Category: News

Access Bank excites investors, records N115bn Profit

topnews

The successful merger of Access Bank Plc with former Diamond Bank Plc has continued to yield positive results with the improved performance recorded in the year ended December 31, 2019. The merger process concluded in April last year and going by the audited results, shareholders of Access Bank Plc are getting a better deal. The bank posted gross earnings of N576.348 billion, showing an increase of 32 per cent, from the N435.743 billion recorded in 2018. Net interest income increased jumped 59 per cent from N173.578 billion to N277.228 billion…

Read More

Emir of Kano dethroned

topnews

The Kano State Government has announced the sacking of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II. The Director-General, Media and Communications, Kano State Government, Salihu Yakasai, said this on his official Twitter handle, @Dawisu, on Monday. “The Kano State Executive Council has unanimously approved the dethronement of the Emir of Kano Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II at a special sitting held today by the council,” he tweeted. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, in a statement on Monday added, “This removal is made after due consultation with the…

Read More

Buhari’s government is the worst — Oyedepo

topnews

Bishop David Oyedepo, the Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel, has described the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as the worst in the history of Nigeria. Oyedepo said this on Sunday while delivering a sermon during the second service of the church at the Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State. He said the hate speech bill being sponsored by Senator Sabi Abdullahi was the most ridiculous bill anyone could think of. The cleric said while the government was seeking to criminalise…

Read More

Keystone Bank building collapses, kills labourer

topnews

A storey building, reportedly belonging to Keystone Bank collapsed at Palmgrove area of Lagos State. The structure which was under renovation, caved in at 07.20 pm and trapped labourers working at the site. In fact, one of the labourers was said to have lost his life in the process. Confirming the incident, the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said efforts were ongoing to rescue the remaining victims, adding that emergency responders, including officials of the Lagos State Fire Service, men of the Nigeria Police Force, among…

Read More

Chief Magistrate jailed for stealing N22million

topnews

Former deputy chief registrar of the Oyo State High Court, Mutiat Omobola Adio, who is also a chief magistrate in the state, has been caught by the same law she represents. Adio was found guilty on a one-count charge of stealing in a case preferred against her by the Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday. The convict was accused of stealing a sum of N22, 375,913 from Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, an offence that runs contrary to Section 390(11) of Criminal Code, Cap.38, Law of…

Read More

Lagos-Ibadan rail suspended due to coronavirus outbreak -Amaechi

topnews

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the ongoing construction work on the Lagos-Ibadan rail project has been put on hold, the Federal Government declared on Thursday. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this during a live television programme on African Independent Television monitored in Abuja. The minister said the employees of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, the contractor handling the project, were still in China on the orders of the government of the Asian nation. He said, “If not for coronavirus we would have finished the Lagos-Ibadan rail,…

Read More

Kano high court upturns Oshiomhole’s suspension

topnews

The suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as a member of the All Progressives Congress, has been voided by Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa, sitting at the Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday. He also held that the Independent National Electoral Commission should not recognise anybody, except Oshiomhole, as the APC national chairman. Justice Lewis-Allagoa’s ruling came a day after Justice Danlami Senchi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Jabi, made an order suspending Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the APC. Justice Senchi had premised his order suspending Oshiomhole…

Read More

Monarch’s wife raped as bandits attack Benue community again

topnews

Bandits suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Thursday attacked the Mbanyiar community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and raped three women including the district head’s wife. According to a native of the community, who simply identified himself as Terka, the suspected herdsmen headed straight to the residence of the community head and attacked the household. The herdsmen allegedly raped the traditional ruler’s wife and two of his in-laws and destroyed crops stored in the barn. Confirming the attack on his community, the…

Read More

Court suspends Oshiomole as APC national chairman

topnews

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Jabi, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered an interim suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress. Delivering a ruling on an application for interlocutory injunction, Justice Danlami Senchi said his order would subsist pending the determination of the main suit bordering on his suspension as a member of the party. The order, which was given at 11pm,  triggered a renewed battle for the control of the party by members loyal to Oshiomhole and governors, who were opposed to…

Read More

Coronavirus: Ogun government deploy security officials to man Chinese residences’ gates

topnews

Ogun State Government has said it has deployed security officials to man the entrances to the areas where a large number of Chinese live in the state. The Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Communications, Remmy Hazzan, said this on Wednesday. Hassan said the state government adopted the strategy to ensure that the self-isolation of these nationals were effective. He added that the action was to stop the possibility of any of them manifesting coronavirus symptoms without being noticed by the relevant authorities. He said, “What we have done is…

Read More