Abuja Reporters

The managing director of the Yobe Micro Finance Bank, Sheriff Almuhajir, has alleged that the sum of N4.3 billion approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for banks in…

Temitayo Jaiyeola, Sami Olatunji, Edidiong Ikpoto, Anozie Egole and Uthman Salami   As the naira scarcity persists, some banks are shutting their branches over rising customer attacks, according to findings…

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu Friday Olokor, Okechukwu Nnodim, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, Stephen Angbulu, Gift Habib, Adeyinka Adedipe, Daud Olatunji, Peter Dada and Tunde Oyekola With about 16 days to…

Buhari and Tinubu By Dirisu Yakubu   Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is fighting a battle of his life. The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai,…

As part of ongoing efforts at ensuring that commercial banks comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) directive on the distribution of the redesigned Naira note, operatives of the Independent…

A political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, on Tuesday said that politicians from various parties were lobbying officials of the Labour Party with millions of naira to facilitate their defection before…

Fanen Ihyongo, Kano Kano Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has lamented elements of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election are regrouping and dangerously masquerading in the prevailing crisis generated by the cash…

  WIA DIS FOTO COME FROM,EMMANUELLA ADOLISA/INSTAGRAM Members of St. John’s Catholic Church Rumuolumeni for Iwofe, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, southern Nigeria dey in shock afta dem discover say di…

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emiefele has said that the apex will not allow itself to be used to frustrate the forthcoming general elections. Emiefele, who…

Funke Akindele and her mum By Samuel Bolaji The mother of Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, is dead. She died on Tuesday. Funke’s older sister, Olubunmi Akindele, announced their mother’s death in…

For the second time in one day, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has lost corruption cases in court. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Abuja, has…

Udora Orizu writes that members of the House of Representatives are putting relevant stakeholders on their toes, as they commence investigation into whistle-blower’s allegation of illegal sale of 48 million…

L-R: Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), Group Executive Director,  BUA Group, Kabiru Rabiu, and Minister for State (Works &…

The Minister of Information Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday accused opposition parties of stifling the efforts by the federal government to reduce the pains caused by the cash swap policy. The…

Some Civil Society organizations and residents of Benin city have blocked the entrance gate to the Central Bank of Nigeria as a reaction to the continued none availability of Naira…

By Peter Moses Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, has been thrown into chaos as angry youths blocked some roads, set bonfire and destroyed political billboards in protest against new notes scarcity.…

…reintroduce tally numbers for customers With the lingering shortage of new notes showing no sign of abating, thus fuelling anger among Nigerians, some banks in the country have started taking measures…

STANLEY OSARIEMEN   Jide Omokore A federal high court in Abuja has acquitted and discharged Jide Omokore, chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, of fraud allegations. Omokore was…

STANLEY OSARIEMEN Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, on Tuesday met with Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), over the scarcity of naira notes in the country. Also…

Say he asked victim to lie he was cousin to his daughter. A Nigerian senator and his wife plotted to bring a poor street trader to the UK to harvest…