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Fidelity Bank Seeks Better Data Sharing In Retail Growth

Oct 13, 2019 topnews

The Executive Director, Operations and Information, Fidelity Bank Plc, Gbolahan Joshua has advised data validation agencies and organisations to adopt appropriate policies that provide financial institutions with the required flexibility to utilise available customer data. Joshua who gave the counsel during a panel session at the 10th anniversary celebration of Verve in Lagos recently, explained that this would assist banks in the country drive new levels of customer engagements across digital channels and systems. He harped on the need for data generating institutions in Nigeria to explore fresh ways to collaborate with…

How Ogun Transport Committee Deceived Governor Dapo Abiodun +Their Many Lies, Fraud

Oct 9, 2019 topnews

After the exposition by the media on the interference and usurpation of duties of transport unions in Ogun State, which we gathered has been causing disaffections among the members of the unions, the 13-man Governor Dapo Abiodun’s Committee on Transportation led by Barrister Sunday Olufemi Adeniyi has come out to deny any wrongdoing, maintaining that it had nothing to do with the activities of the unions since they were suspended by the government in June this year. In an unsigned press statement replete with inconsistencies and attempt to mislead members…

N4.2billion debt: AMCON seeks judgement against Al Kahf Resources owner, Badamasi Sheu

Oct 8, 2019 topnews

Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has filed an application before a Federal High Court in Lagos, urging the court to enter judgement in its favour in the sum of N4,282,918,018.43, against a businessman, Alhaji Badamasi Sheu and his company, Al Kahf Resources Limited. In an affidavit in support of an application for summary judgement sworn to by a supervisor with AMCON- Mr. David George, and filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer, Barrister Asama Kadiri, the deponent alleged that sometimes in 2006 Al Kahf Resources Limited approached Oceanic Bank…

Sex-for-grades scandal rocks UNILAG

Oct 8, 2019 topnews

Due to the escapades of randy some lecturers, Nigerian universities caught global attention yesterday. The focus on the nation’s universities was triggered by yesterday’s release by BBC African Eye, of a video allegedly showing academics propositioning undercover female reporters. Wearing a secret camera, a reporter, Kiki Mordi, had allegedly visited Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu, a lecturer of the Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (UNILAG), posing as a 17-year-old admission seeker. The clip went on to show the lecturer allegedly making sexual overtures to…

US$11m fraud: Obinwanne Okeke to forfeit N280m

Oct 8, 2019Oct 8, 2019 topnews

After his arrest on August 6, 2019 at Dulles, Virginia in the United States of America by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Obinwanne Okeke a.k.a Invictus Obi is again facing another battle as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture to the Federal Government of the sum of N280,555,010 linked to him. The ruling by Justice Rilwan Aikawa came after an ex-parte application filed on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Okeke after the said amount was traced to…

Buhari presents 2020 budget to National Assembly today

Oct 8, 2019 topnews

Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari, will today present an appropriation bill of N10.729 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year before a joint session of the National Assembly. It was learnt that the extraordinary Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday sanctioned the adjustments made by the National Assembly to the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF-SP) which reviewed upward the earlier N9.12 trillion estimates. The gathering, originally billed for last Saturday when the president returned from his state visit to South Africa, was shifted…

South African returnee confesses: I robbed a laptop dealer with toy gun

Oct 7, 2019 topnews

A suspect named Victor Remi is singing like a bird after his arrest by operatives of the Rapid Respond Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, for robbing a computer dealer of three Apple laptops worth N1.5m. Remi, a South African returnee and his accomplice, Ekeh Maxwell, a musician were said to have disguised as buyers to dispossess computer dealer of his laptops using gun and knife. The suspects got the contact of their victim on Twitter, sent a message to him and requested two Apple MacBook Pro – 2018 edition…

Diaby Fadiga reveal reasons he stole £62,000 watch

Oct 4, 2019 topnews

Lamine Diaby-Fadiga has cited ‘jealousy’ as his reasons for taking Nice striker Kasper Dolberg’s watch last month. Dolberg had a £62,000 watch stolen from his team’s dressing room on September 16 and took his complaint to the police. It emerged that Diaby was in fact the thief with the 18-year-old subsequently sacked by the Ligue 1 club on Tuesday. “After several days of an unprecedented media storm for me, I have decided to give myself a voice via communication,” Diaby tweeted. “I would like to first of all apologise to…

Ex Bauchi governors Yuguda, Abubakar indicted of gross mismanagement

Oct 4, 2019 topnews

Former governors of Bauchi State Isa Yuguda and Mohammad Abubakar have been indicted of “gross mismanagement and fraud” by the 21-man panel of inquiry set up by Bauchi State Governor, Bala Muhammed to investigate the two previous administrations. The committee disclosed after its three-month findings, alleging that Abubakar sold seven exotic vehicles to himself, while his aides carted away about 30 official cars. It said yesterday that it also investigated Yuguda’s administration between May 2007 and May 2015, adding that Abubakar’s administration from May 2015 to 2019 has a lot…

GAIM Season 4 -Fidelity Bank Promotes savings Culture

Oct 4, 2019 topnews

One of Nigeria’s top lender, Fidelity Bank Plc, on Thursday announced the introduction of a new savings campaign in Lagos, as part of concerted efforts to promote the culture of savings amongst Nigerians. The Savings campaign which will ride primarily on digital technologies is one of the many initiatives of the bank aimed at rewarding new and existing customers for their unwavering loyalty and patronage. Dubbed “Get Alert In Millions (GAIM) Season 4”, the savings promo is expected to run till April 2020, a duration of six months and…