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  Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has slammed the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, over the new monetary policy.   The CBN in December 2022, introduced the newly redesigned N200, N500, and N1000 notes and has ...

  A Kenyan landlord has put up his tenant’s underwear for auction following a row over rent he’s being owed.   The auction notice appeared in the local dailies on Monday, January 30, 2023. Nyaluoyo Auctioneers said they were instructed by the landlord of one Zachariah ...

  Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has made a new announcement about the old naira notes. He says banks will continue to accept old naira notes after the stipulated deadline. Emefiele spoke on Tuesday when he appeared ...

  A planned political rally by supporters of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was today, stopped from holding in Niger state. Reports say the event was stopped by fierce-looking security operatives who on Tuesday, ...

  Chief Magistrate at Kira Court in Kampala, Uganda, Ms Roseline Nsenge has sentenced 18-year-old Tanzanian national, Kaftah Queen, to three years in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated torture.   The student at Trinity College Nabweru and ...

  Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested six suspected bandits along the Elele-Owerri Road in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State.   Spokesperson of the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, ...

Emir of Dutse in Jigawa Alhaji Dr Nuhu Muhammad Sunusi has died at the age of 78.   The monarch died at an Abuja hospital on Tuesday January 31, after a brief illness. The Special Adviser to the Governor, Alhaji ...

  A 24-year-old woman identified as Mary Rukobo has been arrested by the police in Muzokomba, Zimbabwe, for grabbing her children aged two months and two years respectively by the legs and bashing their heads against rocks.   Eyewitnesses told local news platforms that ...

  Hajia Aisha Maina, the Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state on female education is dead.   The Governor’s aide who attended the Presidential rally of the People Democratic Party (PDP) which took place in Sokoto state ...

  Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has said that the logistics arrangement for the general elections scheduled to hold on February 25 and March 11, might be affected by the current fuel scarcity in the ...

The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee has rejected the extended deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to enable Nigerians swap their old Naira notes for the new ones. The apex bank had fixed January 31 as ...

  An explosion which rocked Azare town, Headquarters of Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State, reportedly destroyed a school, a mosque and a house in the area.   The state Commissioner of Police, Aminu Alhassan, who confirmed the explosion on ...

  Diezani Alison-Madueke, Former Minister of Petroleum, has filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate an order granting final forfeiture of her assets to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   In the lawsuit filed before a federal high court ...

  The 9 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, on Monday, January 30, paraded 116 suspected miscreants arrested in an early morning raid of black spots as part of Still Water Operation in Lagos State.   The suspects were arrested on ...

  Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, January 30 stated that a cashless policy in Nigeria can help stem the surge of illicit election financing by making it possible to track funds.   He disclosed this at the Presidential ...

  Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a man identified as Kenneth Abang in Cross River State.   A senior correspondent at the News Agency of Nigeria, George Odok Jnr, who confirmed the incident on Monday night, January 30, 2023, ...

  At least 59 people were killed and 157 others were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, January 30.   The blast occurred at a mosque near police offices in Peshawar, ...

  A suspected commercial sex worker was found dead in a brothel along old market road in Onitsha, Anambra State. The deceased, simply identified as Chisom from Enugu State, was said to have died on Monday, January 30, 2023 after ...

  The officer, Preston Hemphill, was relieved of duty amid an ongoing internal investigation at the Memphis Police Department, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday.   The details of Hemphill’s involvement in Nichols’ arrest were not disclosed by Memphis Police. Hemphill ...

  The Russian government has accused former British prime minister Boris Johnson of lying when he said President Vladimir Putin had threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.   This is coming after Johnson disclosed to ...

  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested 17 suspects and seized no fewer than 2,601.5 kilograms of cannabis and 102,500 pills of pharmaceutical opioids during interdiction operations across Plateau, Edo, Delta, Taraba, Kogi, Kano, Lagos and ...

  Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have busted an armed robbery gang and arrested one suspect.   Spokesperson of the command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, January 29, 2023, said police operatives ...

  Nine persons including children have been confirmed dead in the accident that happened at the Ojuelegba axis of Lagos state today January 29.   TGB had reported earleir that a truck conveying a 20ft container landed on top of ...

  A container has fallen on a fully loaded bus in Ojuelegba, Lagos state this afternoon, January 29. Confirming the incident, the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency LASTMA says efforts are currently being made toward rescue and evacuation.   Watch ...

  The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, says he wonders how white people were able to convince Africans that polygamy is a sin while homosexuality is a human right.   In a post shared on his Instagram page, the monarch ...