A TEMPORARY suspension of a travel ban linked to decade-old bribery scandals paved the way for former vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to make his Washington DC trip last month, a report in Reuters said yesterday. The report quoted diplomats and those with the trip. It …
Read More »PDP denies alleged rift over campaign funds
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday refuted allegation of disagreements in the party over the handling of its presidential campaign funds. The party made the denial in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja. It described the insinuation as laughable, infantile and diversionary, and …
Read More »JAMB registers 1.2 million candidates for 2019 examination
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered 1,205,187 candidates for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, which is scheduled to take place between Saturday, March 16 and Saturday, March 23, with Lagos and Kaduna states recording the highest registrations of 161,654 and 76,049 candidates, respectively. The board also said …
Read More »Keystone Bank introduces first ‘Cheque Deposit’ in mobile app in Nigeria
Keystone Bank Limited, Nigeria’s most innovative banking services provider, has introduced ‘Cheque Deposit’ feature in its mobile banking application, the new ‘Keystone Mobile App’. The feature which is another first from the Bank and in the Nigerian banking sector, enables customers to pay cheques into their accounts at their convenience …
Read More »Delta 2019: Why I teamed up with Ogboru – Uduaghan
Immediate-past governor of Delta State and All Progressives Congress 2019 Delta South senatorial candidate, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has revealed why he decided to team up with Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, the state APC governorship candidate to ensure all-round victory for the party in the coming elections. Speaking at the …
Read More »Osinbajo’s chopper crash-lands in Kogi
A chopper conveying Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to a campaign rally in Kogi State, crash landed in Kabba. According to a tweet by his spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, the VP and all the occupants of the chopper are safe. He said the VP continued on his campaign trip after the incident. …
Read More »NIGERIA NOW ON GROWTH TRAJECTORY, SAYS JIM OVIA
The Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia (CON), has lauded the federal government’s economic team for pulling the economy out of economic recession, acknowledging that the country’s economic outlook shows that it is now on a growth trajectory. Giving his goodwill message at the Deloitte in Dialogue Nigeria …
Read More »How Leo won a million hearts in 12 months…More than one million Africans now bank on Leo
With ever-increasing customer expectations of quick service and near real-time transactional support, United Bank for Africa (UBA) committed resources to Artificial Intelligence (AI) a year ago, birthing Leo, a Banking Chatbot that helps customers carry out key banking transactions anywhere, using mobile devices and personal computers. Leo can be …
Read More »APC to Atiku: Nigerians will never return to Egypt
The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) on Thursday declared Nigerians will never return to the era of looting of national resources and wealth. In its reaction to Wednesday night’s televised town hall meeting, The Candidates, which featured the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar …
Read More »N322m Fraud: Nwoboshi Urges Court To Stop Bank’s Official From Testifying Against Him
The trial of the embattled Senator Peter Nwoboshi, senator representing Delta North Senatorial district, was stalled Thursday, as his lawyers urged the court to stop an official of Zenith Bank Plc, from testifying in the trial. Nwoboshi alongside his two companies; Golden Touch Construction Projects Limited and Suiming Electricals are …
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