A health and wellness advocate, Dr. Bisi Abiola has urged Nigerians to embrace consumption of 100% fruit juice in order to reduce dehydration in this harmattan season. Abiola, during the December edition of Chivita -sponsored health and wellness dialogue, also warned against indulging in excess sugar consumption during the yuletide. She advised individuals to take…
Following a strategic review leading to a competitive process, the board of Diamond Bank Plc has announced picking Access Bank Plc as the preferred bidder with respect to a potential merger of the two banks aimed to create Nigeria and Africa’s largest retail bank by customers. In a statement issued by the Diamond Bank, the…
The management of Nigerian Breweries, makers of Amstel Malta, has expressed its intention to contest the ruling of an Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, directing the company to apologise to one of its customers. The court had ruled on a matter brought before it by one Professor Ernest Izevbigie, who claimed the…
Immediate-past governor of Delta State and All Progressives Congress 2019 Delta South senatorial candidate, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has said that one of the ways to win election was by dedicating the electioneering process to God, especially through praises. Dr. Uduaghan made this assertion on Sunday at an inter-denominational service organized to dedicate the APC…
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a sub-committee of the Kogi East Elders’ council political committee has adopted the candidate of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), Dr. Victor Adoji as the preferred choice for the Kogi East Senatorial seat. In report signed by Pro. Sunday Okpanachi (Chairman) and Prof. S. O. Ejima (Secretary) and nine others,…
Over the past few weeks, Diamond bank has been enmeshed in various dramas and just when it seemed that the bank had risen from the storms and was on an upward trajectory, a new twist emerged when Mr. Bickersteth, one of the ex- directors that resigned from the bank made some allegations against the management…
Elevates the Retiring CEO Parminder Vir to the Advisory Board The Board of Trustees of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading philanthropic organisation empowering African entrepreneurs, announced the appointment of Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu as Chief Executive Officer at the end of its Board Meeting on December 12. This appointment takes effect from April 1, 2019. Ifeyinwa…
The yearnings of the people of Lagos for freedom was reaffirmed last weekend when the venue of “Experience 13” celebration organised by the House on the Rock Metropolitan Church in Lagos erupted in frenzy when Jimi Agbaje, the People Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2019 gubernatorial election in Lagos State was introduced to the…
Senior Pastor at Champions Royal Assembly, Prophet Joshua Iginla, has warned the country to pray against military interruption of the nation’s democracy as citizens prepare for the 2019 elections. The cleric gave this prophetic warning at a church function, where he further said Nigerians should pray and fast on Thursday and Friday for the forthcoming…
One of Nigeria’s financial institutions, STERLING BANK PLC, is in the news again for the wrong reasons. This time, a customer of the Abubakar Suleiman-led Sterling Bank has again lost over N2.4 million to an official of the bank. The staff, one Ebenezer Alonge, a cashier with Sterling Bank’s Ado-Ekiti branch, alongside his wife, Isakunle…