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Access Bank Wins 2017 Web Jurist Award

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One of the leading financial institutions in Nigeria, Access Bank Plc, has just clinched the ‘Best Overall Website’ in the Banking Category of the 2017 Web Jurist Awards by Phillips Consulting. The Bank led on almost all parameters used to evaluate the winners. Access Bank’s points from the different categories summed up to a total of 315, followed by Zenith Bank with a total rating of 303 points, while UBA took the third spot. Access Bank’s claim of the top prize didn’t come as a surprise to many within the…

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FirstBank accounts for 37percent ATM transactions in 2017

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Reflecting its leadership position with the efficiency and creativity of the Bank’s Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), First Bank Plc has accounted for about 402,102 bill payments made through it’s ATMs in 2017. This was made known in a statement by First Bank Plc. BANK customers used ATM to purchase N1.7 billion phone airtime in 2017, even as the bank accounted for 37 percent of bills payment transactions on ATMs across the country. “FirstBank is presently leading in the industry as the bank with the highest number of Automated Teller Machines…

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ZINOX GROUP ACQUIRES KONGA IN BOLD RETURN TO E-COMMERCE

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After months of strategic negotiations with foreign investors Naspers and AB Kinnevik, the Zinox Group, Nigeria’s foremost integrated ICT solutions conglomerate and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), is now the majority shareholder in e-commerce giant, Konga – an unprecedented move that is widely expected to raise the profile of e-commerce in the country. Naspers is a South Africa-based multinational internet and media group, offering services in more than 130 countries while AB Kinnevik, founded in 1936, is a Swedish investment company investing primarily in digital consumer brands. The development signifies a…

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Wike to nursing mothers: Go to Hospitals, not faith healers

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has advised mothers in the state to resist placing their hope in “faith healing homes” and rely primarily on trained experts and relevant health facilities for safe delivery and nursing of their child. The governor gave the advice at the flag-off of the 2nd round of the state’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week in Ogale, Eleme Local Government Area of the state, also warned against patronage of quacks and herbal practitioners by pregnant women. Represented by the state Health Commissioner, Prof Chike Princewill,…

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Man stabs colleagues to death in South Africa

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A Nigerian man has stabbed two of his colleagues to death in South Africa. The Secretary of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr. Emeka Ezinteje, confirmed the incident early on Saturday. He revealed from Johannesburg, South Africa, that the incident was due to a business dispute. Ezinteje said, “We have received a report that at 3am on Saturday, Mr. Ekweghiariri Chidi Isacc, 34, a native of Ehime in the Isiala Mbano Local Government of Imo State and Mr. Nzechukwu Alabuche, 35, from Azia in Anambra State were stabbed to…

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Oluwo of Iwo accuses Ooni of maltreatment at public gathering

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Oba Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo, has alleged that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, ordered his bodyguard to push him out of the way during the meeting of traditional rulers in the country held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Oba Akanbi made the allegation in a statement in Oshogbo. The Oluwo claimed that the incident happened on Tuesday at the Hotel Presidential when the Ooni was called to the podium to give a vote of thanks. The statement read, “The bodyguard of the Ooni of…

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Old students association renovates Iganmode Grammer School

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The 1987/88 set of the Old Students Association of Iganmode Grammar School, Ota, Ogun State has renovated and refurbished a block of six classrooms of the Secondary school in order to create a more conducive environment for students and teachers. The block of classrooms which was used by the set as class three in the year 1985/86 had been in a deplorable state in recent years was refurbished to give the school a face lift. Iganmode Grammar School which was one of the best schools in the country owing to…

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APC Welcomes Coalition For Nigeria, Says Movement Not A Threat To Party

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THE ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) has welcomed the existence of the newly launched Coalition for Nigeria Movement. The ruling party also said the movement is never a threat to its own existence, noting that the only threat it can begin to worry about lies with the Nigerian people. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this on Wednesday while reacting to the official flag off of the group in Abuja. “The prospect of a coalition does not threaten the APC at all. The only threat…

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Husband kills children as wife listens on phone

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A 62 year-old man, John Battaglia, has been arrested for killing his two young daughters while the girls’ mother listened on the phone and heard the gunshots and her children’s screams. After the shooting, he went to a bar with his girlfriend and was arrested shortly afterward at a tattoo parlour where he was getting rose tattoos to remember his dead daughters, court documents showed. The incident happened in Dallas, Texas, in 2001. John Battaglia had been divorced from his wife, Mary Jean Pearl, for about a year when he…

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Fidelity Bank MD reveals MSMEs in Nigeria doubled in 2yrs

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Managing Director, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo has revealed that the number of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operating in Nigeria doubled over two years between 2011 and 2013, from 17.9 million to 39 million. He stated this at a Business, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment and Professionalism (BEEP) Conference 1.0 organised by Flame Academy and Consulting Limited, in Lagos, with the theme: “Developing Professionals, Improving Businesses”. He said: “With Nigeria’s over 180 million populations, 60 percent are within age 15 and 55 and that suggests a youth based population. “In…

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