Pan-African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc got double honours over the weekend as it emerged the Bank of the year 2019; while its Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, also emerged CEO of the year at the Business Hallmark Newspaper Awards, held at the Civic Centre in Lagos on Sunday. Uzoka…
Ministers of agriculture from 30 African countries, including Nigeria recently met to discuss actionable solutions to the threat posed by climate change to agriculture in Africa. The meeting was the 2nd annual ministerial conference of the Adapting African Agriculture (AAA) Initiative, themed “Food Security Facing Climate Change”. The 2-day conference which was held at the…
In a trilling, but energy-sapping mental duel last weekend, representatives of Lagos and Ogun States shrugged off all challenges to emerge victorious in the finals of season 5 of the Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics Television Quiz Show sponsored by Cowbell Milk, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited. In an electrifying final battle of the…
Top global designers and brands will storm Lagos for the “Style by Zenith 2.0” Fair, the second edition of Zenith Bank’s highly anticipated Lifestyle Fair, which holds from Friday, November 29 to Sunday, December 1, 2019 at the Eko Energy City, Eko Atlantic, Victoria Island, Lagos. Some of the top designers billed to feature at…
Nigeria’s e-commerce giant, Jumia, has disclosed that its 2019 Black Friday campaign will attract a surge of new shoppers during the campaign period scheduled for November 8th through 29th. The company’s Head of Growth, Ayobami Martins who stated this in a press statement to journalists in Lagos, said over 12,000 SMEs in the country will…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has lamented the rate at which beneficiaries of the large-heartedness of the Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State governor, Dr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, are plotting against their benefactor. Eze, spokesman of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), in…
Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and the global airline, British Airways have announced a collaboration to reward loyal customers who are cardholders of the Bank. The promo which will last for six months from November 2019, will witness UBA customers getting significant discounts when they purchase their British Airways tickets…
In a keen consideration of the huge leaps in the world’s population, particularly on the African continent, and the decreasing yields in agriculture due to the impact of climate change, African ministers of agriculture and a number of international institutions endorsed an urgent and critical ‘Declaration’ to “tackle head-on the issue of adapting our agriculture…
The Deputy Commissioner in-charge of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Yaba, DCP Yetunde Longe, has disclosed that more internet fraudsters and possibly their mothers will be sent to prison if found guilty after prosecution. She disclosed this today on a morning show programme on Lagos Television (LTV) while reacting to the news making…
Erstwhile media aide to Atiku Abubakar, the PDP Presidential candidate and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has hailed the affirmation of the electoral victory of President Mohammadu Buhari by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, the apex…