Day: February 15, 2023

JUST IN: Police Kills Soldier, Colleagues Burn Station, Armour Tank In Ogun

ADEOLA YUSUF

There is currently panic among parents and children in Ogijo,  Sagamu Local Government, Ogun State, after a Police officer allegedly killed a soldier during an altercation in the community. As gathered, the police officer, who was popularly called Mopol by residents, was said to have shot the soldiers after the public disagreement degenerated with both law enforcement officers’ threatening to kill each other. While the altercation intensified on Wednesday, the policeman was said to have reached out for his pistol and shot the soldier who was reported to have died.…

Read More

BREAKING: One Feared Dead as Police Resist Mob Attack on CBN Office

Abibat Babalola

One person was feared dead on Wednesday as a mob moved to attack the office of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Akpkpava Road in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Earlier reports had it that the mob protesting the scarcity of Naira had attacked several banks on the road. They destroyed some banks buildings and their Automated Teller Machines The protesters went on rampage following the scarcity occasioned by the redesign of the N200, N500 and N1,000 notes. The CBN had explained that over N2.7 trillion in circulation was…

Read More

Sanwo-Olu Warns Banks, Lagosians Against Rejection Of Old Naira Notes

Abibat Babalola

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has warned against the rejection of old Naira notes. The warning came on a day the Supreme Court declared the old Naira notes as still valid for business transactions. The followed the observation raised by the lawyer to the Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States Governments, Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN), at the Supreme Court in a case against the Attorney General of the Federation. The three states brought the case against the AGF following the hardship faced by Nigerians over the redesign of the N200, N500…

Read More

Supreme Court: Old Naira Notes Still Legal Tender

Abibat Babalola

The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the validity of the use of old 200, 500 and 1000 naira notes. The apex court maintained that the February 8 hearing which paused the implementation of the February 10 deadline ban on the use of old naira notes still subsists. The clarification from the court followed a complaint by Abdulhakeem Mustapha (SAN), lawyer to the Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states respectively. READ ALSO: Student Earns Doctorate 52 Years After Starting PhD Man Sent To Prison For Defiling Three Daughters, Assaulting Wife BREAKING: Supreme…

Read More

Student Earns Doctorate 52 Years After Starting PhD

Aoko Benjamin

Now a dad of two and grandfather of four, he started his undergraduate degree in Leeds in 1967.   A student has finally been awarded his doctorate more than 50 years after starting his PhD. Dr Nick Axten, 76, started his thesis on mathematical sociology at the University of Pittsburgh in the US in 1970. But after five years he returned to the UK with the PhD unfinished. The University of Bristol conferred him a Doctor of Philosophy in front of his wife Claire Axten and 11-year-old granddaughter Freya. He…

Read More

Man Sent To Prison For Defiling Three Daughters, Assaulting Wife

Ganiyu Amodu

A 35-year-old man, Femi Afolabi, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre by an Ikeja Magistrate Court for allegedly defiling his three daughters, all under 10, and assaulting their mother. The Magistrate, Ms. Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take Afolabi’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. She adjourned the case until March 7 for the DPP’s advice. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Supreme Court Adjourns Naira Swap Case To Feb. 22 BREAKING: PDP Govs Want To Be Joined in…

Read More

BREAKING: Supreme Court Adjourns Naira Swap Case To Feb. 22

Aliyu Aliyu

Case now to be heard three days to presidentsial elections + the political economy of the suit, which has now become APC Vs. PdP case The Supreme Court, again, on Wednesday adjourned hearing in a suit filed by Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States against the Federal Government seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The suit was initially adjourned by the apex court till today on February 8, 2023, with all parties involved present. The Governors of…

Read More

BREAKING: PDP Govs Want To Be Joined in Naira Swap Case

Aliyu Aliyu

THEIR NAMES, THEIR CASE: How the governors stormed Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to be a part of the case against the APC govs over Nigeria’s cash crisis     Two Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party: Douye Diri of Bayelsa State and Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, have sought to be joined in the case before the Supreme Court on the Naira swap policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The two Governors made a surprise appearance at the resumed hearing of the case by…

Read More

Kano To Revoke C of O, Ogun To Shut Banks Rejecting Old Notes

Gbenga Adeoti

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has warned that the state government will shut any bank that refuses to accept old naira notes in the state just as more states joined the struggle against cash crisis rocking Nigeria. Kano stare has earlier threatened to revoke the Certificate of Occupancy of erring banks. This is coming on the heels of an application filed at the Supreme Court, to join an ongoing suit against the Federal Government over the new naira policy implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The warning is…

Read More