Banks ration new notes as circulation trickles

Pay out in old notes, complain of limited supply Emefiele writes Reps, defers appearance Lawmakers push summon to next Tuesday Ibadan residents yet to see new naira notes Banks in Kaduna, Kano limit payment to N2,000, N3,000 New banknotes began circulating as planned, yesterday. Supply across the country, however, was scanty or non-existent in some […]

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Kano cleric gets death sentence, says I’ll die a hero

A Kano Upper Shari’a Court, sitting at Kofar Kudu, Kano, on Thursday, sentenced a cleric, Sheikh Kabara Abduljabbar, to death by hanging. In its judgement, which lasted for over two hours, Khadi (judge) Ibrahim Yola said, “This honourable court is convinced that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, prompting the court to […]

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Ex- Osun Governor Oyetola took N18b loan after losing election, left N407.32bn debt – Adeleke

Osun State is grappling with a whopping N407.32 billion naira debt, including N76 billion owed as workers salaries and pension by the immediate past Governor Gboyega Oyetola led All Progressives Congress, APC administration. Governor Ademola Adeleke, who made the declaration on Thursday in Osogbo the state capital also made another startling revelation that his predecessor […]

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Buhari, Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu, Atiku, others mourn Seriki

Body of envoy expected from Spain today President Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader and presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu have expressed shock over the demise of Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Chief Ademola Rasaq Seriki, The […]

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Banks reconfigure ATMs, new naira enters circulation today

The newly redesigned naira notes will go into circulation on Thursday (today) with Deposit Money Banks releasing the bills to their customers via over-the-counter payments. This came about three weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled the new bills at a weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Aso Rock Villa. The President unveiled the redesigned notes […]

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Insights into the Tinubu and ‘Thisday’ matter

By Niran Adedokun As a communications practitioner, I am scandalised by the response of Messrs Bayo Onanuga and Dele Alake, two media veterans and leaders of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign, to a statement issued by the THISDAY/Arise Group earlier this week. If the statement was in their individual capacities, perhaps it would be […]

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PDP apologises to Nigerians, international community over Tinubu’s Chatham House outing

Advises ex-Lagos governor to address allegations, stop diversionary tactics The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation apologised to Nigerians and the international community for what it described as “the shame and embarrassing” outing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, recently, at Chatham House, London. The Atiku/Okowa campaign berated the Tinubu/Shettima […]

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