slideshow

  Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO Plc), is set to continue its long-running showpiece event– The Food and Drink Festival. For the 5th Edition, this headlining event will hold from Saturday, Sunday, May 1 to Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at the GTCentre, Plot 1 Water Corporation Drive, Oniru, Lagos. …

…hosted 4-day virtual empowerment seminars for teeming staff As part of its commitment to empower women to break the bias in today’s world, Heritage Bank Plc has joined forces with Fateema Mohammed Ogunkola Foundation (FAMO) in advancing women’s economic sustainability in Nigeria. This move was made known at an event …

Atlantic Hall marks its sports day. Atlantic Hall, one of Nigeria’s foremost secondary schools recently celebrated its sports day at the school grounds in Poka, Epe. In attendance were other schools from within Lagos who also participated in the games and sporting activities, see below for some pictures.  

Ecobank is in a financial mess, loses assets worth N218m over debt. It was reports that Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice O.C Agbaza has issued a writ of Execution against ECOBANK for failing to pay a debt of Two Hundred and Eighteen Million, Four Hundred and Forty …

Lelli-Ikoyi link bridge The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) Limited has disclosed plans to recommence toll operations at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge on April 1. This is coming about 18 months after tolling was suspended at the bridge in the aftermath of protests against police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Lagos …

Abba Kyari The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, bail. The agency, in a 21-paragraph counter-affidavit it lodged before the court, insisted that Kyari posed a flight risk. It …

Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba The federal government has called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike action, as according to it, it’s met all its stated demands. The government’s call comes as the academic union on Monday, decided to extend its warning strike action by two months. Chukwuemeka …

Buni, Bello Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have agreed to keep Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni as Interim Chairman of the party’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), while Niger State Governor Sani Bello functions as de facto chairman, though, in acting capacity while Buni remains away. …

Oladotun Hassan, Yerima Shettimaa Sh The Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW), an umbrella body of Yoruba youths, has berated Alhaji Yerima Shettima, president of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, for insisting that the north should retain power in 2023. The Witness had reported that Shettima, in an interview, ditched the idea of zoning, …

Osinbajo, Buhari Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s vice president, has reportedly informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for president in 2023. Daily Trust, quoting multiple sources, reported on Monday, that the VP told the president of his desire to take over from him at the expiration of his …