Armed bandits numbering about 200 stormed Babanla town in Kwara state on motorbikes at around 1:00 p.m. on Friday, killing a police officer and looting a local market. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, the assailants who fired sporadically, attacked the Babanla Police Station, where ASP Adejumo Wasiu attached to the ACPOL Offa…
The United Kingdom has issued another travel advice to its citizens in Nigeria, the second in four months. In the information updated on Wednesday, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO, warned against areas where there are banks and ATMs. It noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria’s redesigning and issue of new N200, N500…
Shock and horror gripped the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as police arrested a 200-level student of Material and Metallurgical Engineering, Emmanuel Gambo, for the alleged murder of a 22-year-old female undergraduate, Deborah Sam-Praise Ememem, in a chilling hotel room incident. According to Enugu State Police Command spokesman, SP Daniel Ndukwe, the suspect, who hails…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced new operational guidelines for agent banking across the country, capping daily cumulative transactions per agent at N1.2 million. The revised framework, released on Monday, also mandates all financial institutions to submit monthly reports on the activities of their Point-of-Sale agents to enhance oversight and service quality. The Circular…
The National Assembly is considering a bill that would mandate future presidents to be sworn in at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, instead of Eagle Square. The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, revealed the proposal during a media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja ahead of the country’s Democracy Day celebration. Mr Bamidele said the planned…
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has announced plans to clamp down on what it described as extreme and indecent “sign-out” practices among graduating students in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Director-General of the Agency, Lanre Issa-Onilu, disclosed this during the flag-off of a nationwide campaign on government policies, programmes, and activities. He was represented by Deputy Director-General…