Determined to create the largest bank in Africa, Access Bank Plc on Wednesday said it had finalised plans to issue 250 million dollars Tier 11 capital in January 2019. Herbert Wigwe, the bank’s the Chief Executive Officer, said this at a news conference by Access Bank Plc and Diamond Bank Plc on details of the […]
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Real Madrid will meet Al Ain in the Club World Cup final on 22 December, after thrashing Asian qualifiers Kashima Antlers 3-1 at the Zayed Sport City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. Madrid qualified with a hat trick by Gareth Bale, who scored the first goal just before the break. On resumption, […]
Continue ReadingAbdullahi Ibrahim, the Borno Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), said one of the two female Boko Haram bombers nabbed by the command is a wife of Mamman Nur, a factional leader of the terrorist group. The teenager who was identified as Fatima Kabir was arrested recently, along with another woman, Amina […]
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The Federal Government has declared Monday, December 25, Tuesday, 26, 2017 and Monday, January 1, 2018, as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and the New Year. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulralman Dambazau (retd.), made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He urged […]
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Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that normalcy has been restored in Tipper Garage Bus Stop, Abule Egba, after a fire incident that burnt many vehicles, houses and shops. LASEMA officials said that the fire, which started around 3.00 am, was triggered when an ignitable object came in contact with petrol spillage in […]
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Operatives of Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday uncovered a fake wine factory at an uncompleted building at Aboru area of Oke-Odo, Alagbado, Lagos. Edgal Imohimi, the Commissioner of Police Lagos led the team to the factory owned by one Uju Daniel Ughanze, 47, who is unlicensed to run such business. Imohimi told newsmen that […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the murder of Alex Badeh, a retired Chief of Defence Staff by unknown assailants. Badeh, who retired as an Air Chief Marshall from the Nigerian Air Force, was killed along the Abuja-Keffi expressway while returning from his farm on Tuesday. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser to the […]
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There was chaos on Tuesday at the Five Star bus stop on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos State, as a yet-to-be-identified bus driver was lynched by a mob. According to PUNCH Metro the driver and his conductor had been beaten to a pulp and set ablaze before policemen from the Answani Division responded to a distress […]
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Alex Badeh, former chief of defence staff, has been shot to death Ibikunle Daramola, spokesman of the Nigerian air force, announced this via his Twitter handle on Tuesday. He said Badeh died from gunshot wounds sustained in an attack while returning from his farm. He said the sad incident happened along Abuja-Keffi road. Daramola wrote: […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the national assembly of inflating the debt of the federal government to states. The national assembly had approved the refund of N488.7 billion to state governments for projects they executed on behalf of the federal government. But in a letter read on the floor of the upper legislative chamber by […]
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