One of the old generation banks in Nigeria, Wema Bank, is presently in a mess and the reason is not far-fetched. Workers of the bank at Iponri, Lagos branch are still finding it difficult to understand how the sum of N6.5 million belonging to the Lagos State government suddenly developed wings and flew away from…
Deposed Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi is due in court on charges of murder, days after he insisted he was the legitimate president at a separate hearing related to a prison break. According to state media, Morsi arrived at the police academy in Cairo on Saturday to face charges of inciting the killing of protesters near…
The ‘political porting’ happening in Nigeria has still not stopped as 16 local council chairmen in Kwara State announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday. They were also followed to their new party by their 194 Councillors. The decampees, under the Association of Local Governments…
Things are definitely not going well with popular actor, Emeka Ike and his wife, going by the latest information about them. In 2008, the couple established as secondary school in Magodo, Lagos called St Nicolas College. The institution has recently been marred with crisis over unpaid teachers’ salaries and withdrawal of some students from the…
**5-Month-Old Toddler Shot Dead During Breastfeeding Some unknown gunmen in Kaduna, on Friday, stormed the home of a 47-year-old security guard in the state and cleared all his family members, including him. The invaders, numbering about 20, unleashed terror on one Sunday Abin, who works with Robber Research Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture,…
In the build up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the National Association of Mbaise Students, NAMS, has endorsed the Chairman, Governing Board, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority, Chris Asoluka, as the preferred candidate for Imo East Owerri Senatorial zone. The group, in a press release jointly signed by the National President, Stanley…
Kano-based Abdulkadir Mohammed has been convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment for attempting to defraud a retired army General, Garba Ali, of the sum of N14 million in land deal. Mohammed was sentenced by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano, Wednesday, January 29, 2014. He was sentenced with an option of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 arraigned Aminu Ibrahim Gaya, a former Director with the Federal Capital Territory Administration before Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja on a 15 count charge which borders on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretence and forgery. The accused pleaded…
As part of his efforts to mend the leakages in the ‘torn umbrella’ of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, the newly appointed National Chairman of the ruling party, Adamu Mu’azu, held a closed-door meeting with former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, in Minna, Niger State. The meeting was held on Friday afternoon at the gap-toothed…
The marriage of Grace Amah is presently threatened and if nothing is urgently done by the parties involved or by their close allies, the union may eventually hit the rock. Information flying around indicates that the famous gospel singer is no more finding her marriage rosy. Grace is married to a sacked pastor of the…