Day: March 21, 2024

Announcing the 2024 GTCO Food and Drink Festival… A Celebration of Authentic Flavours

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The countdown has begun to the 7th edition of the most anticipated culinary festival in Africa and Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) is excited to announce dates for the 2024 GTCO Food and Drink Festival, set to take place from Friday, April 26th to Sunday, April 28th, at GTCentre, Plot 1 Water Corporation Drive, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos. The GTCO Food and Drink Festival is widely recognised as the continent’s biggest food and drink festival, bringing together millions of food lovers and entrepreneurs to celebrate the rich and diverse…

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Adaora Umeoji becomes first female CEO of Zenith Bank

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Dr. Adaora Umeoji has been announced as Zenith Bank’s new Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. This appointment was disclosed on Tuesday, in a statement signed by the company secretary, Michael Otu, which was filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited. Umeoji’s appointment will take effect from June 1, 2024, following the expiration of office of the current GMD, Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, on May 31, 2024. “Dame (Dr) Adaora Umeoji is the first female GMDCEO since the inception of the bank, and her appointment is consistent with the bank’s executive…

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Herdsmen attack Otukpo LG, 2 killed, many missing

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Suspected armed herdsmen have reportedly attacked the Onipi community of Adoka in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, leaving two persons dead while several others have been declared missing from their farms after attack. The armed herders were reported to have besieged the community, on Tuesday afternoon, and attacked the victims in their farms. According to a source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, “After killing the victims in the farms, the herdsmen also burnt down yam barns and a mini truck conveying tubers of yam from the farms.…

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Man arrested for threatening to kill EFCC chairman

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One Kayode Cole has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for issuing a death threat against the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede. Cole, according to EFCC’s Spokesman Dele Oyewale, was arrested at the Lugbe axis of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The suspect made the death threat through his Instagram page handle: “1billionsecretss”, while commenting on a story posted by a popular Instagram blogger, Instablog9ja on February 1, 2024. Instablog9ja had posted a story with a caption: “A Religious Sect Is Laundering…

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Ministers, others banned from foreign trips for three months

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Ministers, heads of agencies, and other government officials have been banned from embarking on public funded foreign trips by President Bola Tinubu. The ban will last for three months in the first instance and will take effect on April 1, 2024. This was contained in a letter dated March 12, 2024, and signed by the Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila; and addressed to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. In January, Tinubu issued an order to reduce the number of people accompanying him…

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Man sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for raping minor

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A man, Dennis Okubiat,has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Wednesday, for raping a 12-year-old girl for three months, which caused urinary incontinence. Justice Ismail Ijelu held that the victim had testified that she went for evangelism and, in the process, went to check on the convict, who had not been coming to church after the pastor of her church said they should visit members who had not been seen in church for some time. He said that she testified…

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