Truck drivers brought traffic on Zaria Road to a standstill yesterday after a confrontation with officials of the Nigeria Customs Service. The incident occurred at Kwanar Dawaki after customs officers reportedly shot at the tyre of a truck, forcing it to a stop, reports Daily Trust. An eyewitness stated that the shooting of the tyre […]
•Applicants for NIN Over 70 million bank customers are at risk of losing access to their accounts when the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive on restricting accounts without Bank Verification Numbers and National Identification Numbers goes into effect. The CBN had on December 1, 2023, in a circular directed that a ‘Post no Debit’ restriction...
•Bandits Scores of residents of Wurna village yesterday blocked the Katsina-Dutsinma highway in Katsina State, to protest the alleged incessant bandits’ attacks on their community. The villagers stormed the highway as early as 9 am where they set up bonfires made up of dried items, reports Saturday PUNCH. The development made many road users e...
•Kaduna-Abuja highway Residents of Gonin-Gora in the troubled Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, today, barricaded the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway while protesting the abduction of an unspecified number of people in the area. The residents stormed the highway protesting and urging the government to do something over the incessant attack...
The Nigerian Communications Commission has reiterated its directive to telecom operators to bar telephone subscribers not linked to their National Identification Numbers on or before today, Wednesday, February 28, 2024. The Executive Vice Chairman, National Communication Commission, Dr Aminu Maida, spoke at the NCC’s Special Day during the ong...
•Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital gate One thousand five hundred staff at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) stormed the hospital today in protest against their sack by the management of the hospital. The employees were yesterday asked to desist from coming to work. The enraged workers lamented that t...
•Police checkpoint Nigeria’s bad roads and other transportation infrastructure are fuelling illegal taxation, human rights violations and inflation. The development is also worsening ease of doing business, food wastage and environmental disaster. KINGSLEY JEREMIAH, in this special report by The Guardian paints a picture of the ordeal. On the ...
•Sim cards The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed MTN Nigeria, Airtel and other telecommunications firms to fully bar phone lines without National Identity Numbers and those whose NINs have not been verified. This was disclosed in a corporate notice that MTN Nigeria filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited revealing the directive ...
•Jonathan and wife, Patience Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the National Assembly (NASS) to block off-season elections in Nigeria. The ex-Nigerian leader spoke today after he cast his vote in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll at Ward 13, Polling Unit 39, at Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, reports...
•Blocked Benin-Agbor road Residents and truck drivers in Benin City, the Edo State capital, barricaded the Benin-Agbor Road, a situation that has brought vehicular movement along the road to a standstill. An articulated truck driver, who spoke to our correspondent, said the federal or state government should fix the road, insisting the road is...