The new naira notes are already being counterfeited, four days after they were rolled out to the public by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the commercial banks, The Nation findings have shown. In a video which has now gone viral, a man was heard saying his wife, who operates a ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Argentina yesterday defeated France 4-2 on penalties after a terrific final on Sunday evening to lift the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The highly contested match had ended 2-2 after regulation time and 3-3 after ...

Twenty people may have lost their lives to suspected cholera outbreak in Ekeureku community in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State, south-south Nigeria. Ten villages in the community have reportedly been affected since Thursday. The Permanent Secretary at the Cross River Ministry ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Gunmen on Saturday set ablaze the building housing Imo State High Court in Orlu, reportedly burning part of the structure housing sensitive documents. The development is coming a few days after some gunmen attacked ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned serving corps members against partaking in any form of electoral malpractices in the forthcoming general elections. The Acting Director-General of the NYSC, Mrs ...

A total of 191 stranded Nigerians in India evacuated back home by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, have arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja today, Friday 16th December 2022. An Ethiopian Airline charted flight that conveyed the returnees touched down at the Abuja ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in Ogun State has threatened to shut down all its outlets across the state over the ultimatum issued to marketers by the ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, warned yesterday in Abuja that those abusing the naira were liable to go to jail, noting that the law banning the “spraying’’ and the stepping on the naira, especially at social gatherings is still in force and offenders are liable to six months imprisonment ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The House of Representatives has ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and other regulatory agencies to end the lingering fuel scarcity in one week to ease the suffering of Nigerians. The ...

The Federal Ministry of Works on Monday removed barriers on the section one of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway construction project. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that workmen used heavy duty equipment to remove crash barriers and other diversion points for free flow of traffic at the OPIC ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Dr Babachir Lawal, has clarified that he would never support the Presidential ambition of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The former SGF ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, says the ball is now in the court of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his camp over the lingering crisis in the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has said he will ensure victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Kashim Shettima in Borno State, saying Shettima’s benevolence must not be betrayed. Zulum spoke when the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Oil marketers, on Friday, said the distribution of Premium Motor Spirit, known as petrol, was still problematic but expressed confidence that queues for the product at filling stations would soon disappear. ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday gave the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and oil marketers a 48-hour ultimatum to make Premium Motor Spirit, known as petrol, available for Nigerians. ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The House of Senate will on Tuesday, 13th of December, 2022, debate the latest Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy on cash withdrawal limits. During the Wednesday plenary, Senate Minority Leader Aduda Phillip, in a ...

The Senate has set Tuesday, 13th of December 2022, to debate the latest Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy over cash withdrawal limits. The Senate raised concerns in its plenary on Wednesday. Senate Minority Leader Aduda Phillip, in a point of order, had drawn the attention of his colleagues to ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The House of Representatives has asked the federal government to continue the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line. The lawmakers made the call on Tuesday after adopting a motion moved by Dozzie ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: A few days after endorsing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has returned to the main opposition party. The ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday, failed to make a commitment that he would use Nigerian health facilities if elected president of the country. Atiku was among the Presidential ...

A bandits’ kingpin, Bello Turji has claimed the federal government was responsible for the incessant banditry activities in the northwest and other places. He alleged that security chiefs, military personnel and some highly placed individuals make huge amounts of money from the inhuman ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest news of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has finally unveiled his manifesto titled “Obi/Baba-Ahmed Pact with Nigerians.” the Manifesto promises seven key priority areas that he said are needed to ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: An office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been set ablaze in Imo State. The development comes days after an office of the commission was torched in Ebonyi State, with electoral materials, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria should not blame God for the country’s failures since it gained independence from Britain in 1960.The statesman said this on Thursday at the launch of a book by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed, titled “The Letterman: Inside ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest news of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, has sentenced the 2023 governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) Bassey Akpan to 42 years in prison. Bassey, who is also the Chairman ...

Against the increasing fuel scarcity across the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) says it has two billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, in stock. In a statement on Thursday, Mr Adeyemi Adetunji, Executive Vice President, ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: Aminu Muhammad, a student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), has been remanded in prison over his tweet on Aisha Buhari. Muhammad, who hails from Azare in Bauchi State, is a final-year student at the department of ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order. The court, in a ruling by Justice M. O. Olajuwon on ...

