President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to recirculate the old N200 bank notes, which will remain legal tender with the newly re-designed N200, N500 and N1,000 notes until April 10, 2023.
The President disclosed this in a national…
The Supreme Court has adjourned the suit filed by state governments to challenge the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The Supreme Court adjourned the case till Wednesday, February 22 for a hearing of the consolidated suits by 10…
Ten days to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly election, cash for the mobilisation of ad-hoc staff for the polls is yet to be made available to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Daily Trust reports.
Nigerians have been battling with the…
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic and Violence Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 51-year-old pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two teenage sisters.
Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the sentence after finding Anyanwu guilty of the offence.
Anyanwu…
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Bwari, on Tuesday, declined a request by the police to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of an official of the Supreme Court, Mrs Ogunseye Adebiyi.
The police claimed that Adebiyi forged a judgment of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to lift its blanket visa ban on Nigerians.
The President canvassed this position on Tuesday during a telephone conversation with the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed…
Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday summoned the Finnish Ambassador, over misinfornation, disinformation, hate speech and incitive comments by a Nigerian-Finnish lawyer and Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, which many fear could derail the peaceful conduct of 2023 general elections.
At the meeting with…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that sensitive materials for the 2023 general elections are in the custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
This was disclosed by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Festus Okoye, to…
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele should be jailed for contempt of the Supreme Court, an eminent professor of law, Itse Sagay (SAN), said yesterday.
He believes spending some time behind bars will make the CBN helmsman realise the enormity of…
The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, PhD has directed the State Board of Internal Revenue to suspend the collection of taxes in all markets across the State, with immediate effect.
Governor Ikpeazu who gave this directive today while speaking to traders at…