Senators, Reps draw battle line with CBN over naira notes
•Lawmakers seek six-month extension •Tuesday deadline sacrosanct, apex bank insists The controversy over the January 31 phaseout deadline for old naira notes has not abated. Senators and House of Representatives members asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to grant a six-month extension and allow the redesigned notes to remain legal tenders alongside the new N1000, N500 and N200 bills. But, the apex...
Islamic teacher bags life jail for defiling eight pupils
One Adam Farouk, a cleric, has bagged eight times life in prison for molesting and sexually violating eight pupils. The cleric was convicted and sentenced by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday for defiling the pupils aged between six and 11 in his class. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the ingredients...
Pantami: FG Will Use 5G Technology to Tackle Insecurity
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said the federal government would use the 5G technology in tacking insecurity in the country. Pantami spoke Tuesday in Abuja at the official launch/roll out of 5G network service by MAFAB Communications. He said there were many economic benefits from the 5G technology and that government would leverage it to help...
Police Kill Three Suspected Kidnappers, Arrest Nine Others in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr. Paul Odama, has said that three suspected kidnappers have been killed while nine others were arrested at different operations in the state. Odama said that the trio were killed during a shooting encounter between the men of the command and the kidnappers at their hideout at Balogun area, Bode-sadu in Moro Local Government Council...
PDP begins court process to disqualify Tinubu
…Insists he’s ineligible to contest the presidential poll …Says $460,000 forfeiture nullifies Tinubu’s nomination …PDP lacks originality, always copying – APC PCC The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced court proceedings to disqualify the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over criminal conviction and sentencing by a court of competent jurisdiction in...
Nigeria on lookout of deadly Chinese flu – Minister
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says though the World Health Organisation and other world health bodies had not informed Nigeria of any deadly flu from China, the Federal Government is on the lookout for any occurrence. He said this on Monday in Abuja, during a ministerial bi-weekly meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the...
Kebbi: Customers throng banks, demand new naira notes
Some customers in Birnin Kebbi on Monday thronged banks to either deposit or receive money and expressed concerns over limited access to the new naira notes. Checks on different banks in Birnin Kebbi by the News Agency of Nigeria reveals that customers in their large numbers were sighted at different banks trying to gain access into the banks and Automated...
Excessive fast can damage kidney, says NAFDAC
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has said that excessive fast can lead to kidney problems. Adeyeye who said this on Monday while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja noted that using substandard, unwholesome products can also lead to kidney failure and death. The PUNCH reports that kidney failure happens after...
Petrol may hit N800/litre on subsidy removal – Marketers
As the scarcity of the Premium of Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, continued on Sunday, oil marketers have stated that the cost of the commodity would cross N800/litre once subsidy on PMS is removed. Industry operators had repeatedly stated that the high cost of subsidy on petrol was a burden on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and was contributory...
‘FUTA student accused of fraud left suicide note’
More facts have emerged on the death of a 300-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Oluwapelumi Olona, who allegedly committed suicide at his off-campus residence in the Aule area of Akure, Ondo State. The Industrial Design student allegedly hanged himself in his room. The President of the Students’ Union Government, FUTA, Jesunifemi Asoore, while speaking to one of...
