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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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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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Wike to Amaechi: You did not attract any meaningful project to Rivers as minister

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Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor, on Monday said his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, did not attract any meaningful project to the state as Minister of Transportation; describing his tenure as a total failure. Wike said this while reacting to Amaechi’s comments that the Rivers State Government refused to give state burial to the late Chief Alabo Graham-Douglas that was laid to rest last weekend. He used the occasion of the formal inauguration of the reconstructed former Rivbank Insurance building in Port Harcourt on Monday to lampoon the former transportation minister. He…

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Ekweremadu’s daughter seeks kidney donor 82 days after dad’s detention

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The ailing daughter of the detained former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia Ekweremadu, has appealed to members of the public to donate a kidney to save her life. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, were arrested by the Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London, United Kingdom, for bringing a child into the country to allegedly harvest his organs. They were arrested in June 2022 at the Heathrow Airport in London and arraigned before a UK Magistrate’s Court. While Ekweremadu’s wife was granted bail by a…

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Three female students found dead in Ojukwu varsity hostel

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  Three female students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU, Anambra State, were at the weekend found dead in their hostel at the Igbariam campus of the institution. The three female students were identified as Obidiaso Chidera (200 level Political Science); Mercy (200 level Pharmacy); and Emmanuella, (200 level Business Administration). The cause of their deaths has not been ascertained, although some people on the university campus suspected foul play as they were locked in their rooms from outside. “The students were locked up in the apartment. When we gained…

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Pregnant lady, others arrested by NDLEA for drug possession

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A 25-year-old pregnant woman, Favour Haruna, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, with 82 pinches of methamphetamine as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup in Auchi, Edo State. The NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who highlighted other arrests made by the agency last week in a statement on Sunday, said a Brazilian returnee, Okolie Nwabueze, was also nabbed for importing 92 wraps of cocaine into the country through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Nwabueze, a father of…

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Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy attacked by gunmen, policemen killed

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Suspected assailants opened fire on the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on Sunday at Enugwu-Ukwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State leaving unspecified number of police operatives killed. Sources in the community, who do not want their names in print for security purposes, said when the gunmen opened fire on the convoy, police operatives in the convoy responded and some of the policemen were gunned down in the shoot-out. A source said, “Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was attacked today by some hoodlums in Enugwu-Ukwu. It was a calculated…

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