwe, while in
  • FG Deploys Over 120 DSS Officers In Abuja To Stop Fuel Smuggling

    . FG Deploys Over 120 DSS Officers In Abuja To Stop Fuel Smuggling

     The Federal Government has sent over 120 Department of State Services, DSS, officers in Abuja. The reason is to checkmate the smuggling of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol. The Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, and the Chief Executive of Nigerian Midstream and Downstream P
  • A Governor Collected N500m New Notes From One Bank – El-Rufai

    . A Governor Collected N500m New Notes From One Bank – El-Rufai

     Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has stated that a serving governor withdrew N500 million worth of new naira notes from a bank. He made the shocking revelation during an interview with BBC Hausa. According to the Kaduna State Governor, politicians who are targets of the naira redesign policy already have their way. The Governor of the Central
  • Soldiers Invade UNIBEN At Night, Destroy Vehicles, Injure Many (Photos)

    . Soldiers Invade UNIBEN At Night, Destroy Vehicles, Injure Many (Photos)

     It has been learnt that soldiers that clashed with students of the University of Benin returned at night and in the morning of Friday to beat the hell out of unarmed civilians, destroying several vehicles. Lecturers and students were injured in the incident that happened at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ugbowo main campus. Recall that we had r
  • We Are Delighted That Starlink Is Now In Nigeria - President Muhammadu Buhari

    . We Are Delighted That Starlink Is Now In Nigeria - President Muhammadu Buhari

     President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed happiness after Elon Musk's Starlink launched its services in Nigeria. Buhari in a Twitter post, said the move should be applauded. He wrote: "We are delighted that Starlink services have been deployed in Nigeria, making us the first African country — and the only one so far — to enjoy this r
  • Senior Police Officer Under Investigation For Forcing A Married Junior Officer To Have S3x

    . Senior Police Officer Under Investigation For Forcing A Married Junior Officer To Have S3x

     The police have launched an investigation on Chief Inspector Cuthbert Gwidi, the officer-in-charge of the Police Band Department in Zimbabwe for allegedly forcing a married female subordinate to have s3xual intercourse with him. Gwidi is accused of forcing the 44-year-old band dancer to sleep with him since 2017 and also threatening her with a sac
  • Panic As Gunmen Go Wild, Kill Judge During Court Session In Imo

    . Panic As Gunmen Go Wild, Kill Judge During Court Session In Imo

     Nnaemeka Ugboma, the chairman of Ejemekwuru Customary Court in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, has been killed. He was murdered by gunmen on Thursday. He was killed by gunmen who operated in motorcycles, while presiding a court session, The Nation correspondent was told by close sources. The incident brought the court sitting to an a
  • Now N1k Per Litre — Delta Laments Petrol Price Hike, Sets Up Team To Monitor Distribution

    . Now N1k Per Litre — Delta Laments Petrol Price Hike, Sets Up Team To Monitor Distribution

     The Delta State Government has reacted to the fuel scarcity scorching the residents of the state. The government says it will monitor the distribution of petrol from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited delivery points to outlets in the state. The state government, on Thursday, said the mechanism put in place will ensure that the

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  3. Aisha Buhari Shares El-Rufai’s Video Claiming Aso Villa Elements Working Against Tinubu

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