On Friday April 8, during the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was held at the Eko Atlantic Hotel, Lagos, the shareholders of UBA applauded the UBA for its strong financial performance in 2015 despite the difficult operating environment globally. They also approved the board’s recommendation to pay a final dividend of 40 kobo per…
We are suffering, no fuel, no power, no money,” hundreds of Kano residents chanted on Saturday as they welcomed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on a state visit. The residents in Sabon Gari town were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions lamenting the current economic situation in one of Nigeria’s largest city. Mr. Osinbajo, who visited…
There is a saying in the land of my fathers that the party is good and enjoyable while it lasts, but the hangover can be a real headache. The honeymoon for the party of change has since run out, we are now in the season of hangover and it is proving to be a debilitating…
Your Excellency, Assalam Alaikum. It has been over six months since you graciously invited me to your office in Abuja. I must note once again that I was truly honoured and humbled by our one-on-one meeting. We spoke and interacted like two old buddies. What was more, I was all alone with you without a…
Just as Nigeria’s president Mohammadu Buhari kept and maintains all of the 11 jets in the presidential fleet, spending way over N5bbn so far on his frequent foreign trips aside the cost of maintaining other planes in the fleet, it has been revealed that other officers in the government of ‘Change’ do same. According to…
Once upon a time, Orile Imo along Abeokuta to Sagamu road in Ogun State was a somewhat somnolent settlement. The few houses were that of mud (mostly dilapidated) with thatched roofs. Apart from the farmers and petty traders, illustrious indigenes of this community rarely pass the night when they visit, as there was no electricity…
MUST STOP THE TRIAL BECAUSE IT IS POLITICAL PERSECUTION’ The on-going trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki is more of political than judicial and it must be stopped in the best interest of the ruling party, the APC to avoid the polity been unnecessarily over-heated. Some APC elders who spoke under the umbrella…
PLEDGE TO MOVE NIGERIA FORWARD …As Osoba Rejoins APC …Tinubu, Aregbesola, Ajimobi, Ambode, Others Meet In Lagos The Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South West, Nigeria met in Lagos on Sunday where they restated their commitment to work together to move the country and particularly the region forward. Osun State Governor, Ogbeni…
SEATED in his father’s office in Lagos, Baana Bulama, an indigene of Bama in Borno State, hissed out loud when the news was flashed on television that 16 women were abducted in Adamawa by suspected Boko Haram members. “I was once obsessed like they are now. Someone needs to educate them,” he said in apparent…
This commentary is inspired by Olusegun Adeniyi’s “Of wailers, counterwailers and Buharideens”(ThisDay, March 31). In that piece, the ace journalist and public affairs commentator successfully defines the tri-polarities governing public responses to the Muhammadu Buhari administration. The take-away is that the biggest challenge that Nigeria faces at the moment is political partisanship, which has divided…
