United Kingdom Metropolitan Police have formally charged two Nigerians with conspiracy to facilitate the travel of another person for organ harvesting. The suspects were arrested and charged over their plan to bring a child into the country to allegedly harvest the said child’s organs. The two arrested suspects were identified as Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, from ... Read More »

….Petrol subsidy could hit N6trn by end of year, IMF warns …PENGASSAN cites bridging cost, says high diesel price affecting trucking of petrol by tankers …Adds sole importation, inadequate funds, others can’t guarantee supply …As MOMAN canvasses full downstream deregulation, says inadequate supply responsible for scarcity Indications emerged yesterday that the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country may not abate ... Read More »

….as convicts agree to appear as NDLEA’s witnesses The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced two drug traffickers, Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwane, who were linked to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to six years imprisonment. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by trial Justice Emeka Nite, convicted Umeibe ... Read More »

ix from left. Nike Kolawole, Head, Agency Banking, Ecobank Nigeria; Korede Demola-Adeniyi, Head, Consumer Banking, Ecobank Nigeria; Balogun Akin Osuntokun, Public Affairs Analyst; His Imperial Majesty, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ooni of Ife; Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, former Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria; Princess Aderonke Ademiluyi, Managing Director, Adire Oodua Textile Hub and Clarion Chukwurah, Nollywood Legend at the Ecobank Adire Lagos Experience exhibition ... Read More »

L-r: Golfer, Junior Egbakumeh; Chairman of NOVA Merchant Bank, Mr. Phillips Oduoza; Chairman, NOVA Asset Management Co, Osemwengie Ede; and Enterprise Commercial Lead, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft, Akin Banuso, at a Special Golf Competition held at Ikoyi Golf Club in Lagos on Saturday Read More »

The Lagos State Police Commissioner’s Special Squad has detained five policemen attached to singer, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, for attempted murder after they shot two fun seekers— Irebami Lawrence and another identified simply as Tolu— at Club Cubana on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday. According to a preliminary report by the Bar Beach Police Division, trouble started when the ... Read More »

Without a doubt, digital payment is the next growth frontier for financial services. Amongst other extenuating factors, growing digitalisation, mobile penetration, and evolving consumer behaviour have accelerated the shift towards cashless thereby creating entirely new business models and solutions built around payments. Given the key role digitalisation plays in the financial lives of many people today, electronic payments are at ... Read More »

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries and the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, Distinguished Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru has congratulated the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence as the party’s presidential flag bearer for the 2023 elections. Senator Abiru in his congratulatory message said the party has made ... Read More »

Former Governorship candidate and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC in Rivers state, Prince Tonye Princewill has reacted to the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as presidential candidate of the party, saying like many others, his next step would be determined by his political leader and presidential aspirant, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. Princewill who had at various times in ... Read More »

he trial of Andrew Ominnikoron, the driver, of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) who allegedly raped and murdered a 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, was stalled due to the absence of his lawyer Abayomi Omotubora. On the last adjourned date on June 1, 2022, the trial also didn’t go on as the defendant was not produced in court, due to the ... Read More »