Category: News

The Quadrangle to host Dr. Rafiu Ladipo at Nana Hotel

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The Quadrangle, an events and entertainment company with bias for hosting and celebrating high profile and distinguished personalities, is set to host the President General of Nigerian Football and Other Sports Supporters Club, Dr. Rafiu Ladipo to a grand and colourful reception in Ota, Ogun State on Sunday December 22, 2019. The event is billed to take place at Nana Hotel, Ota, and according to the organisers of the event, sports personalities, media practitioners, captains of industries and people from diverse walks of life are expected to grace the occasion.…

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Car theft allegation: Naira Marley says some people want to stain his name

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Popular Nigerian musician, Naira Marley, has reacted to reports that a Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has ordered his arrest over alleged car theft. The musician reacted via his verified Twitter handle @officialnairam1 after the news broke on Monday by The News Agency of Nigeria, reporting that chief magistrate, Mr. Tajudeen Elias, ordered an investigating Police officer, Sgt. Sunday Idoko, to arrest and arraign Naira Marley. The agency reported that the magistrate ordered the IPO to produce Naira Marley before the court on December 21, when the case would be listed for further…

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Two killed as NURTW clash in Lagos

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Two persons have died and scores of residents injured when members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed in Lagos yesterday. Top News gathered that, the death occurred during the clash orchestrated by one of the unit chairmen, who wanted to overthrow the incumbent chairman of Ijesha branch at Surulere axis of Lagos. It was gathered that the clash over who controls NURTW in Ijesha started on Sunday night between factional members of the transport union, leaving residents to panic and scamper for safety. Police spokesperson in…

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Lagos prince Adewale Oyekan sentenced to death by hanging

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A murder case which was started 7years ago, involving Adewale Oyekan- a Lagos Prince and son of Late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan has been delivered at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. Oyekan has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a 62-year-old businesswoman and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sikirat Ekun. According to reports, one Lateef Balogun, an ex-domestic staff of the deceased and Adewale Oyekan were sentenced to death for murder on Monday by Justice Raliat Adebiyi for strangling Ekun and throwing her body into a…

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Fidelity Bank wins double awards for Real Sector support

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    Top lender Fidelity Bank Plc, Nigeria’s fastest growing bank has been recognised for its efforts at growing the economy particularly its supporting the real sector   The bank received 2 awards to the effect at the 11th Annual Bankers’ Committee Retreat which held at Ogere, Ogun State at the weekend. The awards were bestowed on the bank for its leadership role in the ongoing efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s agricultural value-chain as well as its staunch  commitment to promoting women economic empowerment. Organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria…

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Oluwo’s 4year-old marriage to Jamaican wife crumbles

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The Oluwo of Iwoland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, and his Jamaican wife, Chanel Chin, have ended their marriage. The marriage between the royal father and the Jamaican produced a son named Oduduwa. Oba Akanbi got married to Chanel Chin, shortly after he ascended the throne of his forefathers in November 10, 2015. A statement by Oluwo’s Press Secretary, Alli Ibrahim, said the couple ended the marriage “after irreconcilable differences.” The statement from Oluwo’s palace reads, in part, “This is to inform the general public, most especially…

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Stallion Nigeria Limited in trouble over N11.4billion debt

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   A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos south west Nigeria has granted an order protecting the  Receiver /Manager appointed by  Guaranty Trust bank Plc Mr Gbenga Akinde- Peters to take over all fixed and floating assets  of Stallion  Nigeria Limited company in receivership,the company  owned by the Vaswani brothers,wherever the assets are found particularly its registered Head office at 270A,Ajose Adeogun Street Victoria Island Lagos. The order of the court was as a result of the company’s inability to pay a debt of N11,401,860,857.06 and $1,969,801.07 The defendants in…

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Inside story of how Minister of State, (Power), Goddy Jedy Agba Saved Nigeria From Total Blackout

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The swift initiative of Minister of State (Power), Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba, in extensively engaging the stakeholders in the Electricity sector, including those from the Ministry of Power, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex Okoh, representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, leadership of NUEE and others, brought the nation wide strike embarked upon by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Wednesday 11th December, 2019 to an end. The workers embarked on the strike action following crisis in the power sector at the…

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Aisha Buhari: The Challenges of A First Lady Defending Good Governance In Nigeria

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By Olalekan Abdullahi Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari is certainly facing an existential battle, despite being the wife of the President of the most populous black country in the world. Her travails are not actually from her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, but from those that surround him, who she strongly believes are trying to make life difficult for her and her children, and she appears to be helpless as her husband does not seem perturbed by what she has been complaining about right in Aso Rock, the seat of…

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ONIRU OBASHIP STOOL: ENOUGH OF LIES

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By Babatunde Olowu. It has become necessary to nip in the bud the vicious lies being shamelessly peddled by certain unscrupulous fellows who have allowed their greed to rob them of their senses. Where good people choose to stay away while untruths are being fed to the people, they (the good people) enable the ground upon which the truth is forever lost, actual history is interred and the lies become the new truths. The desires of certain persons to illegally appropriate the currently vacant stool of Oniru of Iruland has…

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