Why Banks Suspended Payment Card Use Abroad

Facts emerged on Tuesday that banks in the country decided to stop their naira debit cards from working abroad after the Central Bank of Nigeria asked them to adopt the interbank foreign exchange rate as the basis for charging customers for foreign currency-denominated transactions.

Deposit Money Banks, including Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic IBTC Bank and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, had on Friday announced the suspension of the cash withdrawal from Automatic Teller Machines and PoS terminal transactions abroad using naira debit cards.

Mother Kills Son After He Caught Her Having Sèx With His Grandfather

Veronica Panarello throttled her son Loris Stival with electrical cables and abandoned his body in a remote gully in Santa Croce, Sicily.

Panarello had tried to pretend her son had been abducted, telling police she had taken him to school and that he had disappeared by the time she came to collect him in the afternoon.

Police began to suspect the boy’s mother, judge Andrea Reale was told, when CCTV footage at the school did not back up her story.

She was found guilty of the boy’s murder and of concealing a body.

NDLEA Arrest And Seizes N175m From Two Suspected Drug Traffickers

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested two suspected drug traffickers for allegedly laundering hard currencies estimated at about N175m from Greece and Austria.
It was learnt that the suspects – Edos Nicholas and Hallowell Lovely – were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport during the screening of passengers onboard a Turkish flight.Read more after cut........

Judge On The Run: Federal High Court Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia Busted In Fake Hospital Admission Scam

A Federal High Court judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, has been busted by detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a hospital admission racket in Lagos. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia on Wednesday morning told EFC officials by phone that she was on admission in a Lagos hospital in Ikoyi to explain away the reason she could not respond to the anti-graft agency’s invitation for interrogation in the last two days.

Five other judges, Mohammed Nasir Yunusa, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa, Appellate Court Judge, Uwani Abba-Aji, Justice Agbadu James Fishim and Musa Haruna Kurya had in the past two days responded to EFCC invitations. Some of the judges were accompanied by their lawyers and were reported to be cooperating with EFCC operatives investigating alleged corruption in Nigeria's judicial system.

I Hired Assassins For N500,000 To Kill My Husband Out Of Frustration

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old woman, Chika Orji, for allegedly paying a hired assassin N500,000 to kill her husband.
According to Vanguard, Orji was arrested by operatives from the Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, for hiring the hitmen to kill her husband of 14 years over a disagreement which led to their separation.Read more after cut...

It was gathered that the plan was truncated after one of the assassins, Bright Ikechukwu, was arrested while attempting to break into Orji's house at Jakande Estate in the area and during interrogation, confessed that Chika sent them to murder her husband.
One of those the woman contracted was identified as Ekene, a carpenter who used to work for her husband.

THE Ogun State Government Has Announced A Reshuffle In The Membership Of Its Executive Council

The exercise affected four Commissioners and four Special Advisers to the Governor.


Those affected include Ronke Sokefun, who before now was the Commissioner for Agriculture.


Sokefun moves to the Ministry of Urban and Physical Planning.


Bashorun Adebola Adeife, who used to be the Commissioner for Urban and Physical Planning, now moves to the Ministry of Inter-Governmental Affairs.

Woman Dances With Goat Strapped To Her Back (Photos+Video)

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President Buhari Meets The 21 Freed Chibok Girls (Photos)

President Buhari met with the 21 freed Chibok girls and their families at the State House, Abuja, today October 19th. More photos after the cut...

GOV FAYOSE BOWS TO GREET THE ONI OF IFE OBA ADEYEYE ENITAN OGUNWUSI

Governor Ayo Fayose pictured with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi at the Abuja Airport. The Ekiti governor was pictured respectfully greeting the Yoruba monarch.

'Omoluabi Governor Aregbesola Bowing and Curtseying To Greet The Olubadan During His Visit To Osun State. [Photos]

The Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola Tuesday received the 41st Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji in the State House, Osogbo. The monarch who was accompanied by the Ibadan High Chiefs said the visit was long desired, in order to appreciate Governor Aregbesola's expression of embrace during his coronation March this year.

