First, he froze in terror, then he blacked out. Aliyu Sani, 45, woke up in a filthy camp in the Bingi forest in Zamfara, a state at the heart of terror attacks in Nigeria’s North West. He was among scores of people abducted when menacing terrorists ransacked his village in Maru, firing a hail of […]
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Less than 24 hours after a masked gang attacked Charles Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), at a town hall meeting in his native town in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, Police in the state said they have arrested one suspect in connection with the attack. Ikenga Tochukwum, the police spokesperson […]
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The cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, says it has added NGN/FIAT to its Peer to Peer (P2P) trading in Nigeria. ChangPeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, had promised the company would launch a P2P market in the wake of the ban. The trading ban imposed by the Nigerian Central Bank has created a lot of outrage and […]
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital Wednesday, ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to unfreeze the accounts of 20 people linked with anti-police brutality protests known as #EndSARS. In an apparent crackdown on protesters last October, the apex bank placed a ban on 20 young Nigerians’ accounts believed to be promoters of […]
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Nigerians are reacting to the directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that financial institutions close all accounts dealing with cryptocurrency exchanges. The CBN had in a statement directed financial institutions in the country to immediately close all accounts dealing with cryptocurrency exchanges. They accused the government of targeting #ENDSARS promoters through the policy. […]
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