Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the Global Finance Magazine’s Best Banks Awards 2022, retaining the award for a third consecutive year. The Bank was among other banks from 36 countries in Africa recognised as the prestigious Global Finance announced its 29th Annual Best Bank Awards Winners.The editors of…
Grooming Centre, microfinance NGO, launches photobook on 30 inspiring Nigerian womenApr 22, 2022 – EJIGBO, Lagos (Grooming Centre) – A 132-page photobook, Stories of Impact: Real Women, Real Lives, Real Growth, will be formally launched on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at the Grooming Centre Multipurpose Hall, Ejigbo in Lagos.The photobook highlights and celebrates the resilience,…
Eucharia Agbasimalo is the wife of Obiora Agbasimalo, the missing governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the last governorship election in Anambra State. She speaks to IKENNA OBIANERI about the kidnap of the young politician since September, 2021 Please introduce yourself. My name is Eucharia Agbasimalo. I am an accountant working with a multilevel marketing company….
Former President Goodluck Jonathan will only be joining the All Progressives Congress presidential race on the condition that he is endorsed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Anything short of this would not be acceptable to Jonathan who served as deputy governor, governor, Vice-President and President on the platform of the…
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has passed on. He was 83 years old. The top Yoruba monarch died in the late hours of Friday, according to palace officials. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, The PUNCH was told. The late Alaafin’s first son, Prince ‘Tunde, and other children had…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara from the National Assembly and declared his seat vacant.Mr Dogara, who represents Bogoro/Dass Federal constituency of Bauchi State, was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2015 and 2019.The judge, D.U. Okorowo, on Friday, ruled that Mr Dogara’s defection…
The organiser of the annual Nigeria ICT Impact CEO Forum and ADA have announced the speakers and date of the 2022 edition of the events. The organiser informed that the events will attract the best industry CEOs and will hold concurrently with the annual Africa Digital Awards (ADA). Due to the covid-19 health challenge, the organiser noted,…
The Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has heavily criticised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over insecurity, corruption and division in Nigeria.Kukah made his complaints known in his Easter Message on Sunday titled, ‘To mend a broken nation: The Easter metaphor’.According to the bishop, every aspect of life in Nigeria…
Businessman and chairman of Oyo-Si-Maa-Dun Foundation, Mr. Abisoye Fagade, has opined that the surest way through which Nigeria could emerge from the current challenges of instability was for the citizens to renew their individual commitment to peace and tolerance among themselves. This admonition was contained in a special Easter message contained in a statement issued…
A 40-year-old man, Nuwel Ajagu, has allegedly defiled the teenage daughter of his brother in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.It was learnt that Ajagu lured the 13-year-old girl from her home at Bayeku Last Bus Stop to his apartment on Etubure Street also in Bayeku.He was said to have rebuffed the teenager’s appeals to him…
