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  • Naira crisis: Don’t shift polls, parties tell INEC

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Naira crisis: Don’t shift polls, parties tell INEC

    INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The recent alarm raised by the Independent National Electoral Commission over the challenges the new naira policy would pose to its mobilisation of workers and logistics has elicited fear from […]

  • Amaechi absent at Tinubu Rivers rally

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Amaechi absent at Tinubu Rivers rally

    The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, was on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in continuation of his campaign ahead of next week’s presidential poll. At the rally was the National […]

  • New naira: Obaseki, CBN, PoS operators strategise on cash disbursement

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on New naira: Obaseki, CBN, PoS operators strategise on cash disbursement

    Photo credit: Edo state Media The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, met with officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and members of the Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents of […]

  • Banks lose N5bn to destruction on facilities over naira scarcity

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Banks lose N5bn to destruction on facilities over naira scarcity

    The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions has revealed that banks have lost the sum of N5 billion across the nation, following recent attacks and destruction of bank facilities. The President […]

  • Ronaldo awarded $300,000 legal fees compensation after rape case dismissal

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Ronaldo awarded $300,000 legal fees compensation after rape case dismissal

    Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was, on Tuesday, reimbursed over $300,000 for legal fees he spent while defending himself in a federal civil case alleging he had raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel […]

  • Secret to my speed is fufu, says Dortmund’s Adeyemi

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Secret to my speed is fufu, says Dortmund’s Adeyemi

    Dortmund’s German forward Karim Adeyemi (C) gets through to have a shot on goal but fails to score during the UEFA Champions League, first-leg, round of 16 football match BVB Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea FC, […]

  • Norway approves $7bn aid package for Ukraine

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Norway approves $7bn aid package for Ukraine

    Norwegian parties on Thursday backed an aid package worth 75 billion Norwegian kroner ($7.4 billion) for Ukraine to be spread out over five years. All parties in the Storting, Norway’s parliament, backed the plan that […]

  • New naira: Nigerians urge banks to dispense N100, N50 notes

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on New naira: Nigerians urge banks to dispense N100, N50 notes

    As the effects of the current cash crunch bite harder, Nigerians have called  on the Central Bank of Nigeria to prevail on commercial banks to dispense N100 and N50 notes to Nigerians. They made the […]

  • Russia fires dozens of missiles at Ukraine overnight – Official

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Russia fires dozens of missiles at Ukraine overnight – Official

    This handout picture taken and released by the Ukraine’s State Emergency Service on June 27, 2022 shows rescuers working in a mall hit by a Russian missile strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk. […]

  • Naira redesign ill-advised, shun violent reactions – Kwankwaso tells Nigerians

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Naira redesign ill-advised, shun violent reactions – Kwankwaso tells Nigerians

    The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso, has insisted that the Naira redesign policy was ill-advised and timed. Kwankwaso disclosed this in a statement posted on his verified Twitter handle on Thursday. […]

  • UK warns citizens in Nigeria to avoid banks, ATMs, 23 states

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on UK warns citizens in Nigeria to avoid banks, ATMs, 23 states

    The United Kingdom has issued another travel advice to its citizens in Nigeria, the second in four months. In the information updated on Wednesday, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO, warned against areas where […]

  • Army denies soldiers burnt police station after colleague’s death 

    By Ifunanya | February 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Army denies soldiers burnt police station after colleague’s death 

    Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya …Killer cop in Army custody The Nigerian Army has denied soldiers burnt a police station in the Ogijo community on Wednesday to avenge the death of their colleague. Some residents […]

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