Lekki is one of the highbrow areas in Lagos. Many people perceive it as a place where wealthy Nigerians as well as foreigners, reside. This automatically makes it an expensive city. But, in variance to this perception, there are things you can do at this naturally formed peninsula that doesn’t require you to break the…
The leadership of Celestial Church of Christ, CCC, Worldwide has condemned one of its pastors, Francis Taiwo, who was accused of chaining his nine-year-old son in Ota, Ogun State for about a month. The boy was rescued by security operatives in Ogun State last Friday. The CCC, under the leadership of His Eminence, Pastor Mobiyina …
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned hearing in an N8 billion copyright infringement suit involving ROLLING INNOVATIONS & INVESTMENT LIMITED & ANOR V ECOBANK NIGERIA, MR RICHARD ADIELE AND MR. ADEKAYO BALOGUN till September 21. The claimants filed the suit against the Bank and two of its ex-staff claiming that the Bank…
A group known as Vanguard for Justice, Equity and Strategy has commended the INEC for carrying forward the date of the planned Rivers re-run election as a result of incessant killings of people in the state. Speaking in a seminar on Youth violence in Port Harcourt over the weekend, the vice President of the group,…
Senator Godswill Akpabio at the moment may not be the happiest man in the world and the reason is not far-fetched. Or how will you expect the former governor of Akwa-Ibom State to be happy when his darling wife, Ekaette Uloma, who has solidly stood behind him for many years, is battling with an ailment…
African Export Import Bank, Afreximbank, has provided a $150 million funding support for Heritage Bank Limited. In a statement announcing this development yesterday, Divisional Head, Corporate Communications, Olusola Longe-Okenimkpe said, “HBCL Investment Services Limited (HISL) a major shareholder of Heritage Bank Limited has executed the term sheet for the issuance of guarantee for its $150…
The first year remembrance of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, the 50th Ooni of Ife, has been fixed to hold next week. The two-day event will kick off on Thursday, July 28, 2016, with a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ayegbaju, Ife, Osun State. This will then be followed by…
The Ogun State government has offered to adopt the nine-year-old boy chained by his father, Francis Taiwo. The victim, Korede Taiwo, was handed over to the state government by the Ogun State Police Command in Abeokuta. Korede was rescued last week by a combined team of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Security and…
Former US First Lady, Hilary Clinton, has officially been announced as flag-bearer of the Democratic Party for the November 2016 presidential election. At the Democratic Party Convention held in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Democrats voted the former US Secretary of State as the first woman nominated for president by a major political party. The former…
There was tension in the air on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, when two ministerial nominees failed to recite the National anthem and pledge properly. The nominees, Ibrahim Isa from Niger State and Vivian Nwunaku Okeke from Anambra State mixed up the National Anthem and pledge when the chairman of the senate committee on Foreign Affairs,…