In furtherance of the need to promote the business activities of its foremost agent banking platform – Firstmonie Agents – Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider led by Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has announced the provision of loan facilities – up to one million naira – to its banking agents. The…
Year: 2021
Interview: If We Want To Know How Dubai Did It, Let Us Ask Them – Princewill Tells Youths
What informs your special interventions like the Youth Programs in Dubai & Ghana? Let’s look at Ghana and then Dubai. I took over 30 youths to Ghana and then picked the best and sponsored them to Dubai. For Ghana, I had visited Accra and noticed its cleanliness. I met a lot of people there and…
President Buhari Offers Automatic Employment, Scholarship To 110 Ex-Corps Members
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday offered automatic employment to 110 ex-corps members in the Federal Civil Service and scholarships for the pursuit of post-graduate studies up to doctoral level in any university in Nigeria. Speaking at the virtual 2018/2019 President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honours award ceremony held at the State House Conference Centre,…
Lekki Toll Gate: Lagos, Police Halt Planned Protest, Counter Rallies Over Threats Of Violence
The Lagos State Government has issued a stern warning to various opposing groups planning to embark on protests at the Lekki Toll Plaza on Saturday, advising them to shelve the plan. It is not an auspicious moment for such action, the State Government told the groups planning opposing rallies. The position of the State Government…
EFCC Arrests Five In Festac for $257,822 Credit Card Fraud
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have smashed a syndicate of alleged fraudsters who specializes in credit card fraud. The arrested suspects, Daniel C. Stephen, Nestor Ezeani, Sonny Okwaraji, Sylvester E Otuwa and Jeff Ogbonaya, allegedly masterminded the theft of $257,822.16 American Dollars from a new generation bank. The alleged fraudulent transaction…
Former Lagos Governor, Lateef Jakande Is Dead
Lateef Jakande, the first civilian Governor of Lagos State is dead. He died on Thursday morning in Lagos at the age of 91. The news of the former Governor’s death was confirmed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on his twitter handle this afternoon. Sanwo-Olu wrote, “With gratitude to God for a worthy life well spent in…
Normalcy Returns To Obalende As Police Stations In Strategic Points
The Lagos Police Command has assured citizens that normalcy has returned in the Obalende area of Lagos following a clash between rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Pandemonium broke out in the early hours of Thursday, at Obalende area of Lagos Island when sounds of gunshots were heard, thereby raising…
CBN Misled Court Into Freezing of #EndSARS Protesters’ Accounts – Falana
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) misled the court into freezing the accounts of some individuals of the ENDSARs protesters by making the court believe that some grave offenses had been committed and would require time to run an investigation. The human rights lawyer,…
EFCC Arrest 39 Yahoo Boys in Ago-Iwoye, Ilesha
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, arrested 39 internet fraud suspects, also known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo Boys’. Ten of them were arrested at Ilesha, Osun State, while Twenty-nine others were arrested in different locations at Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State. Those arrested at Ilesha are: Oyesoji Tosin,…
ENDSARS Star, Rinu Oduala, to sue CBN as Court Unfreezes Accounts
Rinu Oduala, one of the front liners in the ENDSARs protest that really shook the Nigerian Government last year is set to sue the Central Bank of Nigeria over an unlawful freezing of her accounts. She decided to take legal action against the Apex bank after a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday set…