Day: September 10, 2019

Wema Bank’s ALAT wins 2019 Best Digital Platform Award

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ALAT by Wema, Africa’s first fully digital bank, has emerged Best Digital Platform in Nigeria 2019 by International Business Magazine, a leading global journal that promotes flagship talent bearers from across the globe. Having met the award criteria for the year under review, the banking platform powered by Wema Bank was judged the winner by a deciding panel in recognition of its simplicity and refreshing service delivery. ALAT by Wema is a borderless banking app that offers an easy signup process, exciting saving options and other benefits to help customers…

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Cornerstone insurance sued over unauthorized use of actor’s photograph

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A Nigerian actor, Ahmed Afolabi Roleola, who alleged that, an Insurance company Cornerstone Insurance Plc and its subsidiary Cornerstone life Assurance Limited have been using his photograph and goodwill to propel their business for commercial gains has renewed his N340 million legal battle against the two companies.  The case has been on since 2017. In an amendment statement of claim filed before a Federal high court in Lagos. The plaintiff Ahmed Afolabi Roleola, who claimed to have established his name within and outside Nigeria as a model, personality and in…

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Alleged manipulation of tax :Borini Prono company urges court to stop Police investigation 

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A limited liability company Borini Prono & company Nigeria Limited, whose Directors are under investigation over alleged crime of fraudulent practice to cheat the Federal Inland Revenue on tax and to deny contract facilitators of financial entitlement has dragged Inspector General of Police before a Federal high court in Lagos South West Nigeria,  The Borini Prono company is urging the court to restrain the defendants Police officers from inviting, interrogating, investigating, or detaining the officers of the company. Joined as co-respondents in the suit are, The Assistant Inspector General of…

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Student rewarded for returning colleagues’ misplaced fees

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Dr. Samson Odedina, Rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, has said that the institution will pay tuition for a student, Aminat Olaleye, who returned her colleague’s  misplaced school fees for one academic session. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Yemi Ajibola on Thursday. Ajibola said the management would pay Olaleye’s tuition for one academic session as a mark of honour for her integrity. He explained that Olaleye, a Higher National Diploma, accounting student, found a cash of twenty thousand naira within the school premises and returned…

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Senators would soon be stoned –Prof. Ogunyemi

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Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, says Nigerians would soon begin to pelt senators with stones for being insensitive to their plights as demonstrated by their plan to acquire exotic cars despite the harsh economic situation in the country. Ogunyemi stated this on Monday at the end of ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. Ogunyemi, who accused the lawmakers of making anti-people policies, said it would not be long before the Nigerian masses begin to attack lawmakers.…

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Xenophobic attacks can’t be stopped– S/African defence minister

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South Africa’s Defence Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has said on Monday that the attacks against foreigners in South Africa were planned by criminals and that government can’t prevent it. Mapisa-Nqakula who said this in an interview described South Africa as an angry nation and insisted that the government can’t prevent the ongoing violence. “The reality is that we have an angry nation. What’s happening can never be prevented by any government,” she said. According to her, the death of two people during a clash in Johannesburg CBD on Sunday Sept. 8,…

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Football: Yekini’s close friends behind his death -Odegbami

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Segun Odegbami, former Green Eagles captain, has alleged that Rashidi Yekini’s close friends were behind his death in 2012. The ‘mathematical’ as he’s fondly called disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television. Odegbami, who captained Nigeria to their first title at the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations in Lagos, said Yekini was never insane but was callously murdered due to his generosity. “His people actually went and abducted him from his car and took him to a native doctor of some sort to cure him of his ‘insanity. Why…

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