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Zamfara government, on Tuesday, asked Non Governmental Organisations operating in the state ( NGOs) to pack their belongings and leave the state immediately. In a statement signed by the state commissioner of Security and Home Affairs DIG rtd Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe the state government said it has observed with utmost dismay, the recent high influx of Non-Governmental Organisations into the state. The government said the NGOs are carrying out illegal activities that contravene the existing laws of government. “Majority of these illegal NGOs have not registered with the state in line with the laid down rules and regulations of government”…

A new Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has assumed duty at the Lagos State Police Command, taking over from Abiodun Alabi, who was promoted to an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in charge of Zone 2 with headquarters in Lagos. Confirming the development via a statement on his Twitter handle late Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said Owohunwa who hails from Kabba, Kogi State, joined the police force as a Cadet Officer (Course 19/1996) on August 15, 1996, after graduating with a Second Class (Upper Division) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. According to Hundeyin, the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released emergency telephone numbers to the public to officially report erring Point of Sales (POS) agents selling new naira notes and those selling charging exorbitantly for withdrawal. The Director, CBN Governor’s Department, Mr Joseph Omayuku, made this known during a briefing with journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital on Tuesday. While warning syndicates engaging in illegal practices to desist forthwith, Omayuku advised members of the public to report erring PoS agents by reaching out to the CBN contact centre on 07002255226; Telephone Ext: 711025 – 7; contactcbn@cbn.gov.ng and its social media handles. The…

The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. The police in Anambra State, South-east Nigeria, said they have rescued 15 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who were abducted by gunmen in the state. The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. Mr Ikenga said the corps members had concluded their three weeks orientation programme at the NYSC Orientation camp in Imo State and were en route to Lagos State before their vehicle was intercepted on Tuesday at a junction in Ihiala, a community…

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, in Lagos has ordered the remand of an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, in Kirikiri prison pending the determination of her bail application, for tampering with the Naira notes. Omoseyin was arraigned on a two-count charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for spraying and stepping on the newly redesigned Naira notes at a party. One of the count reads: “That you Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin on the 28th day of January, 2023 at Monarch Event Centre, Lekki within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court while dancing during a social occasion tampered with the…

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, told the Diplomatic Corps that an extension of the February 10 deadline for the circulation of the redesigned N200, N500 and N1, 000 notes was unnecessary. He spoke at the meeting on the redesigned Naira policy held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja. Emefiele spoke on a day governors of Kano and Ogun states, Abdullahi Ganduje, and Dapo Abiodun, respectively, threatened to shut down banks in their states, if they continued to reject the old naira notes. However, the CBN governor noted the…

The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned a hearing in the suit banning the use of the old naira to Wednesday, 22nd February 2023. The three states filed the suit against the Federal Government seeking a restraining order to stop the full implementation of the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria. In a new development, nine states have filed to join the suit initially filed by Kogi, Kaduna and Zamfara states. The states are Katsina, Lagos, Cross River, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo and Sokoto states bringing the new total of plaintiffs to ten. On the other…

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has informed citizens that there will be no cash swap for old notes in any financial institution. The CBN already declared the old N200, N500 and N1000 are no longer recognized as legal tender, despite a Supreme Court ruling. The apex bank on Tuesday released the guidelines for deposit of old notes at any of its branches across the country from February 15 and 17. CBN explained that in exchange for the old notes, the bank account provided by the depositor will be credited after scrutiny. “You will not be issued new notes; instead…

AS part of efforts to ensure ease of doing business in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR has signed the Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provision) Bill 2022 into law. Presented as an Executive Bill, the Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provision) Act, 2023 is a legislative intervention by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, which amends 21 business-related laws, removing bureaucratic constraints to doing business in Nigeria. The Business Facilitation Act, 2023 consolidates the last seven years of PEBEC-led reforms and demonstrates the Administration’s sustained commitment towards making Nigeria a progressively easier place to start and grow a business. The new law also…

The United States government yesterday said it was not supporting any candidate or political party in the February 25 and March 11th elections in Nigeria. The US Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of Africa Affairs, Molly Phee, stated this yesterday, when she paid visit to the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. She said the concern of the US as an advanced democracy was to encourage a successful election that would be free, fair and peaceful. Phee stated: “Since 1999, Nigeria has been moving up in solidifying and consolidating its democratic trajectory. And now, under…