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In the southeast Nigerian state of Anambra, three police officers were killed on Saturday when gunmen bombed the Ogidi Police Divisional Headquarters in Idemili North Local Government Area.Early in the day, according to what PREMIUM TIMES has learned, the incident took place.This ne ....
Football player Christian Atsu from Ghana was discovered dead in Turkey's earthquake debris.His manager, Murat Uzunmehmet, informed the DHA news agency on Saturday that his body had been discovered in the province of Hatay in southern Turkey, beneath the debris.He said: †....
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials as well as other ad hoc employees were attacked, according to the Anambra State Police Command.According to a news release by Anambra State Police Command spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga, the gunmen attacked while the INEC ....
The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has issued a severe warning to the state's commercial banks, threatening to shut down any institution that continues to only take the old N500 and N1,000 notes.On Friday, the governor issued a warning while inspecting the palliatives that ....
The old N500 and N1,000 notes should be turned in to banks right away, according to a directive from the Central Bank of Nigeria.But it set the maximum amount that banks could take in at N500,000.The CBN insisted that the older currencies were no longer acceptable forms of pa ....
Chidozie Nwachi has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after defrauding Nicole Kierulff Sayers, an American, of $200,000 in fraud.The EFCC also said Nwachi had tricked Sayers into getting married.Sayers claims that after being taken advantage of, sh ....
Despite President Muhammadu Buhari's declaration that the old N500 and N1000 notes have been seized are legal tender on Thursday morning, the Jigawa State Government has taken the opposite stance by advising residents and other people in the state to continue using the currencies as accept ....
Pastor Francisco Barajah passed away in Mozambique while attempting to break Jesus' record on the biblical Mount of Olives by fasting for 40 days.According to the BBC, the Mozambique man of God was only able to keep 25 of the 40 days he had planned before his death.The BBC r ....
The Nigeria Police Force announced on Thursday in Abuja that it would send 310,973 of its personnel to the more than 176,846 polling places across the country for the presidential election, which will take place on February 25. The election is about one week away.According to the s ....
On Wednesday, soldiers in Nigerian Army uniforms raided the Ogijo police station in Ogun State after an alleged police assault on a soldier.The "soldiers," who had assaulted the station without their name tags, set it ablaze after the raid.Numerous people were hurt during th ....