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The Central Bank of Gambia began distributing new 50, 100 and 200 notes of its dalasi currency on Tuesday August 7, following the removal of Yahya Jammeh’s image from its national bank notes.   The image of former president Yahya Jammeh which was ...

A tragic incident occurred yesterday at Opobo Junction area of Aba, as a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as Okada was allegedly shot dead by a soldier.   The Okada rider was reportedly shot dead by the soldier over his refusal to give ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it is set to arraign former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu, over alleged N1.2bn fraud and money laundering.   The commission said Iwu would be arraigned at ...

The Kaduna State government says it will be challenging the state High Court’s decision to grant the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) aka Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, permission to travel India for medical attention. ...

The Nigeria Police Force have accused soldiers of killing three of their personnel while freeing a kidnap suspect in Taraba state.   According to a statement released by Frank Mba, the spokesperson of the force, he said police officers from ...

Operatives of the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested the Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, Gummi Local Government Chapter, Ibrahim Rijiya for alleged involvement in the diversion of three trailer ...

Saudi Arabia’s Director General of Passports Major General Suleiman bin Abdulaziz Al-Yahya on Wednesday August 7, revealed that 1,819,790 pilgrims arrived the Kingdom to perform the annual Hajj rites. Addressing a press conference in Jeddah, Al-Yahya said1,708,152 people arrived through ...

Tayo Faniran, a former Big Brother Africa housemate, on Wednesday, August 7th met Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission over his assault at the hands of South African police.   Dabiri stated that the issue is currently being ...

A boat cruise in Canada’s Montreal went sour as a Nigerian man drowned on the outing with his friends.   The 25-year-old Nigerian man identified as Uchenna Stanley Nnaji drowned in Lac des Sables in the Laurentian community of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts on July 13, ...

The Department of State Service (DSS), Edo state command, have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters  for using the names of Vice resident Yemi Osinbajo and wife of the President, Aisha Buhari to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.   The Deputy ...

Timi Dakolo has taken to Instagram to stand by his wife following recent revelation that she was forced by police at gunpoint to sign letter countering her rape case against Biodun Fatoyinbo.   Busola also said that the legal and ...

An impeachment proceeding has been launched by Kogi State Assembly against Deputy Governor Simon Achuba following his recent face-off with Governor Yahaya Bello.   Recall that Simon Achuba had few weeks ago accused Yahaya Bello of failing to pay an accumulated sum of ...

A dismissed soldier identified as Lance Corporal Khalid Mohammed was on Wednesday August 7, paraded alongside 78 others by Kaduna state Police Command for armed robbery.   The suspect said he has been into armed robbery since 2006 after being dismissed from the Nigerian Army ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has commenced the psychological assessment of 940 personnel engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Borno State.   The Borno State Commandant of the Corps, Abdullahi Ibrahim said at the inauguration of the exercise ...

Two suspected currency counterfeiters identified as Moses Adukwu and Iorlumun Reuben, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) following a case transfer from the Department of State Service (DSS) to the anti-graft agency.   While 27-year-old Iorlumun from Vandeikya Local Government Area ...

Busola Dakolo has raised an alarm of being forced at gun point by the police to sign a letter countering her rape allegations against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.   Timi Dakolo’s wife alleged that she was forced into a van by ...

The body of a missing British woman, 19, has been found in a remote jungle in Madagascar, nearly two weeks after she forced open the door of an aircraft she was travelling in and “intentionally” jumped to her death.   The body of ...

A 25-year-old Nigerian lady came through with her “testimony” of buying a new house and moving into her own office space after quitting a £50k job.   Sharing it all on Twitter @Lala_raeee wrote;   ABLE GOD! Within the last two weeks ...

A Nigerian man took to Facebook to lament over the dilapidated state of the National Library  which he said left him confused upon getting there.   The Facebook user alleged that the Central Area Abuja is the most expensive district in FCT ...

Femi Falana on Tuesday August 6, warned that Buhari will be his first witness in court if the Department of State Services (DSS) arraigns the convener of #RevolutionNow movement Omoyele Sowore, in court.   The human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) ...

General Ibrahim Babangida, a former military head of state has described Nigeria as complex and a difficult entity to manage.   Babangida spoke from his residence in Minna when the leadership of  Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, minority caucus of the House ...

A Rivers state resident has been arrested and detained by the police for defiling his 9 year old step daughter.   According to activisit, Harrison Gwamnishu who effected the arrest, he said the suspect who resides in Igwuruta, began to ...

The Edo State Government has suspended the Chairman of Etsako West local government area of Edo State, Yakubu Musa, to allow for a thorough investigation into a N46 million payroll fraud uncovered in the Council.   The government, in a ...

A video of a University of Calabar (UNICAL) staff flogging Post-UTME candidates that turned up for the University’s entrance exam that commenced on August 5, has gone viral on social media.   A Twitter user who shared a footage from the ...

A couple tragically fell to their deaths while they were packing on the PDA after a night out in Peru, and the horrific moment was caught on CCTV.   The pair, Maybeth Espinoz, and Hector Vidal were on their way home from a nightclub in Cusco ...