Police Operatives serving in Igbo-Eze South Division of Enugu State Command, on Thursday, February 2, arrested one Joseph Chinenye aged 39 and Onyeka Kenneth Ezeja aged 29, both male and respectively of Iheakpu-Awka in Igbo-Eze South LGA and Onicha Enugu-Ezike in Igbo-Eze North LGA, for allegedly being in possession of suspected counterfeited …
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Nigerian billionaire Dozy Mmobuosi is ‘closing in on a £90m takeover of Sheffield United’ with the promotion-chasers under a transfer ban after struggling to keep up with payments to Liverpool for £23.5m Rhian Brewster *Sheffield United are reportedly close to being bought by a Nigerian billionaire*But the takeover is believed …
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Two people have been feared dead and over 40 others suspected to be trapped under the rubbles of a two storey suspended building which collapsed on Thursday at 7th Avenue, Gwarinpa in the nation’s capital, Abuja. At least, seven people were said to have been rescued. Director, Department of Development …
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The outburst of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) last week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital is already yielding positive results, party leaders informed DAILY INDEPENDENT on Thursday. Tinubu while speaking during the presidential campaign had alleged that the current fuel scarcity in …
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An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for raping a 14-year-old girl. The convicts, Salau Adams (21) and Odeleye Tobi (21), were arraigned on May 13, 2022, on one count of rape. The charge read, ?The defendants on February 28, 2022, at Awo Ekiti in …
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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Cross River State, Gertrude Nnanjar Njar, in Calabar. An eyewitness, Samuel Okon, told the News Agency of Nigeria that she was forcefully taken out of her official car by masked young men on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. According …
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Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) “is hurting Nigerians” and needs to be reviewed. The apex bank has fixed February 10 as the new deadline for the swap of old naira notes. It initially fixed January 31 as …
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Many customers of microfinance banks operating in Osun State have threatened to storm the streets to protest their inability to withdraw money from their accounts.In some of the microfinance banks visited in Osogbo by Punch correspondent on Wednesday, many officials of the banks, were not on seat, as many of …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huZb4CYka4s The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso has faulted the new naira swap deadline, claiming it only affects the masses and not the political elites who he said have banks. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on Sunday extended the deadline for the …
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A former Minister of State for Defence, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, on Tuesday told the Fed. High Court sitting in Lagos how the sum of N1.2 billion was allegedly passed on to the former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose for his re-election. Obanikoro spoke as the 12th prosecution witness in the …
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