…says 75 per cent old notes now collected …vows to sanction banks ‘selling’ new notes The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday, in Daura, approved the Central Bank of Nigeria’s request to extend the deadline for swapping of old naira notes with the redesigned notes from January 31, …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the deadline for the swapping of old naira notes with the redesigned ones till February 10, 2023. The CBN stated this in a release on Sunday. The apex bank said it added “a 10-day extension of the deadline from January 31, 2023, to …

THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has admitted to detaining a Kwara journalist and lawyer on Friday. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the NSCDC spokesman in the state, Ayeni Olasunkanmi, who spoke with our correspondent on Saturday, said the agency neither detained nor assaulted any lawyer or journalist, saying, “that was …

A Nigerian, Valentine Ezike, has been arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 4-A in Barangay Biclatan, Cavite, Philippines. The Philippines News Agency on Sunday quoted a PDEA report as saying, authorities seized from Ezike of Palmdale Village, Governor’s Hill around 500 grams of suspected ‘shabu,’ …

A Delta State Magistrate Court sitting in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, has remanded a man at Ogwashi-Uku Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his girlfriend’s 17-year-old daughter. An activist handling the case, Marvin Mordi, alleged that the suspect had been molesting the victim since she was 11 years old …

THE Governors of Yobe and Kogi States, Mai Mala Buni and Yahaya Bello have condoled their colleague, Abdullahi Sule over the demise of his son, Hassan Sule. A statement by Buni’s Spokesman, Mamman Mohammed, said the governors were in Gudi, the country home of the governor to sympathize with him …

RAMPAGING gunmen struck again on Saturday night killing two soldiers and three policemen in Enugu-Ebonyi border. Newsextra24 gathered that the gunmen, who operated in a Toyota Sienna first killed the two soldiers in a checkpoint in Enugu before proceeding to the Enugu-Ebonyi border. Three policemen were said to have been …

REACTIONS have continued to trail the lingering fuel crisis across the nation as Nigerians struggle to get fuel at exorbitant rates. With no end in sight to the crisis, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate in Abeokuta South, Ogun State, Toyin Amuzu expressed worries over the fate …

OSUN State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has expressed satisfaction with the passionate show of love and rejection of the Osun guber election petition tribunal judgment. Adeleke’s reaction is coming after massive protests demonstrating support for him and the Peoples Democratic Party rocked major towns across the state. Since the Friday, January …

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the extension of the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, nationwide. During its meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, from the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Friday, the Chairman of the Commission, …