A construction engineer, Samuel Oladele, has filed a fundamental human rights suit against the Inspector-General of Police, Commissioner of Police General Investigation Section ‘D’ Department, DCP. Sheik M. Danko, (Officer in Charge) Team “C” and General Investigation Section Dy ‘department: (Force CIID) annex, Alagbon close, Ikoyi, Lagos over alleged threat to his life Others in…
Residents of Abeokuta, Akure and Benin City, on Tuesday, expressed their anger in protests that paralysed socio-economic activities in Abeokuta and on the Benin-Ore highway. They protested the prolonged naira and fuel crisis facing the nation. News providers reported that irate youths shut down many parts of Ogun State capital as banks abruptly closed their…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has temporarily halted the move by the Federal government to ban the use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes as legal tenders from February 10. The Supreme court gave the order while delivering judgment in the exparte application filed before it by the Kaduna, Zamfara, and Kogi state…
Godwin Emiefele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says CBN will not allow itself to be used to fru$trate the forthcoming general elections. Emefiele spoke on Tuesday, February 7, during a meeting with Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the CBN headquarters in Abuja. Speaking at the…
An operations manager of a leading commercial bank in the Abuja central area was on Monday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, for refusing to load the Automated Teller Machines of the bank despite having N29m of the redesigned naira notes in the branch’s vaults, News Providers reports. Before he was whisked away…
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court has restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from extending the deadline on the use of old naira notes. The apex bank on January 29 extended the deadline for the withdrawal of the old naira notes from circulation to February 10. Delivering a ruling on Monday, February 6,…
The Director-General of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Sola Obadimu, says the Central Bank of Nigeria should have introduced a N5,000 note rather than redesigning the old notes. Obadimu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday. He said while the new policy…
The Association of Resident Doctors, Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital branch said the Bayelsa State Government has refused to do anything about the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the Nigerian Medical Association on August 14, 2020, to domesticate and implement the Medical Residency Training Act, which led to the suspension of its strike in…
