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New CBN restrictions on weekly cash withdrawal limits come into effect as from today

FRESH withdrawal limits on the amount of cash Nigerians can take out from their banks as a result of the recent redesigning of the nation's currency come into effect today with individuals and corporate organisations restricted to N500,000 and N5m respectively.

 

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AIT boss Raymond Dokpesi released on bail after being briefly detained at Heathrow Airport

NIGERIAN media mogul Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been released by the UK authorities following a recent incident which led to his brief detention at the London Heathrow Airport yesterday .

 

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Southampton has initial £8m bid for Super Eagles striker Terem Moffi rejected by Lorient

ENGLISH Premier league side Southampton have had a €10m (£8m) bid for Nigerian striker Terem Moffi rejected by his French club Lorient in the first major move for a Super Eagles during this January transfer window.

 

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As a starting point for their campaigns, all the gubernatorial candidates in Kogi and Delta states should pledge to twin Ajaokuta and Aladja with Sheffield in the UK 

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Sheffield has ranked among the top 10 UK cities as a business location

[2 It now aims to regenerate itself as a modern technology and sports based city

[3] Sheffield has an international reputation for metallurgy and steel-making. It was this industry that established it as one of England's main industrial cities during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

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About 30 passengers and railway staff abducted as kidnappers hijack train in Edo State

NIGERIA'S railway network has become the subject of another high profile terrorist attack after armed kidnappers attacked the Igueben train sub-station in Edo State and abducted 30 passengers and Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff.

 

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If you ask me, it is totally unacceptable that the world’s largest black nation with a population of 200m is not on this exclusive list. Our new sports minister should be given until 2030 to resolve this

Ayo Akinfe 

1930 - Uruguay 
1934 - Italy 
1938 - Italy 
1950 - Uruguay 
1954 - Germany 
1958 - Brazil 
1962 - Brazil 
1966 - England 
1970 - Brazil 
1974 - Germany 
1978 - Argentina 
1982 - Italy 
1986 - Argentina 
1990 - Germany 
1994 - Brazil 
1998 - France 
2002 - Brazil 
2006 - Italy 
2010 - Spain 
2014 - Germany 
2018 - France 
2022 - Argentina

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CBN instructs commercial banks to stop paying out new naira notes over the counter

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have instructed commercial banks across the nation not to pay out the new naira mores to customers over the counter so that they have enough to load their automated teller machines (ATM) machines with.

 

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Iwobi's dad reveals that his son will only be out of action for two weeks with his ankle injury

ALEX Iwobi's father has dismissed fears that his son will face a lengthy time on the sidelines after picking up an ankle injury yesterday at Old Trafford when Everton faced Manchester United pointing out that he should only be out for about two weeks.

 

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Nigeria’s presidential candidates should find out how Germany went from total ruins in 1945 to becoming a global economic power again within a decade

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] At the end of World War Two in 1945, Germany was basically one huge bomb crater. All her cities lay in ruins. However, by 1954, just nine years later, the country had fully recovered and believe it it not, West Germany actuality won the Fifa World Cup

[2] Most shockingly, Germany managed to develop herself into the world’s third largest economy behind the US and Japan 

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Operators in Nigeria's oil and gas industry given seven days to reveal their true owners

LEASE and licence holders operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector have been given seven days by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC)  to disclose the real owners of their companies or face sanctions.

 

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