Court A Lagos based businessman, Hilary Ogbobe, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for obtaining N12.4 million by false pretence. However, the Ikeja Special Offences Court discharged and acquitted the convict’s wife, Dorothy, of accessory after the fact to a misdemeanour and held that the allegation was incomplete. Justice …

The World Health Organisation has announced that COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, while speaking at a media conference on Friday, said the global health body’s international health regulations emergency committee made the decision at its 15th meeting on Thursday. …

  Lagos, Nigeria – Wema Bank, Nigeria’s leading innovative bank, is excited to announce the top 3 contestants in its highly anticipated Sounds of ALAT competition. The competition, launched a few months ago, aimed to discover and support budding upcoming musicians across Nigeria, and give them a platform to showcase …

VP Yemi Osinbajo addressing World Economic Forum 2022 Laolu Akande, the spokesperson of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that Nigerians wanted the VP to be the president. Akande said this while speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Friday. According to him, the VP contested in the …

Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, has described as misleading, media reports of his response to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over request for refund of funds spent on building flyovers and federal roads in the state. Recall that Tinubu had last Wednesday during the commissioning of Rumuokwuta-Rumuola flyover bridge, told …

Wema Bank, Nigeria’s leading innovative bank, has launched the upgraded version of its corporate digital banking application, ALAT for Business 2.0. The launch took place on May 3rd, 2023, during the bank’s Digital Week activities themed “Changing The Digital Dynamics In Nigeria” in celebration of the bank’s anniversary. During the …

Veteran Nigerian pop musician Chris Mba, Mr. Alex Otti, the Governor-elect of Abia, has expressed sadness on the death of Mr Chris Mba, a veteran Nigerian musician who died on May 3. His condolence message is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. Mba was on the front …

Ekweremadu in UK prison Former Nigerian deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, 56, have been sentenced to imprisonment for organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted the organ for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia, the couple’s trial at the …

The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has commenced the disbursement of hundred thousand naira (N100,000) and Dignity Packs to each of the Nigerian returnees from Sudan. The money and the Dignity Packs were given out to the evacuees upon arrival at the airport in Abuja yesterday.    All the evacuees, irrespective of …

The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), has implored governments of African countries to arrest the growing cases of violent deaths against music stars on the continent just as it urged the South African authorities to expedite the process of prosecution of the killers of rapper Kiernan …