The Managing Director/CEO of Guaranty Trust Bank plc, Segun Agbaje has just been announced the 2013 Banker of the Year – Africa by the World Finance Banking Awards. The World Finance Banker of the Year – Africa Award is conferred on outstanding bankers who have achieved the most with regards to innovation, profitability and sustainability of their organization. The award ... Read More »
House of Representatives member Opeyemi Bamidele has said he will contest next year’s governorship election in Ekiti State. He said the decision was in response to “a popular call to service”. In his letter of intent to Governor Kayode Fayemi, the former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy said he would inaugurate his independent campaign group, Ekiti Bibire Coalition, ... Read More »
A CLEARER picture of what the feuding camps of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, discussed at their Sunday’s make-or-mar meeting in Abuja emerged yesterday. To resolve the raging inferno, both camps, Vanguard gathered, identified at least eight thorny issues that must be amicably resolved. Some of the issues were ironed out through a joint resolution, a few were partially ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two young men who claimed to be undergraduates of the University of Jos, Isaiah Friday and Azzaior Samuel, for an alleged N2.05bn fraud. Two bureau de change operators, Salihu Mahmoud and Dan Ibrahim, were also arrested in connection with the alleged crime. The suspects were also accused of being members of a ... Read More »
There are indications that the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has in line with Section 68(1)-(g) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) recommended the dismissal of the senator representing Ondo North senatorial district, Senator Ajayi Borofice, from the Senate, following his defection from the Labour Party (LP) to the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Borofice had ... Read More »
First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan has denied reports that she involve in the sale of the Enugu Disco an electricity distribution company. The statement signed by Ayo O. Adesugba (Mrs.) Director of Information, Office of the First Lady said that the repot was devoid of facts. The statement read thus Our attention has been drawn to an online article published ... Read More »
A Nigerian suspected to be mentally deranged, Bethel Chima, has been shot in the legs after running amok with a cutlass inside a police station in Port-Bouet Abidjan. Chima, who is in his 30s is said to have been living in Abidjan for the past eight years. Some Nigerians residing in Port-Bouet said that Chima started behaving abnormally about three ... Read More »
This is in response to the interview the former minister granted Saturday Sun dated 14th September where he called the CAN president a bigot and a pretender. El-Rufai said: “The CAN president is not a religious leader. He is a religious pretender. From the statements he has made, he is a bigot. He is an ethnic irredentist and no one ... Read More »
Government spent N4.7 billion to import umbrella, footwear and headgear in the second quarter of 2013. The amount spent on the importation of those materials notwithstanding, the country recorded a favourable balance of trade, with export volume exceeding import volume, as the total value of external merchandise trade amounted to N5,341.1 billion in the second quarter 2013, an increase of ... Read More »
President Goodluck Jonathan and the aggrieved governors in the New Peoples Democratic Party have agreed to sheath their swords as they commence immediate action towards the resolution of the crisis in the party. The decision was reached at a meeting they held on Sunday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Sunday night. This was disclosed in a communique issued ... Read More »
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