Pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, yesterday, released its 9 months unaudited financial results for 2015 showing a strong 44% rise in profit after tax to N48.6 billion and a 17% rise in gross earnings to N247.2 billion. The third quarter results also show Net Operating Income (NOI) recorded a strong…
Wife of late broadcaster, Charles Bruce Chukuma, fondly called Chaz B, Chinyere Roselin, has narrated how her husband died at St Nicolas Hospital in Lagos. The late ‘Sharing Life Issues’ presenter breathed his last in November 2014 and his wife accused the hospital of killing her husband through “total negligence.” Here is her side of…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Monday sworn-in Commissioners and Special Advisers at a well-attended event held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa, the state’s seat of power. The newly appointed cabinet members were full of excitement as they were being given portfolios by the governor in the presence of dignitaries including Brig Mobolaji…
Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has reiterated his administration’s commitment to diversify the economy of the state and create wealth for its people. Amosun made this known while receiving Atsuko Toda, Country Programme Manager of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Value Chain Programme in his office on Friday at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta. According…
The Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has charged troops fighting Boko Haram in north east Nigeria to buckle up because the country’s sovereignty is presently “threatened.” Buratai made this known in his message to troops, which was posted on the social media platforms of the Defence Headquarters on Friday. The Army Chief…
A court martial has found Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti guilty of offences committed during a war against Boko Haram insurgents in the north east of Nigeria. The army officer, who is the son of late human rights activist and former Minister of Health, Beko Ransome Kuti, was sentenced to six months in prison for failing…
Screening of the remaining 17 ministerial nominees, including former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, will no longer hold on Thursday, October 15, 2015 (today) as earlier thought. The exercise is now scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, according to information revealed on Thursday by the upper legislative arm of the National…
Igbo traders in Akure, the Ondo State capital, are at loggerheads with indigenes and monarch of the town over an alleged plan by the Deji of Akure to dethrone their Eze Ndigbo, Sir Gregory Iloehike. Trouble started when Iloehike was allegedly assaulted at the palace of Deji during the visit of the former to the…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has upheld the election of the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi. At the ruling on Wednesday, the five-man panel of the court headed by Justice M Saulawa unanimously struck out the petition filed by the governorship candidate of Accord Party in Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja.…
Nigerians have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assign former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, to the ministry of works, following his confirmation as minister by the Senate on Wednesday. Fashola was among the 18 nominees confirmed as minister of the Government of the Federation by the red chambers of the National Assembly. Since his…