Owing to the policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria to redesign the N200, N500, and N1000 notes, the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) has reportedly banned farmers and fishermen from transacting in naira. According to a tweet by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, he said…
One person has died as a result of injuries sustained when a warehouse under construction collapsed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was gathered on Saturday that another person also sustained various degrees of injuries during the incident which happened in the Soka area of the state capital on Thursday night. The warehouse under…
Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Bureau FIB-IRT, have arrested four suspected members of a kidnap syndicate that abducted Mrs Hussana Adamu, the wife of a popular Rivers-based businessman eight months ago. Hussana Adamu was released a week later, after payment of N20 million ransom. Acting on credible information,…
The naira has appreciated against the dollar to exchange N730/$ on Friday at the black market. This is according to information from black market traders who spoke to Nairametrics. Just some days ago, naira exchanged N900/$1 leaving many Nigerians in a state of agony. Abu, a black market operator who resides in Lagos, said that…
In what will come across as a really startling development, a 16-year old teenager who simply gave his name as Precious has confessd to r*pe. He admitted to r*ping his brother’s wife and nine others. Precious, who was arrested for stealing 25 litres of palm oil, said his brother travelled when he carried out the…
Security Forces have neutralized a notorious bandit commander ‘Dogo Maikasuwa’ terrorizing communities in Kaduna State. The State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, November 11, 2022, shared a blurred photograph of the neutralized bandit leader. Aruwan said the development was made known in operational…
The police in Adamawa state apprehended a 32 years old man while using an ATM at an old generation bank along Bank road in yola North local government area on November 8. The suspect identified as Joseph Nwakibe, a native of Nnewi South Anambra state and resident of Makurdi, Benue state, was said to have been invited to Yola…
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu state has ordered the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID) Enugu to thoroughly investigate the case of alleged conspiracy and murder of a newborn male child (infanticide), by the mother of the child, Ada Joy Okonkwo aged 18, and her mother, one Christiana Okonkwo of about 60 years…
Gunmen suspected to be robbers attacked a bullion van in Ufuma, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Thursday evening, November 10. According to reports, the bullion van was conveying cash to an undisclosed location when the gunmen trailed them to the agrarian community of Ufuma, and opened fire on the truck and…
The naira is gaining strength, new reports have shown. The naira rebounded by 20.8 per cent to 720/dollar at the parallel market, findings by The PUNCH revealed. The development came two weeks after the local currency came under severe pressure at the black market, following the announcement by the Federal Government to redesign the naira….