One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by volume, Binance, has removed naira from its trading pairs after the Central Bank of Nigeria asked banks and other financial institutions to close the accounts used for cryptocurrency operations. Binance made this known in a statement sent to traders
Some youths have threatened to hold a fresh protest at the Lekki tollgate over plans to reopen it for operations. It was gathered that they have begun to mobilise on social media with #RevolutionNow and #OccupyLekkiTollGate, with the matter trending as number one and three on
The Leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, has said that the red chamber will discuss the issue of Fulani herdsmen menace across the country on resumption on Tuesday. Abdullahi, who spoke with journalists in his office, said his deputy who is representing Ondo North in the
The Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos State Governor, Gboyega Akosile, has reacted to the planned protest slated for Saturday, February 13, 2020, against the reopening of the Lekki tollgate in the state. The organisers of the protest are angered by a ruling for the tollgate
A Republican congressman from Texas who was being treated for Covid-19 has died, his office said Monday, the first sitting member to lose his life after battling the coronavirus. House of Representatives lawmaker Ron Wright, 67, who had also suffered from cancer in recent years, died
A Guinean court sentenced an opposition activist and dual Canadian citizen to five years in prison Monday, the latest jailing of a critic of President Alpha Conde. The sentencing of Mamadi Conde, who is known as ‘Madic 100 Frontier’, comes after the president won a third
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The Cross River State governor Prof Ben Ayade has sworn in Justice Akon Ikpeme as substantive Chief Judge of the state. She was confirmed as Chief Judge by the state House of Assembly on January 28, 2021, which had earlier declined to confirm her twice after
The nurses at the Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State on Monday staged a protest on the premises of the hospital over the alleged beating of their colleagues by some relatives of a dead patient. It was gathered that the relatives of the dead patient, who
The floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange opened this week on a negative note, as investors lost seventy- four point four billion naira. The equity capitalization on Friday was twenty –one point eight -one trillion naira, and fell to twenty-one point seven-four trillion on Monday, a