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Four persons, including a nursing mother, were on Wednesday, killed in Benin, the Edo State capital, as angry residents barricaded the gate of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in protests over the scarcity of naira cash.   www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands  that two persons were killed on the Akpakpava road where the CBN office […]

  Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has demanded the cancellation of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) contract with a committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo.   Obi made the call on Monday at a press conference, which the Director-General, Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Akin Osuntokun, organised on his […]

Uche Aigbe the lead pastor of House on the Rock, Abuja, is currently being detained by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command.   www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that the pastor arrived at the Guzape office of the anti-car theft of FCT police command on Monday morning in company of the policeman whom he collected the […]

The INEC chief revealed that elections won’t hold in 240 polling units spread across 28 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) because they have no registered voters   Voters check for their details in a polling unit in Ekiti state on June 18, 2022. Sodiq Adelakun/Channels Television In this file photo, voters check for […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 240 polling units across the country do not have any registered voters, which will impede conduct of the general elections in those locations.   The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the disclosure after a meeting with political parties held in Abuja on Monday.   Yakubu recalled […]

The management of Chrisland schools has explained the incident that led to the death of one of their students, Whitney Adeniran, who died during the school’s inter-house sports activities at Agege Stadium, Lagos State, on Thursday.   Recall that Michael Adeniran, Whitney’s father, had taken to social media on Saturday night to demand a probe […]

Kano state government, through the Consumer Protection Council, on Sunday, shut popular supermarket, Wellcare, over refusal to accept old Naira notes. According to the Acting…   Kano state government, through the Consumer Protection Council, on Sunday, shut popular supermarket, Wellcare, over refusal to accept old Naira notes.   According to the Acting chairman of the […]

  Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have protested the alleged disobedience of court orders by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, demanding the sack of the EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa.   The aggrieved members of the CSOs carried various placards with several inscriptions like ‘Bawa must go,’ ‘EFCC needs a respecter of the law,’ ‘Bawa, […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has the capacity and materials to print new currency notes amid a shortage of cash in the country.    Multiple reports quoted the apex bank’s Governor Godwin Emefiele as admitting that the CBN does not have enough materials to print the new naira notes.   But the […]

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the February 25 and March 11 general elections.   In a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres, the NUC noted that the directive is based on the instruction of […]

One person was confirmed killed on Thursday morning in multiple crashes on Kara Bridge outward the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. About seven vehicles including a container-laden truck were involved in the multiple accidents that have paralysed movement and left motorists and travellers on the ever-busy road stranded in nerve-racking gridlock.   Already, first responders including officers of […]

  The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has disclosed that it discovered N258m stashed in the vault at the head office of Sterling Bank in Abuja last Friday.   The discovery, according to the ICPC, was made during its ongoing efforts at ensuring that commercial banks comply with the Central Bank […]