Baba Ijesha (in white hooded jacket) being pulled by a warder in Ikeja on Thursday Two Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 17 other lawyers, on Thursday, appeared at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja to argue the child molestation case involving embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha. Dada Awosika, SAN; and Babatunde Ogala, SAN, announced their ... Read More »

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old Chidinma for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said Chidinma is an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, adding that she had confessed to committing the crime. Chidinma was paraded at the police command ... Read More »

Sterling Bank Plc. in partnership with StearsData, has released an in-depth report for the agriculture sector in Nigeria. The report titled Agriculture Industry Report 2021 provides the most up-to-date view of the challenges and opportunities in Nigeria’s agriculture sector in a COVID-19 era. The four-part report critically examines the country’s agriculture value chain state, state of affairs post-COVID-19, the climate ... Read More »

At the end of the trading session today, the NGX Banking Index posted a profit of +0.18%, opposing the significant loss posted at the last trading session of (-3.12%), putting the index point at 350.36. The market saw 2 gains, 5 stalemates, and 3 losses. Wema Bank posted a profit of +5.45%, posting a price at N0.58 from its previous ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who would chair the team. The statement was ... Read More »

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has convicted former member of House of Representatives from Kano State, Farouk Lawan for receiving $500,000 bribe from a businessman, Femi Otedola. Justice Angella Otaluka convicted Lawan on the three-count charge on which he was tried by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). The ... Read More »

Johnson onifade Abeokuta    A leading member of the ruling party in Abeokuta south local government area of Ogun state Hon.Nurudeen Olaleye has de lared that Abeokuta south local government would go into record as the first council area from the Gateway state to launch the laudable political innitiative for the sitting Excecutive ogun state Numero Uno Prince Dapo Abiodun ... Read More »

As the probe of the whereabouts of $43, 449, 947, 000 seized from Osborne Towers in Ikoyi deepens, there were indications on Sunday that the cash was deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).   It was also learnt that the cash might have been transferred to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) account of the Federal Government. But it was ... Read More »

Photo 1 – (L-R) Korede Demola-Adeniyi, Head , Consumer Banking, Ecobank Nigeria; Linda Ikeji, Blogger and Initiator, Selfmade Woman Conference; Carol Oyedeji, Executive Director, Commercial Banking, Ecobank Nigeria; and Founder, House of Tara, Tara Fela-Durotoye at the Linda Ikeji’s Self-made Woman Conference in Lagos sponsored by Ecobank Nigeria Photo 2 – (L-R) Titi Olarinde, Head of Branch network;  Ibukun Oyedeji, Chief Financial Officer ... Read More »

Managing Director/CEO, Fidelity Bank PLC. Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe was in Abuja on Thursday June 17, 2021 when Air Peace Airline took delivery of the first of 13 brand new E195-E2 directly from Embraer facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The new aircraft​ with registration number 5N-BYF, named Helen Ekwusi Onyema, touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja ... Read More »