Members of a syndicate of currency racketeers hoarding and trading in the redesigned Naira notes in Abuja have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the operations were carried out in Zone 4 and Dei Dei axis of the Federal Capital Territory between Saturday and Monday….
President Muhammadu Buhari has talked about the myriad of problems Nigeria has. The President on Monday said no single government can solve Nigeria’s problems. Buhari said the country can only be out of the woods through the efforts of various successive governments. The President said this during the state of the national dialogue on security,…
A son has thrown his father inside a well during a fight over land. The 60-year-old man is now fighting for his life at Longisa County Referral Hospital after spending three days inside the 20 feet well his son threw him into. Samuel Tanui from Emitiot sub-location, Chepalungu Sub-County, Bomet County, Kenya, was thrown into…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, and three of his officers are to face contempt charges before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over their continued disobedience and disregard to the lawful order of the Court. A High Court of the FCT judiciary had on December 14, 2022, restrained…
Residents of Benin City, the Edo State capital, today Monday, January 30. trooped out to the streets as they protested the protracted fuel scarcity and hike in the price of petroleum products in the state. The angry residents erected burnfires on some roads in Benin city, the state capital. In a video making the rounds…
The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has intercepted some syndicates in parts of the country for allegedly selling the newly redesigned Naira notes. This was contained in a statement issued by the agency’s Public Relations Officer of the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, on Monday in Abuja. He said the syndicates were intercepted by…
Two gunmen opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday at the weekend in a township in South Africa, killing eight and wounding three others. The mass shooting was carried out by two attackers and occurred between 5:15 and 5:30 p.m. (1515 and 1530 GMT) on Sunday at a house in Kwazakele, Gqeberha,…
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has lambasted the federal government for keeping silent after herdsmen were killed in an airstrike. Recall it was reported earlier that over 40 herders and butchers were killed by an alleged military drone fire on January 25 in Rukubi village, Doma, Nasarawa state. According to MACBAN, the…
Popular Nigerian singer, Paul Okoye has taken a swipe at the Nigerian Senate for seeking the extension of the deadline of the Naira notes swap. Worried by the scarcity of the newly redesigned notes to common Nigerians, the Senate recently called for the extention of the deadline for the swapping of the Naira notes to…
Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has said that he wonders how Africans were managed to be convicted by the whites that polygamy is a sin while homos3xuality is a human right. In a post shared on his Instagram page, the monarch described this thought process as a big joke to the world. Read his…