At the 51st Annual meeting of the board of governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), African philanthropist Tony Elumelu, urged the private sector to tackle unemployment among African youths on the continent. Mr. Elumelu, the Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA) and pan-African investment company Heirs Holdings said during a panel session at…
Pan African banking group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has partnered Konga, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce company and Innovectives Nigeria Limited to create a seamless delivery and payment system by integrating mobile point of sale solution into Konga’s delivery system. Mobile POS (mPOS) which is powered by UBA PLC and MasterCard will make it easier…
We are disturbed by the latest falsehood published in The Nation newspaper of Monday, 16 May, 2016, and the theatre of the absurd currently playing out in the Federal Information and Culture Ministry, following the recent leak of a letter requesting a loan of N13.2 million from the National Broadcasting Commission to facilitate Alhaji Lai…
It appears Mohammed Babangida’s in-laws have criminal activities flowing in their blood stream and the tendencies to commit crimes reside with them. The two fathers in-law of the son of former president Ibrahim Babangida ,Mohammed are in one way or the other connected with different criminal activities and are said to be ruthless when it…
As investigations into the death of Mrs. Ronke Shonde, who was allegedly murdered by the husband Lekan, deepens, the much awaited autopsy report, which has been released, might have shed further light into the circumstances that led to her death. The autopsy report which was taken to the State Criminal Investigation and Investigate Department (SCIID),…
The joke is on Kola Aluko right now; having scorned the subtle nudge of reason in prosperous clime, Kola could not foresee his doom and eventual collapse of his oil business. It is sadder that Jide Omokore, his partner and benefactor, for whom he fronts, cannot prevent the once profitable cash-cow from untimely death in…
The dark cloud hovering over the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, has refused to clear as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday insisted that he was implicated in a N10 million bribery allegations. Although the CCT had earlier displayed a letter of clearance by the anti-graft agency, during a…
Gloria Esiohe, a former colleague of late Mrs. Ronke Shonde, who was allegedly beaten to death by her husband Lekan, last week, in their Egbeda residence, yesterday, revealed that jealousy and fear of losing his wife could have led him to kill his wife. But the suspect, Lekan Shonde, insisted that he did not kill…
Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has attributed his recent arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to his criticisms of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. In a statement issued by his law firm, Wednesday, Mr. Adegboruwa denied claims by the anti-graft commission that he was involved in a N61 million fraud. Mr….
