Mohamed Salah, on Saturday, missed a penalty as Philip Billing's first-half goal proved enough for Bournemouth to stun Liverpool 1-0 and move out of the Premier League relegation zone. Bournemouth took the lead against the run of play with a...
Some residents of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, have decried their inability to spend the old N500 and N1,000 notes in spite of the Supreme Court’s pronouncement that they remain legal tender until December 31, 2023. The residents, who spoke with...
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, says the state government will arrest and prosecute traders and service providers who reject old N500 and N1000 denominations in the state. Oyebanji, in a statement issued on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media,...
Some Lagos residents have expressed regrets for collecting the old 500 and 1,000 naira notes from commercial banks after the Supreme Court judgement validating it as legal tender till December 31, 2023. The residents said it had been challenging spending...
Li Qiang, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's most trusted allies, has been elected as premier by the parliament. Li, the former Communist Party leader of the country's biggest city of Shanghai, will now lead the government, replacing retiring Li...
The Katsina State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has sacked its deputy gubernatorial candidate, Muttaqa Rabe-Darma, the state party chairman, Sani Liti, and other top executives. The Director, Media and Publicity of the NNPP, Nasiru Usman-Kankia, disclosed...
A 13-year-old boy has allegedly shot a three-year-old girl to death at Kukudi Village, Imasayi in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Friday,...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from making libelous allegations against him. Yakubu gave the warning through his Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, in Abuja...
No fewer than ten states have concluded plans to file contempt charges against the Federal Government (FG) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over their non-compliance with the March 3 judgement of the Supreme Court on the extension...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has threatened to arrest and prosecute those rejecting the old Naira notes. The threat was contained in a statement issued by Bello’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo in Lokoja. The Supreme Court had...