Day: November 22, 2018

Union Bank Receives Multiple Awards at 2018 Marketing World Awards Ceremony

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Union Bank has received the ‘Marketing Campaign of the Year’ and ‘Innovative Financial Brand of the Year’ awards at the 2018 Marketing World awards. The awards were officially presented at a ceremony that held recently at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, Ghana and brought together top practitioners and stakeholders from the African integrated marketing communications industry. Now in its 8th year, the annual Marketing World awards were established to recognise and celebrate top individuals and organisations across Africa who have developed and implemented exceptional integrated marketing campaigns during the…

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How Jose Mourinho Saved My Chelsea Career” – Didier Drogba

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Didier Drogba has revealed how former coach Jose Mourinho saved his career at Chelsea. The Ivory Costa international only announced his retirement from professional football last night and admits his Chelsea career could have ended sooner. Drogba joined Chelsea from Marseille and the meteoric rise from France’s second division to the bright lights of London left him scared. But he has revealed a conversation with Mourinho inspired him to become one ofthe club’s biggest legends. “The only time I doubted myself was the time I moved from Marseille to Chelsea,”…

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Man arrested for slaughtering daughter for sacrifice in Benue

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A man identified as John Depuun has been arrested by police for killing her daughter for sacrifice in Benue state. The Chairman, Konshisha Local Government, Mrs Justina Ubebe confirmed the killing of the infant girl by her father as sacrificial offering in a village in Tse-Agberagba in the area. Confirming the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Thursday in Makurdi, Ubebe described the act as ” strange and bizarre”. She said the act, which happened on Wednesday night, had already been reported to the…

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Femi Otedola tells court Farouk Lawan demanded $500,000 bribe

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Femi Otedola, Founder of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, has said that a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, demanded $500,000 bribe from him. Lawan was former Chairman of the House of Representatives committee that probed the multi-billion naira fuel subsidy fraud by the seventh Assembly. The former lawmaker is accused of receiving money from Otedola to remove Zenon from the list of oil companies allegedly involved in the fuel subsidy fraud. He was charged by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation for allegedly receiving…

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Nurse apologises to families of over 100 victims for giving injection overdose

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Niels Hoegel, 41-year-old German former hospital nurse who has admitted to killing more than 100 patients in his care apologised on Thursday to victims’ grieving relatives. “If I knew a way that would help you, then I would take it, believe me,” he said at his trial. “I am fully convinced now that I owe every relative an explanation,” said the bearded, heavyset defendant “I am honestly sorry.” Hoegel, Germany’s worst post-war serial killer, has already spent nearly a decade in prison on a life term for six other patient…

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