The Informant247 Nigeria News has compiled a list of the top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Monday, February 6, 2022.
I would have issued warrant for Emefiele’s arrest over the new currency policy – Gbajabiamila
Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker, House of Representatives, has said that he would have signed a warrant for the arrest of the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele had it been he failed to honoured the invitation of House regarding the current scarcity of the new naira notes.
Naira crisis: Video shows Ekiti bank hoarding N6m
A monitoring team of the Ekiti branch of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has accused a bank in Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State of hoarding new naira notes it had collected for almost two weeks, while claiming that their automated teller machines were not yet configured.
Police arrest 10 Yoruba Nation agitators, dismantle camp in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has on Sunday arrested 10 suspected suspected Yoruba Nation agitators over unlawful assembly.
The Command also dismantled a protest camp set up by the agitators at Alausa in Ikeja ahead of the planned nationwide anti-Buhari disturbance billed to commence February 6.
Politicians planning to assassinate Atiku – IPOB alleges
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Sunday alleged that there was a grand plot to assassinate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to IPOB, desperate politicians and unscrupulous elements were plotting to attack the former Vice President, blaming it on its security arm, the Eastern Security Network.
Three killed as two-storey building collapse in Rivers
Three persons have been killed when a building under construction caved in along Isi Ewu road, Nbodo Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Informant247 gathered that the victims were labourers working at the site of the two-storey building, adding that others sustained various degrees of injury and were rushed to the hospital in an incident that occurred on Saturday night.
Naira crisis: Kaduna govt insists on e-payment in hospitals
The Kaduna State government has told the management of all public hospitals to adhere to the law banning cash payments and accept electronic cash transfers.