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… Official exchange rate: N250 to $1: Parallel market rate:N398 – N450 to $1. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria has directed the management of the apex bank to adopt a flexible exchange rate policy. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this on Tuesday while addressing journalists shortly after the end of […]

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared former senator and Peoples Democratic party flag bearer for the last gubernatorial election in Osun state wanted. The declaration is in connection with a case of receiving and misappropriating the sum of over N700, 000,000.00 from the Office of the National Security Adviser, between June and November, […]

The Edo State Government has approved the appointment of His Royal Highness, Edaiken N’Uselu, Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, as the Oba of Benin. The appointment is with effect from April 29, 2016. In a letter dated May 24, 2016, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere, titled: “Appointment of His […]

FirstBank’s Women Basketball Team – The Elephant Girls – has won the 2015/2016 Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball Championship for the seventh time. The tournament which dunked off on March 18, 2016 saw the Elephant Girls maintain a perfect start and take the lead in every game across the Federal Capital Territory, Asaba, and the finals […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Ahmed Ja’afaru as the new Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS). This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Bassey Akpanyung, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, which was made available on Tuesday in Abuja. Until his appointment, Ja’afaru was an Assistant Controller General of […]

Mr. Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, was unavoidably absent from his ongoing trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja today (Tuesday). When Justice Okon Abang, inquired about Metuh’s whereabouts, his lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), said the defendant was on  bed rest at the National Hospital, Abuja. Metuh […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has granted an interim injunction restraining the immediate past national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, and Professor Adewale Oladipo who were removed from office at the PDP National Convention held on Saturday May 21, 2016, from parading themselves as national officers of […]Read More

Nigeria’s immediate past President, Ebele Goodluck Jonathan has repudiated allegation that he has gone on exile in Cote D’Ivoire to evade arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).  Mr. Jonathan rebuttal came through a terse text message to our correspondent. Hear him “I am not on exile. I find it amusing that such […]

Following the release of an interim report of workers’ verification in the state, workers in Kogi at both state and local levels are battling with anxiety. The workers fear that no fewer than 10,000 among them might be sacked by the state government. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) learnt in Lokoja on Monday […]

Commissioner For Commerce and Industry in  Edo State Mr Abdul Oroh has been disengaged from his appointment by the  Executive Governor of Edo State Adams Oshiomhole. The governor said that the removal was with immediate effect. Adding that the removal was “in the public interest”. however  no reason was given as to why Oroh was sacked.  Abdul  […]Read More

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has supplicated the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to compel the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay him monetary compensation of $800 million for the gross violation of his human rights. Kanu, who has been […]

An Abuja High Court has nullified the Federal Government’s decision to incarcerate the detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) to the premises of the Department of the State Security Service (DSS) to access and brief his lawyer in the on-going trial of criminal charges on corruption brought against him. Dasuki, who had […]Read More