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Fire guts GTBank

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A branch of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) in the Mararaba area of Nasarawa State has been gutted by fire. The GTBank is located along the Nyanya-Mararaba Expressway before Abacha Road, Karu. Mararaba is a border town between the FCT and...
The senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Chimaroke Nnamani, says he cannot be expelled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Nnamani, a former governor of Enugu State, said he is still in the PDP despite his expulsion by the party’s...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timpre Sylva, says the Federal Government has taken bold actions to stop the ongoing petrol scarcity across the country, while assuring massive distribution of the product. Sylva gave the assurance after his tour of...
The National Assembly has again ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to allow the old and new naira notes to be used concurrently to cushion the hardship being experienced by the citizens. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said this...
Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries rerun in Taraba State. The chairman of the electoral committee, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (Retd), announced the result in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, on...
The naira, on Friday, exchanged at N461.50 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window. The figure represented an appreciation of 0.09 per cent compared with N461.10 it exchanged on Thursday. The open indicative rate closed at N461.50 to the...
Popular South African Rapper, Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, well known as AKA, has been shot dead. It was gathered that AKA was shot dead on Florida Road on Friday night. Some persons in two cars were said to have opened fire on...
Rescuers in southern Turkey have rescued a 10-year-old boy from a collapsed house, four days after an earthquake caused devastation across large parts of the country’s border with Syria. The boy had been trapped under the rubble in the town...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the provisional posting of Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police (CP) pending approval of the Police Service Commission (PSC). The IGP...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled the former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, and five others from its fold. Also expelled were the son and former aide of the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Oluwajomiloju...