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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says court has not yet fixed a date for hearing on a lawsuit it slammed against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over unlawful regulations on customers’ social media handles. SERAP suit is anchored on “The failure to delete the patently unlawful provisions in the Central Bank of Nigeria (Customer Due Diligence) Regulations directing banks to obtain information on customers’ social media handles for the purpose of identification.” The CBN had last month issued a circular mandating banks and other financial institutions to implement and comply with the mandatory provisions on customers’ social media…

Parents of wards in Unity Secondary Schools in Nigeria are facing tough times following Federal Government’s increment of school fees. By the new arrangement, the parents would pay ₦100,000 per student as tuition fee following the decision of President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to increase such fees. Tinubu administration had, on May 29, withdrawn fuel subsidy and raised the price now to N617 a litre, thus exposing many Nigerians to untold economic hardships. Also read: Parents, school differ over death of SS3 student in Akwa Ibom This directive came in a circular from the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) and…

A four-year-old child survived as his parents, grandmother and apprentice died after inhaling poisonous fumes from a generator in Anambra State.  A trader, Ifeanyi, his wife, Amaka, two children, mother-in-law and apprentice were confirmed dead. The spokesperson for the Anambra State Police -Public Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident to Punch on Friday, July 21, 2023, said the police were yet to unravel the real circumstances surrounding their death. Also read: Suspected organs’ harvester in Anambra police net- Commissioner “The matter is still being investigated and the details will be communicated as soon as investigation is concluded,” the PPRO…

The Federal Government, States and Local Government Areas shared N907.054 billion in June, the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) said.   In a communiqué issued at the end of FAAC meeting for July 2023, the Federal Government got N345.564 billion, State Governments received N295.948 billion and Local Government Councils collected N218 billion.   A statement by FAAC’s spokesman, Bawa Mokwa, on Thursday said the meeting was chaired by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr. Oluwatoyin Madein.   Mokwa stated that the N907.054 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N301.501 billion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has rescued two underage girls forced into prostitution in a hotel in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. In a statement issued to journalists in Uyo on Thursday, July 20, 2023, spokesperson of the Corps in the state, DSC Ekerete Friday, said operatives raided the hotel on Saturday, July 15, following intelligence by another teenager who escaped from the hotel. According to the statement, the rescued girl had been taken from her parents and employed as a sales attendant in the Bar/Restaurant section of the hotel. She dutifully carried out…

After two months in the office, Governor Umo Bassey Eno has returned the 22 Commissioners, who served the immediate past governor of the state, Udom Emmanuel Governor, to his cabinet. Eno who had professed last month to go with people who worked with him in the trenches has disappointed many lobbyists who ‘‘wanted to crash is telephone with several calls for appointments and wanted to distract him from working.’’ However, Eno has infused his cabinet with Special Adviser nominee. The letter dated 19th July, 2023, addressed to the Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Udeme Otong…

The Cross River Police Command has arrested a 54-year-old man for allegedly beating his girlfriend to death in Calabar South Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Wednesday. She said that the suspect attacked the victim, simply identified as Ndereke, after a minor disagreement that occurred at Abasi Obori Street on Tuesday. Ugbo said the personnel of Uwanse Divisional Police Headquarters carried out the arrest on arriving at the scene, following a distress call received on the incident. “The police rushed the…

As a move to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has assured Nigerian workers of Federal Government’s readiness to review the salaries of its workers. Akpabio gave the assurance when the Governor of Ekiti State, Abiodun Oyebanji and members of the National Assembly from the state paid him a courtesy call. He said the removal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration was to address corruption in the petroleum sector, noting that the fuel subsidy removal was the beginning of fighting corruption in the system. According to him, “Nigeria as…

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has expressed sadness over the alleged killing of a two-year-old child in Delta State. Ivan Omhonrina was killed by a stray bullet during an operation by officers of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. A statement released by his media aide, Dele Alake, Tuesday, July 18, President Tinubu directed the NDLEA management to speedily and thoroughly investigate the incident with a view to punishing those found culpable. Tinubu charged security agents to be more professional and careful when conducting their operations to avoid risking…

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command, Tuesday, saved two suspected thieves who were about being set ablaze by mob.  A press statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko MacDon, in Uyo said Ubong Sunny Ossom of Ikot Edebe village in Nsit Atai LGA, accused of stealing two bottles of Campari at Godslight Supermarket, Ekpene Ukim, in Uruan LGA, was about to be burnt alive when the police patrol team arrived. Similarly, Christian Effiong of Nung Atai village in Okobo LGA, who stole a generator at Mount Zion Church Ikot Ambon in Ibesikpo Asutan LGA, was also rescued by…