Nigeria’s premier Bank and leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has in 2019, been conferred with multiple awards cutting across the industry. The Bank which is also commemorating its 125 years anniversary has been widely commended for re-inventing itself and being nimble in its service delivery, whilst painstakingly adapting to the dynamic…
Senator Ahmad Lawan, representing Yobe North, has been elected as Senate President. Lawan defeated Senator Ali-Ndume with 79 votes, out of the total of 107 votes cast. While Lawan polled 79 votes, Ndume polled 28 votes. The Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, made the announcement in Abuja. Announcing the result, the Clerk…
The Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture is out to support and promote diligent and sustainable endeavours aimed at value reorientation , cultural rejuvenation and arts resucitation among the youths in Ekiti State The Director General ,Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture , Wale Ojo Lanre made this assurance while playing host to…
The National Broadcasting Commission on Thursday announced the suspension of the licences of the African Independent Television and Ray Power FM belonging to the Daar Communications Limited. The NBC Director-General, Dr Modibbo Kawu, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja, saying the Daar Communication Limited’s media houses’ shutdown was until further notice. The offences…
Since Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State lost in his bid to installed his candidate as the governor of the Pacesetters state at the April polls, he and his wife have been moving huge sums of money in batches from the Government House. Firstly, a whopping 500million naira was moved to their Oluyole residence intact….
Ahead of the 2020 governorship election in Edo State, the supporters of Governor Godwin Obaseki and Comrades Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC have drawn battle lines in the state. This is in attestation to the face-off between both political gladiators. The APC in Edo North senatorial district has vowed to…
Nigerians and other stakeholders have been yearning and agitating for a National Carrier project, since the collapse of Nigerian Airways about 15 years ago. In view of this, a merger between two local airlines, Arik and Aero Contractors was proposed, but the Federal Government has foreclosed the possibility. Mr Hadi Sirika, the Minister of State…
Fuji music legend, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as K1, has described female musician, Barrymade as a spoilt child who lacks good home training. K1, while reacting to a claim by Barrymade that he was the late Sikiru Ayinde Barrister’s laundry man, said it is an uncouth statement from a child who is morally…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Chairman Dr Ishaq Modibbo Kawu and two others were recently arraigned before Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja for the N2.5billion fraud charge preferred against them. The others are Pinnacle Communications Limited (PCL) Chairman Lucky Omoluwa and the Chief Operating Officer Dipo Onifade. They were accused of…
The current predicament of Wale Tinubu, the controversial Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Oando PLC by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has only portrayed the popular parlance of ‘everyday for the thief, one day for the owner.’ On Friday, the SEC announced the dismissal of Wale Tinubu and other directors of Oando over…
