2022 was a remarkable year for Union Bank of Nigeria (“Union Bank”). The leading financial institution celebrated its 105th year of serving Nigerians with the announcement of the completion of a landmark transaction that saw the integration of the Bank with Titan Trust bank to form a stronger union. This announcement kicked off several noteworthy events and major milestones and ... Read More »

Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha popularly known by his stage name Basketmouth has ended his marriage to his wife, Elsie Uzoma Okpocha. The 44 -year -old comedian on Thursday, announced the breakup with Elsie in a statement posted on his Instagram page. He said, “As much as it pains me to bring my personnel life to the public space, this is ... Read More »

Ahead of the Yuletide holidays, Ecobank Nigeria has reassured that customers will be able to shop seamlessly and carry out all their transactions via the Ecobank Digital platforms, which include the Ecobank Mobile app, USSD *326#, Ecobank Online, Ecobank OmniPlus, Ecobank Omnilite, EcobankPay, Ecobank RapidTransfer, ATMs, and PoS terminals. Also available to customers is an extensive distribution network of over ... Read More »

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun state on Wednesday kicked as the Governor, Ademola Adeleke approved the distribution of forty bags of rice to the 332 wards across the state. Adeleke in a statement by his spokesperson, Olwale Rasheed, disclosed that Governor Adeleke approves the composition of a committee for a non-partisan distribution of rice just as the State ... Read More »

Aderemi Faleye, wife of Nigerian doctor, Femi Olaleye’s wife who accused her husband of raping her niece, has told the court how he has allegedly been sexually abusing her niece and how she (her niece) was introduced to porn. Aderemi, who delivered a speech before the Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos State on Monday said, “Femi ... Read More »

Dr Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was on Monday found guilty of receiving over N200m cash from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). He was therefore sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja with an option of N500, 000 fine on each ... Read More »

Ismail Omipidan, Media Aide to former Osun State governor, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola, yesterday, described as reckless and unguarded the statement on Osun loans’ liquidation credited to Mr. Sola Fasure, media adviser to Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Fasure had, last week, disclosed that his principal, Ogbeni Aregbesola, had liquidated major loans he obtained as governor, urging Oyetola to face ... Read More »

An Oyo State Family Court sitting in Ibadan has remanded a 35-year-old Olufunke Sakiru at Abolongo Correctional Centre, Oyo town, for allegedly strangulating her son to death. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Patricia Adetuyibi, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered her remand at Abolongo Correctional Centre pending the outcome of the legal advice from the state Directorate ... Read More »

Nigerian security agencies have intercepted a drone which they said was imported into the country by the Indigenous People of Biafra from an Asian country for surveillance and combat purposes. Newsthumb learnt that the drone, which was already delivered and put into use, was modelled and imported as an agricultural instrument to be put into urgent use by farmers in ... Read More »

Justice Kayode Agunloye of the Federal High Court, Lugbe, on Friday, summoned the Heads of the Old and New Keffi Correctional Centres, Simon Kaigama and Alao Moses to account for the whereabouts of a suspect, Suleiman Mohammed, who was allegedly involved in the murder and robbery of Mr. Gabriel Adukwu. Vanguard learned that the suspect was charged before the court ... Read More »