Ecobank Wins CBN/NIBSS Award for Data Integrity
Ecobank Nigeria over the weekend carted away the “Electronic Data Rendition Compliance and Integrity” Award at the 2019 edition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Electronic Payment Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency Awards. The CBN EPIS Efficiency Awards is organized to celebrate financial institutions, merchants and other stakeholders at the forefront of driving electronic payment in Nigeria. […]
Group Lobbies Tinubu to Support Hon. Odebunmi for Speaker
Ahead of the inauguration of the Ninth National Assembly, Southwest Youth Ambassador has called on the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and national leadership of the party to consider Segun Odebunmi for House of Representatives’ speaker. According to the press release made available to the press signed by the […]
Lagos Top Chief, Fatai Olumegbon Dies at 59
Prominent Lagos White Cap Chief, Fatai Abiodun Olumegbon is dead. A lawyer by training, Olumegbon was the head of Idejo Chieftaincy class, one of the most prominent Lagos White Cap chiefs and King Maker He reportedly died on Sunday evening after a brief illness. He was aged 59. An impeccable source disclosed that Olumegbon had […]
BREAKING: Appeal Court Dismisses APC Gov Primaries, Assembly Elections in Zamfara
The electoral fortune of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, suffered a setback today as the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto State, led by Justice Tom Yakubu, has set aside the judgement of a Zamfara High Court on the All Progressives Congress primary election that produced the party’s candidates for the governorship, National and […]
Weaponising Religion in Yoruba Politics, By Simon Kolawole
In case you missed it, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an advocacy group, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Muslim ministers from five south-west states when he constitutes his cabinet for his second term. Why? The group says because five of the south-west governors would be Christians, that is the way to go — […]
My Victory Humbles Me, Says Lalong
Gov Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who retained his office after Saturday’s supplementary polls, is seeking the support of Plateau people to deliver the dividends of democracy to them. The governor was declared the winner of the polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday in Jos, said the support […]
Trump Announces 100 Per Cent Defeat of ISIS
The United States President, Mr Donald Trump on Saturday announced the total defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria territories. Trump, in a statement issued by the White House Office of the Press Secretary, said ISIS had been defeated 100 per cent in its former controlled […]
London Locked Down as One Million People March Against Brexit
In one of the biggest demonstrations in British history, a crowd estimated at over one million people yesterday marched peacefully through central Londonto demand that MPs grant them a fresh referendum on Brexit. The Put it to the People march, which included protesters from all corners of the United Kingdom and many EU nationals living here, […]
Electoral Commissioner Shot in Benue
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Benue, Nentawe Yilwatda, has confirmed the attack on the commission’s convoy on Gboko-Makurdi road by unknown gunmen on Saturday night. Mr Yilwatda told journalists in the early hours of Sunday at the INEC headquarters Makurdi, that the Returning Officer for the Governorship supplementary polls in Gboko, Comfort Tuleun, […]
Simon Lalong Wins Plateau Guber Election
The incumbent governor of Plateau State, and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Barrister Simon Bako Lalong, has retained his seat. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Lalong winner of the Plateau State governorship election in the wee hours of Sunday, March 24, 2019. He scored 595,582 votes to defeat his closest opponent, […]
