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Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi made this known in a statement on Saturday. It was reported that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba has ordered the posting and redeployment of 21 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) to various Departments, Commands, and Formations. This online newspaper understands that Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi made this known in a ...

Bandits have abducted over 80 children in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. According to BBC Hausa, the children, between the ages of 12 and 17, were kidnapped on Friday morning. Parents of the victims said they were in the bush in the early hours when the assailants rounded them up and marched them away into the forest. Bandits ...

Bandits have abducted over 80 children in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. According to BBC Hausa, the children, between the ages of 12 and 17, were kidnapped on Friday morning. Parents of the victims said they were in the bush in the early hours when the assailants rounded them up and marched them away into the forest. Bandits ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has urged Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss the application filed by Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, seeking to vacate the interim forfeiture order in respect of 14 properties and the sum of N400 million. The court had, on February 22, 2023, granted a preservation ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to carry out nationwide protest in two weeks if the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) fails to find… The congress had last week said that it would begin an indefinite strike and picket all branches of the Central Bank of Nigeria across the country. But the apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, in an ...

The federal government has shifted the 2023 population and housing census earlier scheduled for March 29. The exercise will now hold in May. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, announced the development on Wednesday at the end of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes remain legal tender until December 31, 2023. Isa Abdulmumin, CBN spokesperson, announced the development in a statement on Monday. “In compliance with the established tradition of obedience to court orders and sustenance of the Rule of Law Principle that characterized the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the Supreme Court judgement on the issue of the old N500 and N1,000 currency notes, saying that at no time did he instruct the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) or the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor to disobey the court order. The President said it was not in his character to ask ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has postponed the date for its 2023 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB rescheduled the mock UTME from Thursday, March 16, to Thursday, March 30, 2023. Fabian Benjamin, the spokesman of JAMB, explained that the shift in date was partly due to the change in the date for the gubernatorial and State ...

The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to a story published in The Nation newspaper of Monday, March 13, 2023 edition, alleging that the Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele has launched a “fresh plot against President-elect”. The aforementioned story went further to allege that the Governor has made certain amount of money available to a political ...