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has disclosed plans to add over 98 megawatts to the national grid. This is coming as TCN energized a new 2X60MVA, 132/33kV Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) at Gwarinpa, Abuja recently. TCN’s general manager of public affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah stated this in ...

The former General Manager of Corporate Planning and Business Development at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Babajide Soyode, has urged the Federal Government to halt the fuel subsidy payment regime to end the persistent scarcity of the product. Soyode made this disclosure on ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday, warned Nigerians that if the Federal Government kept withholding their pay, a new crisis would break out in the country’s universities. The University of Ilorin, ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, the umbrella body for all the telecoms companies in Nigeria, including MTN, Airtel, 9Mobile, Glo and other operators, yesterday assured Nigerians that ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest news of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State escaped unhurt after a truck crushed two vehicles in his convoy on Saturday. An eyewitness said the incident happened shortly after the governor and some of his commissioners ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria will attain greatness when it shifts emphasis from consumption to production. The vice president stated this at the first-ever national innovation workshop, organised by the Senate Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation in Awka, Anambra State, ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest news of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: The frequent appearance of queues of desperate motorists at filling stations in search of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, could affect the Christmas and New Year festivities, oil marketers stated on ...

Good morning! Here is today’s Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers: Three policemen on escort duty were on Thursday shot dead at Rumuokoro axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. After killing the officers, the gunmen reportedly abducted the Managing Director of an oil ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the $250 million IT solution contract between the Nigerian Customs Service and Webb Fontaine. The lower chamber reached the resolution following the consideration ...

The federal government yesterday disclosed that over one billion dollars have been recovered as looted funds by the present administration in the last seven and half years. The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who made this known while briefing newsmen at the end of the ...

Bandits have abducted four people in the Kolo village of Gusau Local Government Area in Zamfara State and refused to collect old naira notes as ransom.Channels Television gathered that the bandits earlier demanded N10m as ransom but after the negotiation, they agreed to collect N5m.Sources from ...

Good morning! Here is today’s Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers: President Muhammadu Buhari will unveil the redesigned Naira notes on Wednesday . Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank announced this during the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee monthly meeting in Abuja ...

   Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that his administration invested heavily in the education system, which allowed lecturers and teachers to buy cars and houses.Obasanjo, who was president from 1999-2007, said the teachers christened the jumbo allowance as “Gbemu Aremu”.Mr ...

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture has identified fake news as the greatest challenge to the 2023 general elections. The minister spoke at the 4th edition of the ‘PMB Administration Scorecard 2015-2023 Series’. The purpose, according to him, is to massively showcase the ...

Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank has confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari will unveil the designed Naira notes tomorrow Wednesday, November 23, 2022. Emefiele announced this during the Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee monthly meeting in Abuja. Recall that Emefiele ...

Good morning! Here is today’s News of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: The Federal Government has assembled a legal team to challenge the suit filed by domestic airlines seeking to stop the establishment of a proposed national carrier- Nigeria Air. It was learnt on Monday that the legal team of ...

Economic melt-down is perhaps a global phenomenon. Businesses in Nigeria are not exempted from this crisis.           With loss of jobs and unemployment on the increase, able-bodied Nigerians have resorted into begging on the streets of Lagos.         Interestingly, Nigerians on the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest Nigerian news from Nigerian Newspapers: A splinter group within the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has emerged. Known as New Afenifere, leaders of the group met Presidential Candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa ...

Good morning! Here is today’s latest News of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Tuesday, supervise the first oil drill in oil fields located in Bauchi and Gombe states. The ground-breaking ceremony of the Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 809 and 810 at the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s Latest News of Nigeria from Nigerian Newspapers: The United Nations has announced the release of $10.5 million US dollars (about N4.6 billion) for flood response in Nigeria. The UN, in a statement on Friday, said the amount will be used to provide assistance to ...

Good morning! Here is today’s Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers: In a move to protect the Independent National Electoral Commission assets ahead of the 2023 election, the Federal Government, yesterday, deployed the Department of State Services’ personnel, soldiers, civil defence corps ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has reemphasised the need for Nigerians to handle the new naira notes with dignity as strict consequences await those mishandling the currency.Speaking at a sensitisation, enlightenment and bank fair programme held in Osogbo, Osun state on Thursday, ahead of the ...