President Muhammadu Buhari has been implored to priotise the payment of the N800 billion owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, by the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan. This passionate call was made by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the…
Global electronic payments company Visa, in partnership with United Bank of Africa Plc (UBA) announces the launch of ‘SmartMoney’, a 21st century banking solution comprising a prepaid card and a mobile app for the African market. The partnership brings together Visa Inc’s trusted payments technology and SmartMoney’s mobile app experience to establish a millennial centric…
A bilateral agreement was signed on Tuesday by Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, in Abu Dhabi. According a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the pact between the two countries is to cover finance, trade and judicial matters. Adesina explained that Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs…
One of the top artistes under Olamide’s YBNL label, Lil Kesh, is now a proud owner of a recording studio. Lil Kesh, who was recently the cause of a clash between Olamide and Don Jazzy, announced this news to his teeming fans on his social media platform. According to the artiste who just dropped a…
A well-known political thug in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Alhaji Bayo Ajia, was on Tuesday murdered by some unknown hoodlums. It was gathered that about four men stormed the deceased’s workshop on Tuesday evening, kidnapped him and took him close to the State Stadium complex in the city, where he operated a car wash. He…
Last Sunday, members of a Celestial Church of Christ on Unity Street in Abule-Egba, Lagos, were left in shock when their pastor informed them that God spoke to him to set one of them ablaze to show His might. One of them identified as Madam Abosede, who agreed to be used to ‘confirm’ that God…
Oba Samuel Odulana, the Olubadan of Ibadan land, has been reported dead. The respected monarch breathed his last on Tuesday evening at his palace at the age of 101. He passed on 86 days to his birthday and his remains taken to a morgue. Oba Odulana ascended the throne in 2007 as the 39th Olubadan…
Shortly after the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, was granted bail in the sum of N400 million on Tuesday, he was driven back to Kuje Prison in the evening in a prison vehicle with registration number PS 682 AA and with inscription, Kuje Prison, FCT Command, Abuja. His bail…
As you read this, the Managing Directors of both Citi and Union Banks are running helter skelter to face their faces. This is because a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered them and 14 others to appear before it to answer criminal charges of fraudulent diversion to the tune of N10.7 billion belonging to…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail to the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh. The court ordered Metuh to pay the sum of N400 million and provide two sureties in like sum. According to the court, the sureties must live in Abuja and swear affidavit…