The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the maximum weekly limit for cash withdrawals across all channels by individuals and corporate organisations to N500,000 and N5 million, respectively. This was contained in a circular on Wednesday signed by the Director of Banking Supervision Department, Haruna Mustafa. The development comes two weeks after the CBN…
A Golf 3 car belonging to a journalist, Amos Matthew of New Nigeria newspapers, was stolen on Tuesday at the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna. Matthew was at the party secretariat to cover declaration by the Kaduna state Commissioner of Budget and Planning, Mohammed Dattijo who wants to run for…
The chairman of Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, Boyi Manja, has been abducted by gunmen. The tragic incident occurred yesterday when he was on Monday along the Takum-Wukari Highway in the state. His police orderly was however, killed during the unfortunate incident. Spokesperson of the Taraba state police command, Abdullahi Usman, confirmed the…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing warning strike by eight weeks. The extension follows the failure of the federal government to address the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week warning strike. President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, announced the extension of the strike in a…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman The recent suggestion by Prof. Jerry Gana that former President Goodluck Jonathan may run in the 2027 presidential election, says a great deal about the state of Nigerian politics. A full decade after his historic electoral defeat, Jonathan is once again being presented as the potential saviour of the opposition Peoples…
The remains of the late Chief of Maroa, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Mallam Tagwai Sambo, was laid to rest on Saturday in Manchok. The first class chief, aged 88, died peacefully in his sleep in his palace in Kaura on June 15, 2024. Born on December 24, 1936, Sambo, a reknown educationist,…
