Author: topnews

Ecobank engages new set of graduates in training

topnews

Through its training academy, ECOBANK Nigeria has commenced entry level development programme for new set of Graduate Trainees. A statement from the bank said the training programme is an intensive eight-week medley of learning interventions for fresh graduates. The first set of 67 trainees will graduate at the end of the month and will be absorbed into different roles in the bank. According to the Head, Human Resources, Ecobank Nigeria, Gloria Byamugisha, the first set of trainees at the academy demonstrated a high level of commitment and orientation towards the…

Read More

Measles claims over 2500 lives in DRC

topnews

A measles epidemic has caused more than 2,700 deaths between January and early August in the DRC, killing more people in seven months than Ebola in one year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported in a tweet read on Saturday. “The measles epidemic declared on June 10 is the deadliest that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has known since 2011-2012 Between January and early August 2019, it infected more than 145,000 people and resulted in 2,758 deaths” , according to the MSF-DRC tweet dated Friday. “Despite the magnitude of the…

Read More

Guardiola Unhappy With Refereeing Inconsistencies In Man City Home Draw Against Spurs

topnews

Pep Guardiola insists the use of VAR must be more consistent after Manchester City were denied a late winner in the 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Gabriel Jesus thought he had slammed in a last-gasp third goal for City, only for VAR to chalk the strike off due to a handball from Aymeric Laporte – in scenes similar to those from the epic Champions League clash against Spurs last season. While the video review system came to Spurs’ rescue, it did not aid City…

Read More

Waiter shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich’

topnews

Apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris. The waiter’s colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris on Friday night, a source said. Attempts to revive the 28-year-old failed and he died at the scene. The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper “as his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough”, fled the scene. Police said a murder investigation has been…

Read More

GTBank Declares Profit Before Tax Of N115.8b

topnews

Audited financial results of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has been released for the half year ended June 30, 2019 to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges. The half year result shows positive growth across key financial metrics and reflects GTBank’s leading position as one of the best managed financial institutions in Africa. The Bank reported a Profit Before Tax of N115.8 billion, representing a growth of 5.6 per cent over N109.6 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2018. The Bank’s loan book grew by 1.0 per cent from N1.262…

Read More

Ekweremadu assaulted by IPOB members in Germany

topnews

Sen. Ike Enweremadu, the immediate past Deputy President of the Senate, has confirmed a physical assault on him by some members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, in Nuremberg, Germany, on Saturday. Enweremadu confirmed the attack in a statement released by his Media Assistant, Uche Anichukwu in Abuja. Reports has it that a 64-second video about the attack had gone viral on the social media earlier on Saturday. In the video, Ekweremadu was seen being violently questioned over his alleged conspiracy with the Federal Government to proscribe the…

Read More

Match fixing: FIFA ban Siasia for life, hands him $50,000 fine

topnews

For agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches’ for betting purposes, Samson Siasia has been fined $50,000 and banned for life by FIFA . The former Super Eagles coach’s ban emanated from an extensive investigation into matches that Wilson Perumal attempted to fix. In a statement from FIFA’s independent Ethics Committee, “Siasia was found guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches that Perumal attempted to manipulate for betting purposes.” Siasia’s action breaches art. 11 (Bribery) of 2009 edition of the FIFA Code…

Read More

Man caught stealing phones while preaching in Ibadan

topnews

Akinjide Durojaiye, a self-acclaimed evangelist, was on Thursday beaten to a pulp for allegedly stealing two new Tecno mobile phones from a shop within the Femi Johnson Building in the Dugbe area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The 49-year-old man, who claimed to be an evangelist at the Dominion Assembly, Ilare-Ijesa in Osun State, said he was in the shop, where mobile phones and accessories were being sold, to preach the gospel to all the people he found there. Durojaiye claimed that he came from Ilare-Ijesa to Ibadan on an evangelisation…

Read More

15-year-old stages own kidnap, demands N500k ransom from father

topnews

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy who allegedly staged his own kidnap and demanded the sum of N500,000 as ransom. The minor, who was paraded in Jos on Thursday, said he initiated the plan with his friends in order to enable him buy clothes and celebrate his graduation. “I was the one who initiated the plan and not my friends. I wanted my father to give me money for clothes and to also celebrate my graduation,” he said. Briefing newsmen on the arrest of the minor, the Commissioner of Police,…

Read More

El-Zakzaky returns home, rejects treatment in Indian hospital

topnews

Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, , left India for Nigeria, yesterday, three days after embarking on a medical trip to the Asian country. Spokesman of the movement, Ibrahim Musa, in a statement yesterday, accused the Federal Government of frustrating the treatment of the IMN leader. The statement read: “Following lack of a breakthrough in the impasse that ensued in the treatment in New Delhi of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, it is now confirmed that the Sheikh is on his way back to Abuja. “In a video message sent…

Read More