Pep Guardiola lauded Manchester City’s stars and title rivals Liverpool after Sunday’s breathless comeback victory secured a fourth Premier League triumph in five years and sparked bedlam. A decade on from Sergio Aguero sealing the crown in a jaw-dropping 3-2 final day win, a rocking Etihad Stadium witnessed similar drama. …
Read More »Hayatu-deen: Nigeria’s economy now like a cancer patient
As part of his presidential campaign tour to delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, an aspirant, Mohammed Hayatu-deen, has likened the state of Nigeria’s economy to that of a cancer patient. The aspirant spoke in Ogun and Lagos States with a message of hope to rebuild and revamp the ailing …
Read More »2023: Osinbajo meets Kaduna APC delegates behind closed door
Yemi Osinbajo Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s vice president on Sunday night held a closed-meeting with Kaduna State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates and other stakeholders to seek their votes ahead of the party’s presidential primaries. The vice president who is one of the APC presidential aspirants, arrived at Umaru Musa Yar’Adua …
Read More »N80bn Fraud: Buhari Appoints Nwabuoku As ‘Acting’ Accountant General
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Imo State- born Anamekwe Nwabuoku to oversee the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. Nwabuoku’s appointment comes on the back of the ongoing investigation of the Ahmed Idris, the disgraced Accountant General who, allegedly, stole N80 billion from the Federal …
Read More »Anambra: More Troubles For Soludo As Gunmen Kill Mother, Her Four Children, Two Others
For the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo, it’s a journey from one nightmare to another. That has been his life, and the state of his State, in the past couple of weeks. He thought the limit was the beheading, on Saturday, May 21, 2022, of Honourable Okechukwu Okoye, …
Read More »2023: South-east APC Presidential Aspirants Agree To Support Any Of Them (If) Chosen By APC To Run
In a very watery communique issued on Sunday, South-east Presidential Aspirants under the All Progressives Congress, APC, agreed to, totally, support any of them chosen by their Party to run for the office of the President in 2023. The seven of them, including the only woman, Barr. (Mrs) Uju Ken …
Read More »Sterling Bank signs MoU with optometrists on funding, capacity building
Lagos, Nigeria, May 22, 2022: Sterling Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Optometrist Association (NOA) to automate operations, enhance capacity and provide funding at competitive interest rates for members of the association. Speaking at the signing ceremony of the MoU in …
Read More »FIRSTBANK REWARDS CUSTOMERS IN ITS FIRSTMOBILE CASH-OUT PROMO
In collaboration with Interswitch, FirstBank has launched a promo to reward users of the FirstMobile app, its industry-leading mobile banking application. The promo tagged FirstMobile Cash-out Promo will run for 3 months. The promo, which started on Monday, 21st March 2022 will end on Tuesday, 21st June 2022. Various prizes …
Read More »Nigerians spent $221m on foreign education in three months – CBN
Nigerians spent not less than $220.86 million on foreign education between December 2021 and February 2022, figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The figures are contained in the CBN data on the amount spent on educational service under the sectoral utilisation for transactions valid for foreign exchange for …
Read More »We’ve frozen accounts of 50 firms operating loan apps – FG
Logos of online banks Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice-Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), says the agency has frozen accounts of over 50 firms operating loan apps in the country. Irukera who made the disclosure in an interview with Punch, noted that the action …
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