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The Senate has expressed surprise at a recommendation by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission for a review of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Act in order to empower the Central Bank of Nigeria to jail people for up to two years or fine them for 20 percent of the amount of the foreign currency held in […]

Skye Bank may sell some or all of its local and foreign subsidiaries as part of a review aimed at streamlining operations and boosting its capital adequacy, its chief financial officer said. The Nigerian central bank shored up Skye Bank in July with a more than 100 billion naira ($329 million) capital injection, after sacking […]

Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has dismissed the claim  that the masses will desert President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, describing it as “unfounded and utterly ridiculous.” Shehu, who was reacting to a media interview granted by former CPC member, Alhaji Buba Galadima, said that ordinary Nigerians were the backbone of Buhari’s mandate “and the only reason […]

The trial of a former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, his son, Senator Abdul-Aziz Nyako, Abubakar Aliyu and Zulkifikk Abba, before Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court, Abuja, got under way on Monday, November 21, 2016 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its first witness. They are facing a […]

Chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, Jide Omokore, was on November 21, 2016 re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Nnamdi Dimbga of a Federal High Court in Abuja. He was re-arraigned along with Victor Briggs, Abiye Membere, David Mbanefo, Atlantic Energy Brass Development […]

Nigerian military on Monday unveiled photographs of another 55 Boko Haram terrorists declared wanted. Thus, bringing the number of wanted terrorists so far to 257. Recall that the army in 2015 had declared 202 insurgents wanted in two batches Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin,Theatre Commander, and Chief of Defence Staff, while unveilng the photographs, asked Nigerians to join in […]Read More

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of State Security Service (DSS) have barred about 13 judges from travelling out to the country. Judges must remain in the country until the court permits them or they are removed from the watch-list of DSS and the EFCC. It was learnt that all the […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that three unidentified gunmen have abducted the former minister of foreign affairs, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse. The incident reportedly happened in front of his residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful nephew, Alhaji Mamman Daura, on Inuwa Wada road in Kaduna. Hirse, who was in the company of his friend, had gone to pay […]Read More

All is now set for the deployment of 200,000 unemployed graduates selected in the first batch of the Buhari administration’s plan to hire half a million Nigerians. While the 200,000 have been selected about two weeks ago, their names have now been sent to state governments and the FCT who would deploy them to their […]

Eighteen months into power, the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives (APC) is getting more complicated by the day, with many chieftains engaging in fierce war of words. While some party members have expressed the fear of possible disintegration, others say unless urgent steps are taken to avert its imminent breakup, President Buhari may no […]

Donu Kogara was kidnapped, threatened with rape and told she would die. In this text she gives a blow-by- blow account of her terrifying hostage ordeal in Nigeria Day 1 Just before 7am on Sunday, August 30, 2015, I am shaken awake in my bedroom in Port Harcourt, a city on Nigeria’s southern coastline in […]

The United States has expressed deep concerns over the latest clash between the Police and Shi’ite members in Kano, describing the security agency’s response to the procession as “disproportionate.” The US embassy’s Information Office  in Abuja also ‎called for calm and restraint on all sides. The office made the call on Friday through a statement adding […]Read More