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PSC chairman, Musiliu Smith resigns

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Alhaji Musiliu Smith, Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), has resigned from his position. PSC spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, confirmed the development last night. According to him, Smith resigned on “health grounds,” adding that the commission will issue an official statement regarding the development today. In the interim, the second most senior Commissioner in the PSC, Retired Supreme Court Justice, Clara Ogunbiyi, who is representing the judiciary has assumed duty as Chairman. The retired Inspector General of Police had been at loggerhead with the police hierarchy, particularly the Inspector General…

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Mercy Chinwo publicly celebrates one-month marriage amid criticism

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Mercy Chinwo, Nigeria Gospel singer, has showered praises on her husband, Pastor Blessed Uzochikwa, on their one-month marriage celebration. In a post late Monday, the singer shared a picture of herself and her husband on her Instagram page, as she sang his praises. Chinwo noted that getting married to Pastor Blessed was the best decision she made after salvation. She went on to hail the cleric as a man “filled with grace and truth”. The singer wrote, “I can’t contain my joy and excitement. It’s one month already with my…

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Musician, others sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for cybercrime

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A Lokoja- born musician, Samuel Onojah, and two others have been convicted and sentenced by Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, to 20 years imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime. Onojah was convicted on Monday, September 12, 2022 alongside Victor Kadiyamo and Jejelowo Segun, after pleading guilty to separate counts of internet fraud. They were arraigned in court by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The charge against Samuel read in part, “That you, Samuel Onojah, sometime in…

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Family kicks as lady offers Ekweremadu’s daughter kidney

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Annastasia Olamma, a 24-year-old female skit maker, has said her family is against her decision to donate one of her kidneys to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of a former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Olamma had on Tuesday made the offer after Sonia announced that she needed a kidney donor because she had been diagnosed with rare kidney disease, FSGS Nephrotic Syndrome. Sonia made the announcement on social media months after her parents were arrested in the United Kingdom and charged by the UK Metropolitan Police with conspiracy…

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Collaboration, Agriculture and Technological Innovation as tools to Reposition the Financial Services Industry

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Mr. Farouk Gumel, Chairman, Board of Directors, Union Bank of Nigeria delivered the keynote address that formed part of the theme for the 15th Annual Banking and Finance Conference year’s conference tagged Repositioning the Financial Services Industry for an Evolving Global Context. The two-day event, hosted by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), began on September 13, 2022, and is being attended by dignitaries including the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the Minister of Finance Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Governor of Lagos…

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Robbery operation in Delta thwarted by the state Police command

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State Police Command, yesterday, recovered a fabricated AK-47 rifle with 12 rounds of ammunition and 23 live cartridges as its operatives prevented a robbery attempt at Hausa Market, Asaba The command in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, said: “On the 11/09/2022 about 0430hrs, the command in a swift response to a distress call from Hausa Market in Asaba, about some suspicious looking persons using a tricycle in the area, operatives of the command’s CP-Decoy Squad were detailed to the area, where the hoodlums on sighting the…

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5 injured, 17 shops and 5 houses damaged as gas explosion occurs in Jigawa

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Smuggled gas explodes in Babura Local Government area of Jigawa state as The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state says that five people were injured. Spokesman of the NSCDC, Adamu Shehu, confirmed that the explosion also damaged shops and houses. Also, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the incident. He said 17 shops and five houses were damaged by the inferno caused by the explosion. NSCDC spokesman Shehu in his account said the incident occurred on Monday at about 9.00…

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Anglican Priest’s house invaded by armed robbers

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Priest house of Saint Barnabas Cathedral, Anglican Communion at Sabo Oke in Ilorin, Kwara State was invaded by armed robbers and items worth millions of naira were stolen The victim of the attack, Reverend Isaiah Afolayan said the hoodlums, armed with sharp objects, broke into his apartment, located on the top floor of the two-storey building, threatening to kill his family members if they refused to cooperate with them. He also said his laptop, fairly used MacBook Pro, worth N1.3 million, a TV set and his phone were stolen. “We…

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FIRSTBANK: THE EMBODIMENT OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

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Who should corporate responsibility and sustainability lessons be taken from? Some companies are still unclear about the concept but latching onto the sustainability mantra anyway, because it has become a marketing buzzword for business? Or a company through whose creed and deeds, over the many decades it has been around, people can see corporate responsibility and sustainability lived (first) and preached (subsequently)? If the above set of questions constituted a question in an examination hall, it would be one of the easiest of questions to answer. Not one person would…

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