While some business oriented banks are declaring midyear profit others are swimming in tales of alleged mega fraud. Recent findings by theoctopusnews.com has revealed Diamond Bank is in big trouble, as it is about to be dragged to court for breach of contract. Digs by our reporter revealed that the bank earlier in the year…
The annual and prestigious Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards, NBMA, recently got a boost from Nigeria’s leading digital pay-channels provider, Startimes Nigeria Ltd, when the company supported the event with free decoders. The organisers of the awards ceremony, led by its executive producer, Kazeem Popoola, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, paid a courtesy visit to the…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has ordered the deputy governor of Taraba State, Garba Umar, to henceforth take instructions from the ailing governor of the state, Danbaba Suntai. This decision was reached on Tuesday afternoon after the committee headed by Senator Hope Uzodinma, met with the governor and his deputy in Jalingo. Uzodinma was mandated…
If the threat given to the Presidency by a faction of some ex-militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is anything to go by, then trouble looms in the region as there might be a resumption of the activities of the group in the region. This is because the group has handed a one-month…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has disowned the former governor of the state, who doubles as the factional PDP National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. In a communique released on Monday after the chapter held an emergency meeting to deliberate on the walk out of some party’s delegates on Saturday in…
One of the Lagos based softsell magazines, Classic International, will on Sunday, September 8, 2013, hold its awards ceremony tagged ‘Classic Africa Merit Awards, CAMA, in Lagos. The glamorous ceremony will hold at 10 Degrees Event Centre, Billingsway, Oregun, Ikeja. Some top Nigerian stars like Monalisa Chinda, Iyabo Ojo, Pawpaw, Emeka Ike, Ngozi Nwosu, Saka,…
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged operators of the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, buses in the state to show more sensitivity to the feelings of commuters. The governor recently made this plea during a meeting with the management and staff of the state’s Mass Transit Bus Systems at the LASTMA yard in Oshodi.…
Recently, Yoruba movie actor turned politician, Hon Rotimi Makinde, married his beau and it was well publicised. Days after, there are reports that he is allegedly broke having spent all his fortunes to stage a classy wedding ceremony. A report by a gossip website, Nigeriafilms.com, is presented below; There is a saying that ‘cut your…
Some suspected Fulani gunmen numbering about 20 stormed Adu village in Atakad Chiefdom, Kaura local government area of Kaduna State, on Monday, killing about seven persons and injuring some others. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday when residents of Adu were getting ready for the day’s work. The attackers reportedly entered the…
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has since its inception been introducing ideas and innovations that would make motorists in Nigeria get the best from the government and the agency as well. The menace of being arrested by officials of the Corps for having fake number plates has caused many sleepless nights for some motorists…