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GTBank fashion weekend 2016

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The GTBank fashion weekend, a two day fashion event was set up in a bid to promote enterprise in the country. Guarantee Trust Bank hosted the 2-day fashion event tagged “GTBank FSHN WKND” at the Landmark Events Center, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event which featured top fashion designers, make up artistes as well as jewellers within and outside the country, included various display of fashion collections. The event also featured series of masterclasses that gave participants the opportunity to meet and interact with the top names in the fashion business.…

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Green card saga: Wole Soyinka responds to critics, my ‘Wolexit’ stands

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I shall begin on a morbid note. One of the horror stories that emerged from the Daesh (Isis) controlled parts of Iraq was the gruesome tale of the mother who had a daughter affected by wanderlust, even in that endangered zone. One day, when she looked for her to attend to some home chores, she found that she had gone missing yet again. As she searched, she shouted in frustration: ”As Allah is my witness, I’ll kill that girl when I catch up with her”. A neighbor overheard and reported…

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Jibrin writes open letter to Buhari on Budget fraud and corruption in the house of Reps.

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Your Excellency sir, let me once again commend you for the good work you are executing and the credible leadership you have offered our nation since assumption of office about a year and half ago. I write this letter to you as a last resort to seek action on the allegations of budget fraud, abuse of office and corruption I leveled against Speaker Yakubu Dogara and three other Principal Officers of the House of Representatives and use your good office to ensure that urgent reforms are implemented in the House…

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Obat oil management refutes reports of Skye bank taking over it’s depots

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The attention of the management of Obat Oil & Petroleum has been drawn to the fictitious report making round in the Newspapers and social media about a purported takeover of the company by Skye Bank. We hereby refute the report and state categorically that there was no such incident. Contrary to claims that the take over was approved and initiated by reason of the Federal High Court ruling, there is no ruling of the Federal High Court directing or authorizing Skye Bank to take over Obat Tank Farm/ depot or…

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Buhari is bereft of ideas -Fayose

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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, has again, hit hard at President Muhammadu Buhari over his seemingly inability to find solution to myriad of problems confronting the nation, saying the President and his party lack ideas and appeared confused on how best to alleviate the people’s suffering. In his words, “Unfortunately, Muhammadu Buhari cannot find solution to hunger, unemployment, depressed economy and insecurity in the country because he is bereft of the ideas. Nigerians should brace up to change the change because the right leader, the right president is yet to…

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Skye Bank to take over Obat Oil over alleged N2.1bn debt

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Over alleged N2.1 billion debt, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered Skye Bank Plc to take over Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited’s depot. Justice Jude Dagat made an order directing the Inspector-General of Police, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, the Lagos Commissioner of Police as well as the court’s Deputy Sheriff to assist in the enforcement of the order. Obat Oil and Petroleum’s depot at H.I.M. Oba (Dr.) F.E.O. Akinruntan Close, Beachland Estate, Apapa, Lagos, was sealed up yesterday pending liquidation of the debt. The order was…

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Bank manager, bride-groom, 3 others killed in Bank Robbery.

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The robbery attack on a Bank at Otun-Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Thursday night has left four persons, including a soon-to-wed young security guard dead. Among those killed were the Manager and cashier of Heritage Bank, security man at Unity Bank and the night guard to the town’s monarch, Oba Adedapo Popoola, Oore Otun of Moba land. Ekiti State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Alberto Adeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said that the police had deposited the bodies of the deceased at the morgue…

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Contempt of Court: Mohammed Babangida’s Estranged Wife, Rahama May Go To Jail

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The estranged wife of the son of former military head of state, Mohammed Babangida, Rahama appears to be playing to the gallery over the custody of two of their four children. Rahama, a daughter of billionaire owner of Oriental Energy, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, has continually been keeping the children from her ex-husband, Mohammed despite the ruling of a court, which gave the custody of the four children to him. The lady, who many said exhibits bad manners, is said to have continued to keep the children, and has also taken…

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Man standing trial for rape re-arrested for another rape case

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Chibuzor Okechukwu, 22-year old, who had earlier been detained at State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, and is now standing trial over a rape case has been arrested again for forcefully abducting and rapping another girl in Ilogbo, Ajangbadi area of Lagos. According to source, one Achumba Chima who claimed to have employed the victim named Chioma Odo as his house girl reported to the police Station at Ajangbadi on November 9, 2016 that his employee was forcefully taken on the 8th of November, 2016 and raped by Okechukwu who resides…

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Air Vice Marshall Omenyi remanded in Kuje Prison

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Air Vice Marshall Tony Omenyi (rtd) was yesterday arraigned by the EFCC, alongside his company, Huzee Nigeria Limited, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 3-count charge bordering on abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N136.325.000.00 (one hundred and thirty six million, three hundred and twenty five thousand naira). Omenyi is being prosecuted for his alleged role in the diversion of funds meant for the purchase of arms by the military. Count 2 of the charge reads: “That…

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