Three Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of Zenith Bank at Tafawa Balewa road in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State were gutted by fire on Tuesday. The incident was confirmed by the State Fire Service in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, on Tuesday in Kano. Mr Abdullahi said that the…
Nigeria’s number one man, President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to suspend Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The Director of Media and Publicity to Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, Bayo Onanuga, made the call over the continued naira scarcity. Onanuga said Emefiele should not be occupying the office of the…
The Lebanese currency has crashed to a new low exchanging 100,000 Lebanese pound to $1. The historic low against the dollar happened on the parallel market on Tuesday. The latest setback has plunged most of the population into poverty. Officially pegged at 15,000 to the dollar, the pound was trading at 100,000 against the greenback,…
The federal government has disclosed that during the February 25th presidential and national assembly elections, 12,988,978 cyberattacks were recorded in the nation’s cyberspace. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami, who disclosed this, said on elections day alone over 6.9 million attacks were recorded. Pantami said the attacks were successfully blocked owing…
The Russian government has reportedly sent women prisoners to the front line in Ukraine for the first time to make up for heavy losses. The Ukrainian army has claimed President Vladimir Putin has sought ‘alternative sources of replenishment of manpower’ due to ‘heavy losses’ in the war. It added: ‘Last week there was a movement…
Bandits have demanded a fresh N2 million ransom and two motorcycles to release a woman and her daughter abducted from the Janjala community in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna state. It was reported that the bandits on February 5, 2023, invaded the victims’ residence and whisked away the woman, Shamsiya, his husband, Mustapha, and…
At least five people were killed and 11 others, including a regional governor, wounded in a suicide attack on Tuesday in southern Somalia, a police commander told AFP. A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a guest house hosting government officials in Bardera, 450 kilometers (279 miles) west of Mogadishu, area police commander Hussein Adan,…
Mr Felix Akpan, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), was found dead with multiple stab injuries at his 181 Duke Town close residence, behind Mega Hilton Hotel, Calabar the Cross River state capital. A source told Vanguard that Prof. Akpan, a former dean of Students affairs in UNICAL allegedly had…
Fire has razed some makeshift shops and the upper building of the old Savannah Bank at Singer market in Kano State. Spokesperson of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said that the fire started at about 02:18a.m, on Monday, March 13, 2023. “We received a distress call…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on March 11 rescued a journalist, Oduneye Olusegun, who was kidnapped by some gunmen in the Mobalufon area of Ijebu Ode on March 9. The journalist, who was coming from Abeokuta was kidnapped in the Mobalufon area in his Toyota Camry car at about 7:50 pm. The abductors…