GMW: Polaris Bank, CBN deepen financial literacy among young Nigerians… donates books to libraries of 37 Secondary Schools nationwide

Polaris Bank has continued to deepen its financial advocacy role of educating and inculcating in young Nigerians the culture of savings, investment and financial awareness during the 2023 Global Money Week (GMW) event. The week-long activity, which kicked off last Monday, March 20, and ended on Sunday, March 26, 2023, had ‘Plan Your Money, Plant Your Future’, as its theme. …

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Court Remands Man Over Rape Of 56-year-old Stroke Patient

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, on Monday, ordered the remand of one Bello Jamiu in Agodi Correctional Centre for allegedly raping a 56-year-old stroke patient. The Chief Magistrate, E. A. Idowu, who did not take the defendant’s plea due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered the remand pending legal advice from the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution. …

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Boris Johnson Attends Anyiam-Osigwe Memorial Lecture In Lagos

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, on Monday, attended Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation’s 16th Annual Lecture Series with the theme, ‘Rehumanising Human Experience in Lagos.’ Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu revealed this on his Twitter page on Monday. He mentioned that the Deputy Governor of the state, Obafemi Hamzat, and other …

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Court Remands Agba Jalingo For Cybercrime

Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist on trial for treason, has been remanded in Kuje prison from Monday till Thursday. A judge in the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar remanded journalist Agba Jalingo to Kuje prison for cybercrime. According to Politics Nigeria, Justice Abubakar allegedly denied Jalingo’s lawyers the opportunity to move a motion for bail after …

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Lagos Assembly Says 2023 Election Free, Credible …Congratulates Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu, Obasa

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima for winning what lawmakers described as a free and credible 2023 presidential election. The House also congratulated Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat while calling Speaker Obasa a ‘record breaker’ for being re-elected a sixth time to represent Agege Constituency …

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Ebenezer Onyeagwu receives Doctorate Degree in Business Administration from UNN, Nsukka

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank Plc, Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, was on Saturday, March 25, 2023, conferred with a Doctorate Degree in Business Administration by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The award, which is in recognition of his immense achievements as Group Managing Director/CEO of Zenith Bank as well as his contributions to the growth of the …

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Probe Adebutu Now Over Electoral Fraud By Ibukun Odumefun

From Ladi Adebutu’s comical pantomime at INEC’s office in Abeokuta, a disconcerting truth manifests for the umpteenth time: that Nigerian politicians are mostly sore losers. Haunted by hubris, they approach every election with an impossible conviction to win, even when the run of play manifests convincingly to their defeat. The desperate and diabolical measures embarked upon by Labi Adebutu, the …

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