The quarter finals of the 2018 GTBank Masters Cup is set to hold on May 8-9, 2018 at the Agege Stadium, Lagos with 16 male and female teams competing for a semi-final spot in the prestigious tournament. Organized by leading African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, the GTBank Masters Cup is an annual football…
Afolabi Williams, team leader, Olubusiyi Famobiwo, Menashi Mordi and Osagumwenro Naaman Ugbo, members of Team Neon from Whitesands School, Lagos, have emerged as the 2018 Power Pitch Winner of the Smoke-Free World category of the Conrad Foundation Spirit of Innovation challenge summit held at the Kennedy Space Centre, Visitor Complex, Florida, USA. The four junior…
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in London, United Kingdom. The Presidency, however, attributed his presence in the British capital to what it called “technical stopover.” The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in an interview with our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday (today). Buhari, who travelled…
A Lokoja Magistrate Court has ordered that embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district be remanded in police custody for 38 days pending commencement of hearing in the case brought by the police against him and three others. The charges the police brought against Senator Melaye bothered on criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession…
Respite is yet to come the way of Nigerian carrier, Med-View Airline as the embattled airline continues to languish in the claws of debt. The airline has suspended international operations reduced regional routes on its flight schedule. The airline, which once had about six aircrafts in its fleet, has suspended flight operations to Gatwick, London,…
The integrity and competence of Chief John Odigie Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has once again come under public scrutiny as the party is rocked by N1b fraud. Party funds were reportedly moved to private accounts. It has been discovered that savings of over N1b handed over in 2014 by the…
Following the $25bn contract row that ravaged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the corporation will now go into the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and all its multiple accounts closed. A government source reportedly said “The President is actually not blind to the rot in NNPC, and he is addressing the challenges gradually. He is…
President Muhammadu Buhari, who was not in good terms with the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently made a u-turn to make peace with the former Lagos State governor, but a source close to Mr President said the move is solely because of his second term ambition. Tinubu was extremely instrumental…
says even morons won’t describe President’s mediocre performance as superlative Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday declared that even morons would not describe the mediocre performance of President Buhari as superlative. He made the declaration even as he distanced himself from a purported report trending on the social media that he had made a…
Pan- African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc, last thursday, ended its annual Group Chairman’s Forum, a platform for group integration, re-strategising and knowledge sharing with the overall aim of puting the bank on firm standing to actualize its goals and targets for the financial year. The theme of this year’s forum was…
