The erudite banker-turned politician, on Monday emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Kogi East Senatorial District for the 2023 general election. Adoji polled 117 to defeat Engr. Aminu Suleiman, Elder Ubolo Okpanachi and Isaac Alfa, a former Chief of Air Staff and senator, and who scored 54, 43 and 20 respectively. This is good news from Kogi ... Read More »

Weeks after Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris was suspended for allegedly embezzling N80billion and President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Anamekwe Nwabuoku as Acting AGF, news filtered out that Nwabuoku is under probe for corruption. Nwabuoku who was newly appointed to overseer of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), reportedly has a heavy corruption dossier and ... Read More »

Heirs Oil & Gas, Africa’s integrated energy company has reaffirmed its commitment to both national and global environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) best practices in view of its upcoming operational 1-year anniversary. An important aspect of this commitment is the elimination of routine flaring from HHOGs OML 17 by 2025, in compliance with the Nigerian Government’s routine Flare Reduction/Elimination goal ... Read More »

Nigeria’s telecommunication giant, MTN Nigeria is now worth N5 trillion making it more valuable than all banks, insurance companies, and the entire financial services companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange combined. This is according to market valuation data as of May 20th, 2022, tracked and compiled by Nairametrics from the Nigerian Exchange. As of Friday, MTN Nigeria closed with ... Read More »

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The Police Command in Lagos State says it will arrest both motorcyclist and passenger as part of measures to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycle operations in the state. Its spokesman, Mr Benjamin Hundeyin, announced this on Saturday in his Twitter handle, monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). “Under the new total ban of motorcycles in the six ... Read More »

There was breakdown of law and order at the Court of Appeal in Benin City late Friday as suspected thugs allegedly supported by persons in security outfit uniforms, invaded the courtroom, chased away court workers and carted away several court documents. It was gathered that some lawyers had approached the Appellate court to file an appeal arising from a judgment ... Read More »

The Olanite royal family sued the governor, Attorney General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice, and the Alaafin of Oyo (on behalf of the Atiba Traditional Council) in 2020. The family is seeking, among others, an order that the ‘Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration’ be ammended by the Atiba Local Government Area. The Alaafin affairs are currently under Atiba Local Government. ... Read More »

Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced the expansion of the services of Leo, its Artificial Intelligence chatbot to Google Business Chat and Instagram. Leo – UBA’s AI-powered chatbot, which enables customers to make use of their social media accounts to carry out key banking transactions – was first introduced in January, 2018. It has since ... Read More »

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar chased journalists out of the Plateau State Secretariat of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP when he visited on Monday to meet with the State leadership and delegates of the Party to discuss his 2023 Presidential ambition. Atiku is the first aspirant to bar journalists from the PDP hall even though some of his co-contenders have ... Read More »