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The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, said on Tuesday the bank is ready to assist its Gambian counterpart to print the country’s currency. Emefiele disclosed this when the Governor of Central Bank of Gambia, Mr. Buah Saidy, led the bank’s delegation on a two-day visit to the country. The CBN governor was responding to a request by his Gambian...

Parents of the abducted pupils of Tanko Salihu Islamiyya School, Tegina, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have resorted to begging in churches and mosques in the community to raise the ransom demanded by their children kidnappers. Bandits had on May 30 abducted 150 children from the school. They, however, released 11 children 24 hours later. A member of the community,...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Wednesday, announced the successful expansion of the existing Polling Units across the country from 119,974 to 176,846 full-fledged Polling Units. Consequently, 749 Polling Units were relocated from inappropriate locations to appropriate public facilities or open spaces in line with “our policy to guarantee unencumbered access to Polling Units for all voters.” Out of this figure,...

The House of Representatives and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) on Tuesday clashed over the whereabouts of the $44 million recovered from the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA) by Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) at a residential apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, four years ago. The disagreement came to the fore during an investigative hearing by the House...

The United States on Tuesday recorded 600,000 deaths from COVID-19, data from Johns Hopkins University has revealed. However, the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and gives the country a renewed optimism as they look forward to summer. The average number of COVID-19 deaths each day in the past week was 343, which is about five times higher than...

Politician and one-time presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba has revealed reason for the removal of his Crowwe App on Playstore by Google. Recall that Google on Monday, June 14, deleted Crowwe App days after federal government suspended Twitter. Vanguard learnt some aggreived Nigerians had taken to Playstore to discredit the app following the suspension of Twitter. “We took down Crowwe App because we...

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo has announced the introduction of a policy that would insure the lives of personnel of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in the state. Uzodinma made this disclosure during his visit to the Police Command Headquarters in Owerri, on Tuesday. He was at the command to commiserate with the NPF over the officers who lost their lives...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday flagged off the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7, a project he said would help propel Nigeria as a major gas exporter and a fully industrialised nation. Project promoter, NLNG, says the project would attract $12 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Buhari, who launched the project virtually during the ground-breaking ceremony held in Bonny...

The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Cross River chapter, Mr Ben Ukpepi, has regained freedom from his abductors, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Ukpepi, who was released on Sunday evening after being in captivity for six days, was kidnapped in his residence in Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River, near Calabar. Police Public Relations Officer in the state,...

Farmers in Ekiti State have accused monarchs and political elites in the state of aiding criminal herdsmen on the incessant attacks, abduction of farmers and the destruction of their farmlands and crops. The Chairman of the state chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (ALAN), Adeniran Alagbada, while presenting a paper at the “Statewide Security Conference” organised by Ekiti...