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How to identify fake naira notes

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 9 December 2023 0

BY ORIAKU IJELE The Central Bank has announced that a lot of fake currencies are presently in circulation in Nigeria. So what are the easiest ways to identify the fake in the system? With all kinds of narratives about fake notes in circulation, individuals are frantic about losing their

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Her result is fake – ABU responds to petition to investigate student

Ihesiulo Grace 8 September 2021 0

A committee set up by the management of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, to ascertain the issuance of an alleged fake statement of result to one Shafa’atu Abdullahi of its Department of Physics with registration number U15PY2014 has revealed its findings. The committee revealed that the statement of result in contention clearly differs from […]

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C/River dismisses coronavirus outbreak, describe reports as fake

Ihesiulo Grace 20 March 2020 0

The Cross River state government says it has yet to record any case of the coronavirus and advised residents to disregard rumours of suspected cases. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Betta Edu, said on Friday in Calabar that the report in the social media claiming that a student of the University of Calabar tested positive to […]

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Alleged NAF killings of over 250 insurgents totally fake – Official

Ihesiulo Grace 16 February 2020 0

Abuja – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says a supposed ‘Breaking News Flash’ with the headline “Nigerian Air Force Kills Over 250 Boko Haram Fighters In Maiduguri” is totally fake. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Daramola said the […]

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Reports on Oyedepo’s visa refusal fake, false – US Embassy

Ihesiulo Grace 31 January 2020 0

THE United States of America embassy in Nigeria has said that the reports that the founder, Living Faith Church, worldwide otherwise known as Winners International, Bishop David Oyedepo was denied Visa to the United State is “Fake News and completely false.” Bishop Oyedepo was reported to have visited the Lagos Consulate of the US embassy […]

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Fake estate agent docked for allegedly defrauding 2 of N347,000

Ihesiulo Grace 14 January 2020 0

Lagos – A fake estate agent, Ojo Ogunyemi, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding two accommodation seekers of N347,000. Twenty five-year-old Ogunyemi, who resides in Mushin area of Lagos, is facing a charge of  obtaining money under false pretences, breach of peace and stealing, He, however,  pleaded not guilty to

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Beware of fake website, CBN warns public

Ihesiulo Grace 2 November 2017 0

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that its attention had been drawn to a scam being perpetrated by some fraudulent persons whereby unsuspecting members of the public are diverted to a fake website purportedly belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The CBN warned that “there is the danger of […]

Health News

NAFDAC impounds fake Eva soap, vegetable oil in Onitsha

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2017 0

Angela Onwuzoo As part of efforts to sanitise markets in Nigeria of fake drugs and other regulated products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has impounded fake and adulterated products worth over N20m at the Relief and Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) Markets, all in Onitsha, the business hub of […]

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NAFDAC arrests importer of fake insecticides worth N50m in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 19 October 2017 0

Angela Onwuzoo The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), says it has re-arrested a man identified as Mr. Obumneme Okpala a.k.a Okanu, for importing fake and unwholesome insecticides from China into the Nigerian market valued over N50m. Okpala who was earlier arrested for same offence in 2015, was apprehended at Block […]

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Fake drugs now threat to global public health – NAFDAC

Ihesiulo Grace 12 October 2017 0

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has raised the alarm over the health implications of substandard and falsified medical products, describing it as a threat to global public health. Acting Director-General of NAFDAC, Mr. Ademola Mogbojuri, who raised the alarm, said the health implications of consumption of fake drugs and […]

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Pharmaceutical society to rid Kano of fake, substandard and controlled drugs

Ihesiulo Grace 5 January 2017 0

The Chairman Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Kano State Chapter Pharmacist Gali Sule has disclosed that the body in collaboration with the Federal Government has concluded plans to rid the State of fake, substandard, expired as well as controlled drugs which have become so easy to purchase in the open markets. According to him, the uncoordinated […]