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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 ....
Nigeria On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari issued a directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) allowing the coexistence of the old 200 naira notes and the redesigned 200, 500, and 1000 naira notes.In a national broadcast that was broadcast on national stations, Buhari gave CBN th ....
Salman Umar Hudu, a 38-year-old native of Kano, was detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday for impersonating the EFCC's Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, and other commission officials.Hudu was located and taken into custody at an Abuja hotel.Accord ....
The persistent shortage of naira notes throughout the nation has prompted citizens of Benin, the capital of Edo state, to go to the streets in protest.Residents in the state capital stormed banks and ignited bonfires on main roadways, according to a witness who spoke to TheCable. ....
As a result of testing positive for the Marburg virus, one of the worst diseases in the world, nine people have died in Equatorial Guinea.The Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola in that it causes bleeding to death in its victims, has an 88% mortality rate.According to the World ....