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  LAGOS, NIGERIA – 30th December 2022 – Wema Bank PLC (Bloomberg: Wema NL) (“Wema” or “the Bank”) announces retirement of its Managing Director/CEO. · Managing Director/CEO Ademola Adebise to retire from Wema Bank Plc; with effect from March 31, 2023. · Moruf Oseni, current Deputy Managing Director appointed as …

Bala Mohammed Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State, has asked residents of communities that were recently attacked in Alkaleri Local Government Area to rise up, take up arms and defend themselves against the bandits. The governor stated this Thursday at the Palace of the District Head of Yelwan Duguri, Alh …

Tawa Williams Tawa Williams, the project consultant of the Ilesa Water Project, has alleged that the Osun State House of Assembly members demanded $5million as bribe. Ademola Adeleke, the state governor governor, earlier directed the immediate suspension of Williams over alleged questionable handling of $106million dollar loan for the project. …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised to organise what would be known as the freest and fairest election in Africa, in Nigeria in 2023. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, said this at the 2022 Calabar Carnival, while sensitising Nigerians on …

Retired Colonel Abdulmumini Aminu, former Military Governor of Borno State, says Nigerians will vote massively for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2023, because it is time for the South to rule. “Nigerians are tired of us from the North, especially because we have …

Drambi Vandi Drambi Vandi, the police officer, who shot dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem on Christmas Day has appeared before the Magistrate Court in Yaba. Vandi appeared in court on Friday, days after he shot and killed Raheem on Christmas Day. The inspector general of police, Usman Baba had …

Pele The body of Pele, the greatest football player of all time, will be laid to rest at the home of Santos, where he enchanted the world. Pele, who died at the age of 82 on Thursday, will go straight from the Albert Einstein Hospital to Estádio Urbano Caldeira in …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele who died on Thursday. The world’s greatest ever football player succumbed to death after suffering a debilitating bout of cancer. He won three …

Pele, the Brazil football legend and three-time World Cup winner, has died at the age of 82. He passed away on Thursday. His daughter, Kely Nascimento, confirmed the news on Instagram, writing: “Everything we are is thanks to you. We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.” Edson Arantes do Nascimento, …

Dr Chikezie Obasi, a public affairs analyst, says the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections will lose if the G-5 Governors eventually pitch their tents with Ahmed Bola Tibubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress. Obasi stated this in Enugu on Friday while speaking …