archiveDecember 23, 2019

receives Best SME Supporting Bank from Tribune Newspapers Fidelity Bank Plc has remained a leading financial institution among Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for deposit transaction, credit facilities and overall customer service experience, recording significant improvements in a recent survey. The bank which has grown its reputation for supporting small...

  pledges 70% implementation before end of year says civil servants to receive 13th month salary on 28th of December   Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has signed the 2020 Appropriation Bill of the State into Law. The 2020 budget signing ceremony, which was held inside the State’s Executive...

Primero Transport Services Ltd., operator of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos, says it is worried by commercial motorcyclists, buses and private cars encroaching on BRT lanes and impeding services. Mr Fola Tinubu, the Managing Director of the firm, raised the concern in an interview with the News Agency of...

  Algeria’s powerful army chief, Lt.-Gen. Ahmed Salah, who was instrumental in bringing down long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has died of a heart attack, state media reported on Monday. The 79-year-old’s death comes at a time of mass protests across Africa’s largest country, with many Algerians demanding that the ruling...

  Last minutes Christmas female shoppers now hide money in their undies to avoid being mugged at Balogun Market in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that female shoppers at the market have to device means of hiding their valuables from pickpockets who had invaded the market in...

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja Monday withdrew from a suit seeking the release of the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, the Department of State Service’s custody. Mohammed said he could not hear or declare judgment on Sowore’s case filed on December 10. He explained that...

  Royal aides cleared A Saudi court has sentenced five people to death for the murder of government critic Jamal Khashoggi but ruled that last year’s assassination wasn’t premeditated and said it didn’t have enough evidence to incriminate two top officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The verdict,...

Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos has turned down the request for post-conviction bail filed by a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who was convicted of N7.1bn fraud and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Kalu was convicted and jailed on December 4, 2019, by...

  The governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in the Ogun State governorship election Abiodun Akinlade has announced his return to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Akinlade’s return to the APC comes barely days after the Supreme Court dismissed his petition to challenge APC’s Dapo Abiodun election as...

  A member of the House of Representatives, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa, Oyo state, Hon. Shina Peller has been arrested and detained by the Nigeria Police Force on Monday for attempting to bail and stand as surety for some people detained by the police. Policemen at Moroko Police station, Lagos State were...