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Nigerian exporters that have not repatriated export proceeds will be barred from all banking services from January 31, the central bank said. The new directive applies to exports up until June last year, central bank spokesman, Osita Nwanisobi said by text message on Saturday. “Proceeds for oil is to be …

In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at why the Nigerian authorities are worried about social media and its impact in the era of #EndSars protests. Over the past week, some Nigerian state governors and public officials have called for some …

About 200 Nigerians have stormed their High Commission in Accra, demanding the reopening of their shops. According to the angry Nigerians, who wielded placards in front of the High Commission, their shops have been under lock for the past 10 months without any explanations from officials. They chanted slogans like …

Two members of the Nigerian Community in Buduburam, Liberia Camp, in the Central Region have been stabbed to death. The two angrily attacked another with cutlasses and machetes and led to injuries to three yet-to-be-identified guys who were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Two of them were pronounced …

ome members of the Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) on Friday, July 24, 2020, clashed with Nigerian traders who are operating illegally at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle despite GUTA’s directive for them to remain closed until they provide legal documents. The scuffle once again was about the infiltration of …

167 Nigerians who are stranded in South Africa will be evacuated on Thursday according to the Nigerian Consul General in Johannesburg, Godwin Adama.   Adama disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He said, “We are evacuating 167 stranded Nigerians from South Africa today, Thursday, June 25, Air Peace Airways …

Nationnewslead has learnt that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Saturday, June 27, added six Nigerian nationals among its most-wanted cyber criminals list. The six Nigerians who made the list on the FBI website are Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Felix Osilama Okpoh, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, Nnamdi Orson …

Six Nigerien citizens who were put under mandatory quarantine after they were arrested for attempting to use illegal routes to travel outside the country have escaped from a holding centre at Asato in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region. They were part of 37 commuters arrested at the countryside …

The Federal Government has said almost half of Nigeria’s population, about 90 million people, live in extreme poverty. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq, declared this in Abuja on Monday when she appeared before the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to …

Seven suspects, including a driver of a Nigerien-bound bus and a physically-challenged man have been arrested in Kumasi for attempting to transport 37 parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp. The suspects include Ibrahim Mumuni, 35, the Ghanaian driver and two Nigerien accomplices Adamu Isaku-48, Abubakari Janilo, 32 …