Author: Opalim Lifted

The window for exchanging old naira notes for new ones has closed, as reported by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which announced yesterday that the deadline of February 10 has passed. It also cited a number of other causes for the difficulties in getting access to new notes, including “our leaders who are buying and keeping the notes” and “reprehensible conduct of miscreants” at bank facilities. However, the CBN pledged to make “suitable optimal amounts of currency of N500, N200, N1000 denomination and even the existing N100 note, N50, and N20 to promote economic activities” available. The bank also…

Since Abloh’s passing in late 2021, Pharrell Williams will be Louis Vuitton’s first permanent head of menswear. However, Pharrell’s role as creative director differs from that of Abloh at Louis Vuitton, where his title was “artistic director.” The design superpower verified the rumors in an Instagram post and complimented Pharrell as “a visionary whose creative universes transcend from music to art, and to fashion.” Also warmly commended was Pharrell’s accomplishment of “establishing himself as a cultural global star over the previous twenty years.” The company also went on to laud Pharrell Williams as an individual who continually “breaks boundaries across…

Gbenga Ezekiel, a senior secondary school student from Ijapo High School in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, has entered his record for the most skips in one minute on one leg in the Guinness Book of World Records. In his effort, Ezekiel recorded 265 skips, breaking Rasel Islam of Bangladesh’s previous record of 262 skips. About four months after the 16-year-old’s first efforts at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure, it was established as a record. The feat was communicated to the national coach of the Nigeria Rope Skipping Federation, Chubuisi Ukandu, and has also been updated on…

The allegation that the Federal Government or the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had refused to recognize the old N200, N500, and N1,000 naira notes as lawful currency in spite of the Supreme Court judgment has been rejected by the Presidency as untrue. On behalf of their populations, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Kogi had petitioned the Supreme Court of Nigeria for justice, challenging the CBN deadline of February 10 for the discontinuation of old naira notes as legal currency. In its decision on February 8, the Supreme Court ordered all parties to maintain the status quo and revoked the February 10,…

According to Prof. Darlington Obaseki, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), the facility performed its first open heart surgery in January 2023. This was said by Obaseki on Tuesday in Benin during the launch of 50%-subsidized specialized surgeries as a part of celebrations for the hospital’s 50th anniversary, which will be held in May. The CMD said that Mr. Phillip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo, has reduced the medical fee for one of the three patients who underwent open heart surgery. He commended the deputy governor for being a pillar of support…

A total of 15 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who had just finished their orientation in Imo were kidnapped, but police officers in Anambra rescued them. When they were kidnapped, the corps members from the NYSC orientation camp at Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre, Local Government Area of Imo, were in a car traveling to Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Anambra, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Awka. He claimed that around 12:15 in the morning, police officers reacted to a distress call along the Isseke, Ihiala-Orlu expressway and rescued the 15…

On Tuesday, artisanal fishermen in the Niger Delta who operate along the Atlantic coast bemoaned the difficulties they had been experiencing since the CBN’s cashless policy had made their line of work impossible. Rev. Samuel Ayadi, the Niger Delta Coordinator for the Artisanal Fisherman Association of Nigeria (ARFAN), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa that the lack of gasoline and money had severely hurt fishermen. He claimed that ever since the CBN implemented a 20,000 maximum daily withdrawal, fishermen had been unable to collect the funds necessary to fuel their outboard motors for fishing expeditions. He said…

Nigerians are being urged by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) to use the Valentine’s Day celebration in 2023 to demonstrate their love for their country and for one another, which will aid in national rebirth and peace. The counsel was given at the Patriotism Orientation Programme at Government Secondary School, Gosa, Abuja by the Director-General of NOA, Dr. Garba Abari. According to Abari, the program’s goal is to encourage kids in Nigeria this Valentine’s to use the internet safely. The director-general claimed that Nigeria and its people had noticed a troubling tendency in social and political discourse that occasionally questioned…

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) said on Monday that they have no interest in the upcoming general elections and that they are nothing more than a jamboree. The outlawed separatist organization claimed in a statement on Monday that all it needed was a referendum to exit Nigeria. But it distanced itself from the ongoing INEC infrastructure attacks in several South-Easterly regions, particularly in the Anambra State Ihiala Local Government Area and the Imo State Orsu Local Government Area. The IPOB spokesman also disowned a rumored fresh sit-at-home order in the South-East. Powerful said, “IPOB condemns the recent attacks on…

Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old student at Chrisland School, died while competing in inter-house sports at Agege Stadium in the state’s Agege district. The Lagos State Government on Monday ordered a coroner’s inquest to determine the cause of death. The state’s attorney general and commissioner for justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), made the announcement in a statement and promised a thorough inquiry to determine Whitney’s cause of death. “In accordance with Sections 14 and 15 of the Coroners’ Systems Law, Laws of Lagos State 2015, a coroner’s inquest has been immediately requested to ascertain the cause and circumstances of death. “By Section…