With the feat, Wizkid became the first Africa-based artiste to perform at the arena, earning a spot on a stage that had been graced by the likes of Drake, Beyonce and Adele. History was made on Saturday in the UK when Nigerian Singer Ayodeji Balogun, better known as Wizkid, performed to a sold out crowd of 20,000 at The 02 ... Read More »

MTN Group on Monday said it was perfecting the details of its proposed Nigeria Initial Public Offering (IPO), the News Agency of Nigeria. MTN Group’s spokesperson, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed this in response to enquiries by NAN on why the company was yet to file applications for the proposed offer. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian ... Read More »

The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have been worse but for President Muhammadu Buhari’s Reconciliation Committee headed by the party’s National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Coordinator of Buhari Support Organisation in Ondo State, Mike Adeyanju, has said. Adeyanju said setting up of the Committee was recognition of the problems confronting the party and the resolve ... Read More »

Ex-president accused of undemocratic actions The Presidency yesterday attacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration, especially under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for “toppling” elected state governments, using the police and the secret service. In an article to commemorate the third anniversary of the Buhari Presidency last night, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhamadu Buhari on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu ... Read More »

    As part of its mission to improve the lives of the communities in which the United Bank for Africa operates, UBA Foundation continues to encourage African youths to adopt the culture of reading through its ‘Read Africa’ initiative. Read Africa aims to rekindle the reading culture amongst young Africans. Designed and introduced in 2011 by the UBA Foundation, ... Read More »

(L to R) Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mr. Olatunji Ayanlaja, SAN ;ChairHolder, Prof. Ayo Olukotun, Mr. Folu Aderibigbe of Globacom, Mrs Stella Olukotun and Chairman of the occasion, Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju at the 2nd Annual Oba SikIru Adetona Professorial Chair Lecture of the Olabisi Onabanjo University sponsored by Globacom on Thursday in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. A foremost historian, Emeritus ... Read More »

l-r: Eniola Cameron Cole;  Vice Principal Academic, International School, UNILAG, Mr. K.O Amusan ; Executive Director, Lagos and West Bank, Marketing; Liadi Ayoku; Group Managing Director, United Bank for Africa, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka; Principal  Dr. M. Brai Malik; Vice Principal, Administration, International School, UNILAG. Mr. Mr AO. Popoola and  Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, United Bank for Africa, Mrs ... Read More »

Pan-African Financial Services Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc will be rewarding its loyal customers who refer friends and family to the bank in its new diaspora campaign. The campaign is designed to reward customers of the bank who refer their Diaspora friends/relatives to open a UBA account. Specifically, this campaign will last for three months and the bank ... Read More »

  Pix 1 dsc 3459, MD/CEO, Transcorp Hotels Plc, Valentine Ozigbo; National President, (ITP/Chairman LOC, NTTS), Abiodun Odusanwwo and Gay Murray Bruce at the National Tourism Transport  Summit and Expo held in Abuja The managing director/chief executive officer of Transcorp Hotels Plc, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, has lamented the neglect of the Nigeria’s tourism sector by governments at all levels. Ozigbo ... Read More »

  The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has stopped the trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta on charges of non-declaration of assets. A two-man panel of the CCT, in a ruling on Tuesday upheld the argument by Justice Ngwuta, to the effect that, as a serving Justice of the Supreme Court, he could not be tried in any court or tribunal, ... Read More »