MAN BRUTALISES HIS PREGNANT WIFE IN ANAMBRA . (VIDEO/PHOTO).
Man brutalises his pregnant wife in Anambra In another case of domestic violence, a pregnant woman was brutally beaten by her husband in Ichi, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State. The mother of three identified as Chinelo Francis, from Ebonyi State, said trouble began when she requested money from her husband, Peter, to prepare food. According to the young woman, she had already bought vegetable with the profit she made from her shop. Peter, also from Ebonyi, claimed he didn’t make money that day and took the children home. He returned to her shop at around 8:00 PM and insisted she close up and come home with him. She refused, explaining that the time was when she typically made most of her sales. Later, she closed up her shop, went home at 9:30 PM, prepared the children for bed, and retired. The interviewer urged her to go straight to the point, asking when the assault occurred. The woman said it happened that night. The attack left...
Banks are seeking customers to buy surplus foreign currencies they hold following the flooding of the banks with dollars by the Central Bank of Nigeria {CBN}.In an effort to support and shore-up the value of Naira,CBN resolved to flood commercial banks with dollars.The banks are reported to be holding excess forex and were seeking customers to buy the foreign currencies.The banks have cleared the backlog of requests for foreign currencies for basic travel allowance,school fees and medicals.In a data released by the CBN,the apex bank,within three weeks,injected more than 1.4 billion dollars for both wholesale and retail intervention into the interbank Forex market.Mr Ayo Teriba,Chief Executive Officer,Economic Associates,is optimistic that the CBN would be able to sustain its intervention on the forex market.Teriba told NAN that increase in oil production and high oil prices had increased the foreign reserve base of the country,''We are back to a situation where the forex at the disposal of the CBN is likely to go up.The CBN could not intervene in the forex market in 2016 because of low oil production,prices and because foreign reserves were also low.Today,oil price is up,reserves have also gone up,the outlook of the oil prices is stable and production in Nigeria is going back to capacity; so it has the capacity to intervene.In a couple of months,the apex bank should be able to meet all of the demands and all the multiple exchange rates will converge.
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