Ikoyi Prison Boss has been arrested by the DSS on the court premises over Emefiele custody. Truetells reports that operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested a top official of Ikoyi Prisons on the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial city. This online news platform understands that the…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) made multiple transfers totalling $616 million (over N400billion) to the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) under Major-General Babagana Monguno (retd.) between August 2016 and November 2018 in a rare practice that exposes the opaque dealings of the CBN under recently suspended Governor Godwin Emefiele. Data obtained…
Nigerian secret police, the Department of State Services, will be interrogating other top directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its ongoing probe of its suspended governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to the DSS, other officials lined up are also a Special Adviser to Emefiele, and senior personnel in the CBN Procurement Department, who…
Sources have disclosed that the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, will not be prosecuted following his arrest by the Department of State Service (DSS). Truetells Nigeria reports that this comes amidst the controversies trailing the arrest, detention, and whereabouts of Emefiele after his suspension on Friday evening. Recall…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has admitted that Nigerians are experiencing difficulties in carrying out online banking transactions due to the deluge of online transactions that hit Nigeria’s banking industry. Emefiele said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the two-day meeting of the committee in Abuja on Tuesday when…
Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomole, has kicked against President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision on the naira redesign policy. While speaking at a political gathering at Jattu Market in Auchi, Edo North on Tuesday, February 21, Oshiomole said President Buhari is on his own following his insistence on the…
The outspoken Catholic priest and Chaplain of the Adoration Chaplaincy Enugu, Southeast Nigeria, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka, has warned that the current naira crisis will mar the forthcoming general elections if the scarcity of the notes is not addressed and fixed immediately. Mbaka who spoke during the First Sunday ministration at Adoration Ground lamented that…
Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, the second man in the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, has described as “disturbing” the inability of Nigerians to have access to the new naira notes and the ongoing naira scarcity which has caused protest nationwide. Osinbajo on Friday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to engage financial technology…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the use of the old notes till February 10. Advertisement CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the extension in a statement signed on Sunday. Details shortly… Advertisement
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has threatened to issue warrants of arrest for the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and the managing director of any commercial bank that fails to honour the invitation by the House. The lawmakers and Emefiele seem to be at loggerheads over…
