Barely two weeks after the announcement of plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign some naira notes, about N52 billion cash has been deposited. There were indications that the deposit sum may increase in the next few days because it is suspected that about N3 trillion cash ...
Group Managing Director of the NNPC Limited, Mele Kyari, said as a result of the several ongoing reforms in the oil and gas sector leading to the discovery of several sources of crude oil theft, he has been receiving death threats from unknown persons. Kyari spoke just as the Chairman ...
The build-up to this year's World Cup has been dogged by concerns about the suffering of low-paid migrant workers to build the infrastructure in the tiny Gulf nation and discriminatory laws that criminalise same-sex relations. Blatter, 86, was the boss of FIFA in 2010 when its executive committee controversially voted ...
The federal government says the Abuja-Kaduna train operations will resume in November. Mu’azu Sambo, minister for transportation disclosed this to journalists on Monday. Sambo, however, did not specify the date train services will resume in the axis. In March, the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) had suspended the Abuja-Kaduna train operations ...
The Nigerian Navy says it is conducting an investigation into the activities of MV HEROIC IDUN, a supertanker, arrested by Equatorial Guinea forces over alleged crude oil theft in Nigeria. The vessel and its crew were arrested on August 7 by the Central African country after it fled from Nigeria’s ...
An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday has issued an order of interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. 10 of Ekweremadu’s properties in Enugu, three in the United States of America (USA), two in the United Kingdom (UK), one in Lagos, ...
Buba Marwa, the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says the agency needs more sniffer dogs to prosecute war against drug pushing, adding that each sniffer dog costs about $20,000. Per current rates at the parallel market ( about N800 per dollar), a sniffer dog would cost ...
One of Nigeria’s representatives in this year’s CAF Confederation Cup competition, Rivers United, were in mercurial form, yesterday, when they thrashed visiting Al NASR 5-0 in the first leg of their group stage qualifying tie. The Rivers boys, who dropped down to the Confederation Cup from the more prestigious Champions ...
The Lagos State Table Tennis League will serve off November 6 at Eko Club in Surulere, Lagos as teams battle for places in the grand finale, The PUNCH reports. Each team is expectedT’tennis: Lagos league kicks off Nov. 6 to be made up of five players and a coach while ...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said that the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to launch new designs and replace high value Naira notes had his support and is convinced that the nation will gain a lot by doing so. Speaking in a Hausa radio interview with the ...
