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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has revised timelines for reversals and/or resolution of refund complaints on electronic channels especially on Automated Teller Machines (ATM). The revised timelines will take effect from June 8, 2020. According to a statement issued on Sunday, the apex bank noted that with regards to failed “On-Us” ATM transactions (when customers use their cards on their bank’s ATMs) shall be instantly reversed from the current timeline of three days. Also, “where instant reversal fails due to any technical issue or system glitch, the timeline for manual reversal shall not exceed 24 hours” the CBN said.…

Former Kaduna State military governor, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, has written a strongly-worded open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging his skewed appointments will bring ruin and destruction to Nigeria. In the letter titled: ‘Mr President; Please belong to all of us’ Umar stated Nigeria has become dangerously polarised and risk sliding into crisis on account of Buhari’s lopsided appointments. He accused the President giving undue preference to some sections of the country over others in his appointments. Col. Umar, who wrote the letter in reaction to the celebration of the President’s 5th year in office. The letter dated 31st…

An APC chieftain, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze says there is no rift between national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole, Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi. He described reports on social media credited to Mr. Godstime Orlukwu, a former CTC chairman of Emohua Local Government Area and an ardent supporter of Amaechi as fictitious and a cocktail of lie, emanating from men of the underworld. In a press statement, Eze, an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) condemned the propagators of the false report, stressing that it has…

England’s Jadon Sancho scored the first hat-trick of his career on his first start since the Bundesliga resumed as Borussia Dortmund thrashed Paderborn. After an uneventful first half, Thorgan Hazard put Dortmund ahead with a tap-in before Sancho slotted home his first goal since 29 February. Sancho added the third after Uwe Hunemeier’s penalty reduced the bottom side’s deficit before Achraf Hakimi and Marcel Schmelzer made it 5-1. He got his third in stoppage time. Bayern beat Dortmund to close in on title The 20-year-old is the first English player to score an overseas hat-trick in one of Europe’s major…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 307 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Sunday. The 307 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed cases to 10162. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 151 patients from isolation centers across the country with 14 new deaths reported. Nigeria announces 553 new coronavirus cases Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria topped the number of confirmed cases with 188 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 4943. The Federal Capital Territory reported…

…dares Commission to provide corruption evidence against lawmakers to EFCC, ICPC Senator Akinola Bashiru, spokesman of the Senate, has said that the National Assembly will under no circumstance back down on its probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This was just as the spokesman dared the Commission to provide evidence of alleged corruption claims against lawmakers of the Senate and House of Representatives to anti-graft agencies for investigation. Ajibola made the official position of the upper chamber known in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. According to the lawmaker, no amount of blackmail against lawmakers or the…

Ekiti State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party and Governor Kayode Fayemi at the weekend exchanged verbal invective over alleged sale of the Governor’s Lodge in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The opposition PDP, had in a statement in Ado-Ekiti by the Secretary of the PDP Caretaker Committee in Ekiti, Diran Odeyemi, accused the Governor of selling off the building to an undisclosed investor, an action the party described as financial recklessness and misgovernance. It alleged that the Fayemi–led All Progressives Congress administration got the state government to buy a property belonging to him in Abuja to be converted to…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has ordered thorough investigation into the death of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level student of the Department of Microbiology, University of Benin (UNIBEN), in Ikpoba Hill, Benin City. Miss Omozuwa was alleged to have been raped after her head was smashed with a fire extinguisher at a Pentecostal church in Benin, which consequently led to her death. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said Governor Obaseki has mandated the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other relevant security agencies to fish out the culprits,…

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) has arrested a 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos for attempting to blackmail of Queen Salawa Abeni with nude photographs. The suspect, Olufowoke Oladunjoye Emmanuel, a resident of Brentfield Avenue, Peace Estate, Magboro, Ogun State, was picked up by the Decoy Team of Rapid Response Squad last week Thursday after three days of monitoring him. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu had in the wake of the blackmail against Alhaja Salawa Abeni sometime in April 2020, directed the Commander, Rapid Response Squad, DCP Olatunji Disu to fish out…

Gunmen have abducted four persons along the Lagos-Asaba Road near Agbor town in Delta State, media reports have said. The incident took place at Boji-Boji Owa in Ika North-East Local Government Area of the state on Friday evening. The Railway Bridge area along the Benin-Onitsha expressway has come under hoodlums attack in recent times. It was learnt the abducted persons were inspecting a parcel of land around the area. A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “The four victims were inspecting a parcel of land area the Railway Bridge when the gunmen with sophisticated weapons ambushed them. They…