Deputy Mayor Sends Nude ‘Selfie’ To WhatsApp Group. Photos

A deputy mayor in Zambia has sparked outrage after sending an unclad selfie to a WhatsApp group.  Members of Zambian ruling party (Patriotic Front) social media group -were shocked on Sunday, October 9, 2016, when their district chair lady flaunted her breasts in the forum. Beatrice Bwalya Kapansa is the newly elected deputy mayor of Mufulira and councillor for David Kaunda ward in Zambia.

Amina Augie; Female Supreme Court Justice Who Has Been Confirmed By The Senate

Kebbi state has gotten a Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Amina Adamu Augie, was confirmed on Tuesday after her nomination by president Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian Senate confirmed the appointment of Justice Ejembi Eko and Justice Amina Augie, as justices of the nation’s highest court.

Justices Eko and Augie were interviewed by the NJC to replace Justices John Fabiyi, and Muhammad Muntaka-Coomasie, following their retirement.

Woman Sends Erotic Video Message to Donald Trump in Revealing Outfit

An unidentified black woman has sent a controversial message to the United States Republican party presidential candidate, Donald Trump over the leaked conversation of him bragging about grabbing the private part of women.

The woman assumed to be of Jamaican origin due to her accent has compounded the woes of under-fire, Donald Trump who has been accused of groping women due to his privileged status in the American society.

Man Drugs And Rapes 14-Year-Old Housemaid In Lagos

The police in Lagos State have arrested a man, identified only as Nathaniel, for allegedly drugging and raping his 14-year-old housemaid in the Ikotun area of the state.

Nathaniel, who stayed on Ajisegiri Street, in the Egbe area, was arrested by the Ikotun Police Division on Sunday.

It was gathered that the suspect allegedly lured his housemaid, Chinwe (pseudonym), with a cup of juice penultimate Monday, which contained a sedative.Read more after cut...

See What Happened after Twitter User Said She Likes Hairy Men

"Life Is Too Short"; Birthday Girl Who Survived Tragic Motor Accident Says.

A lady who turned a year older today (Oct 18) shared her amazing recovery after being involved in a horrible accident... Priscilla Adedoyin also revealed she has learnt to appreciate life and love God following the incident which she believes has shaped her into a better person.

Read what she shared via her social media account;

Wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari Looks Regal In $2,000 Salvatore Ferragamo Cape Outfit to Belgium (PHOTOS)

Wife of President Buhari, Aisha, departed for Belgium today rocking a Salvatore Ferragamo multicolored zig zag cape which goes for $2,600, that is about N1.183 million going by today's exchange rate. Some people are making a fuss over it but I find it very stylish..

The Requirements To Get Married At RCCG That's Got People Talking

The list below is reportedly a mandatory guideline for couples who want to get married in Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Some of the requirements have got people murmuring..

See the complete list below...

Nigerian Woman, Faust Abolore Who Paid Man £1000, to Pose as Baby’s Daddy for a U.K Passport, Has Been Jailed

29-year Nigerian woman identified as Faust Abolore plotted to gain British citizenship by putting 44-year-old Anthony Ezekpo’s name on her son’s birth certificate, for a fee of £1000. She subsequently used it to apply for passport.

However, she was found out when photographs of the child’s real father, Nigerian national, Peter Gentry, were posted on Facebook, showing him cradling the boy at a naming ceremony.

Inner London crown court heard that Abolore got a job as a care home assistant in 2011 with a bogus Portuguese passport, and had twice been turned down for leave to remain in 2013 and 2014. 

Precious Chikwendu Denies Her Account Was Used To Launder Money

Read the statement released... 


"The assertion by one Wilson Uwa who is supposed to be the spokesman of the EFCC that Precious Chikwendu's Access Bank account was used to launder Jonathan campaign funds or funds from the NSA's office and that approximately 2.4 million naira balance was found in the said account at the time of her arrest is a lie from the pit of hell. The said account was opened in 2005 at Onitsha when Precious Chikwendu was about to start at the University of Calabar. At that time it was not known as Access Bank but Intercontinental Bank.