Olayiwola Oshunrinade First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) has laid off about 100 senior staff members in a major organisational shakeup. According to a report by Nairametrics on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said the bank’s top executives were asked to leave — as part of its corporate restructuring and repositioning plan for 2025 — […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade Mahdi Shehu, a prominent activist and political commentator based in Kaduna, has been taken into custody by the Department of State Services (DSS) over allegations of sharing a misleading video that went viral on social media. The video, which Shehu has since deleted, falsely suggested that the Nigerian government planned to establish a […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade Segun Olowookere, an Osun State resident who was sentenced to death by hanging for stealing a chicken and eggs in 2010, has been released from jail. On December 26, Ademola Adeleke, governor of Osun state, granted pardon to 53 convicts, including Olowookere. This decision follows the viral interview with Biola Adebayo, a Nigerian […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade A Federal High Court in Abuja has okayed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s application to freeze 24 bank accounts domiciled in different banks over allegations bordering on terrorism financing. Justice Emeka Nwite, who granted the application after EFCC’s lawyer, Martha Babatunde, moved an ex-parte motion to the effect, gave the commission […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade President Bola Tinubu has expressed his profound joy at the re-opening of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga on Monday, described the development as another remarkable achievement in 2024 that has strengthened […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade The 6 division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state, announced that it has destroyed 20,000 illegal refining sites and recovered 90,000 stolen petroleum products in the Niger Delta. In a statement on Sunday, Jonah Danjuma, the division’s assistant director of public relations, revealed that the military also […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade President Bola Tinubu will announce his ambassadors within the next few weeks, one of his aides, Ademola Oshodi, has said. Oshodi, a Senior Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs and Protocol to Tinubu, stated this on Channels Television last night. “I believe in the next few weeks, there will be a pronouncement for the […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade Barring any last-minute change of plan, councils will begin to get direct allocation from the Federation Account next month (January). It will begin with the disbursement of this month’s allocation to the tiers of government, a source told our correspondent at the weekend. The direct receipt from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade To end speculations over the forthcoming council polls in Lagos State, the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) has disclosed that the election will hold across the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and the 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The party added that elections scheduled for 2025 will hold across the LCDAs […]
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Olayiwola Oshunrinade Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has tackled Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers State, over the latter’s recent comments on the political crisis in the state. Dr. Odili had at an event in Rivers on Saturday said Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, prevented Wike from turning the state […]
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