NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW THIS MORNING, ON WEDNESDAY

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1. Payment Money Banks have begun to curtail the disbursements of old N1,000 and N500 notes to their customers amid concern about whether the Central Bank of Nigeria will release the old currencies in its custody. This occurred around 24 hours after CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele said that the old N1,000, N500, and N200 notes were still valid forms of payment.

2. According to oil marketers, the discrepancy in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as gasoline, at the pump will continue to grow as a result of the products' incomplete delivery to many gas stations. There has recently been a lopsided trend in the distribution of PMS, according to dealers operating under the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria.

3. Yakubu Shehu, a representative for the Bauchi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has been listed as wanted by the Nigeria Police Force.

Anyone with information that could help in his capture is eligible for a N1 million prize, according to the police.

4. Although the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections on March 18 are more complicated, security agencies do not anticipate violence or a disruption of the process, according to National Security Advisor (NSA) Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd). During the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security on Tuesday in Abuja, Monguno made this statement (ICCES).

5. According to the Federal Government, Nigeria's February 25 presidential and national assembly elections saw a total of 12,988,978 attacks. The attacks, which targeted public websites and portals and originated from both within and outside of Nigeria, averaged over 1,550,000 per day, according to a statement released on Tuesday by Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy.

6. According to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect, he has not endorsed anyone for the National Assembly leadership. He made this statement during a gathering of the All Progressives Congress' (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) and incoming National Assembly members at the Presidential Villa in Abuja's Banquet Hall.

7. On Tuesday evening, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ordered banks to abide by the Supreme Court's decision that the old notes and the newly designed notes will both be valid until December 31, 2023. Banks started accepting the old N500 and N1,000 notes from clients yesterday as a result, without asking for the CBN cash return reference code.

8. Countless frontline anti-corruption civil society organizations, or CSOs, have resumed their campaign to remove Abdulrasheed Bawa as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, over claims that he politicized the agency, disobeyed court orders, and violated Nigerians' human rights, among other things.

9. Although there were losses in the Saturday, February 25, presidential and National Assembly elections, there were encouraging aspects to take away from the polls, according to Catriona Laing, the outgoing British High Commissioner in Nigeria.

10. Amid a worsening foreign exchange crisis, Deposit Money Banks yesterday reduced the amount of Personal Travel Allowance and school fees their customers could apply for. Several DMBS on Tuesday reduced the amount of PTA its clients can request for from $4,000 to $2,000 in an email letter to customers.