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Access Bank Acquires Diamond Bank In Merger Deal

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Access Bank PLC have recently acquired Diamond Bank PLC in a recent merger deal. According to a statement released by Diamond Bank, the merger aims to serve as a tool for enhanced banking in the country. “We are delighted to announce that the Board of Diamond Bank has selected Access Bank as the preferred bidder with respect to a potential merger of the two banks that will create Nigeria and Africa’s largest retail bank by customers. The Board of Diamond Bank believes that the merger is in the best interest…

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Facebook Temporarily Bans Israeli PM’s Son Over Posts

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A son of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Facebook blocked him for 24 hours amid a spat over several posts railing against Palestinians and Muslims. Last week, Facebook removed a post by Yair Netanyahu in which he called for “avenging the deaths” of two Israeli soldiers killed by a Palestinian. A post in which the 27-year-old said he would prefer if “all Muslims leave the land of Israel” was also taken down. He called Facebook “thought police”. But it accused him of hate speech. Mr Netanyahu drew widespread criticism last…

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Pastor buys $200,000 Lamborghini car for wife as wedding anniversary gift

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Pastor John Gray, the pastor of a megachurch in South Carolina, United States has defended buying a $200,000 Lamborghini luxury car as gift for his wife on their eighth wedding anniversary. Pastor Gray captured headlines over the weekend after an Instagram video taken of the moment he handed his wife the keys to the bow-wrapped “Lamborghini Urus” on Saturday went viral. Gray, who is the pastor of Relentless Church, later stressed online that he had purchased the vehicle for his wife, while rebutting critics who raised suggestions about whether he…

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2019: Court sacks Donald Duke, declares Jerry Gana SDP flag- bearer

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A former minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, was yesterday declared winner of the presidential primary election of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) conducted on October 6, 2018, by An FCT High Court in Maitama. The party had declared a former governor of Cross River, Mr. Donald Duke, winner of the election and its flag-bearer for next year’s general elections after it said he (Duke) polled 812 votes, while Gana had 611. However, Gana went to court, seeking that he be declared winner in line with the zoning and rotation…

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CAN dissolves elders’ forum, ends probe into N40m Buhari transport fare

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After a panel set up by the National Executive Committee of the Christian Association of Nigeria concluded an investigation into allegations of misconduct leveled against the CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, the committee has dissolved the Nigerian Christian Elders Forum . The elders forum had in a memo titled ‘NCEF Protests: Is NEC of CAN Guilty of Negligence?’ in May, alleged that when Ayokunle led a delegation to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on November 10, 2017, the leadership of CAN received N40m as “transportation money.” However, the CAN executive committee,…

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Fuel crisis imminent until subsidy is removed – Kachikwu

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Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for petroleum Resources, Thursday, stated that until the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry is liberalized and subsidy of petroleum products removed, the country would continue to struggle and face challenges in terms of ensuring stable fuel supply. Speaking in Abuja, at the presentation of the key achievements of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in three years, 2016 to 2018 and award to staff of the ministry, Kachikwu, argued that to address fuel supply challenges, the country needed to find a way…

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Undergraduate stabs boyfriend to death

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An undergraduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Abiodun Olabisi, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Lekan Adegun, to death. The victim, a graduate of the Department of Transport Management of the same institution, was waiting for his call-up letter for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps programme before the incident happened. The state Police Commissioner, Abiodun Odude, who paraded the suspects in Ibadan, said the incident happened following a quarrel between the two as a result of petty jealousy. According…

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Credible elections doubtful unless Buhari sign Electoral Bill – Atiku

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In the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has cast doubt over the possibility of having free, fair and credible elections in 2019. The former Vice President made the remark yesterday at the Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Centre, Abuja, where he signed the peace accord to commit himself to peaceful elections in 2019. Atiku failed to turn up at the International Conference Centre on Tuesday where President Muhammadu Buhari and…

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Lagos police counters Sogunle, says Have sex in car, go to jail

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The Lagos State Police, through it’s spokesperson, Chike Oti, has described as misplaced a tweet credited to the head of the Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit, Abayomi Sogunle, that having sex in a car is not a criminal offence. Oti said it was an indecent act to have sex in a car in a public place not only in Lagos, but in the entire country. He said lovers who engaged in sexual activities in vehicles parked in public places, under Lagos laws, were liable to between two and three years’…

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Kenya Coins Replace Leaders with Animals

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Kenya has dropped the images of presidents from newly minted cash coins, in what is seen as an attempt to prevent their glorification. Previous coins bore the images of Kenya’s three ex-rulers: Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki. Many Kenyans saw this as an attempt by their leaders to promote themselves, and to personalise the state. The new ones have images of the country’s famous wildlife, including lions, elephants, giraffes and rhinos. President Uhuru Kenyatta – the son of Kenya’s first leader Jomo Kenyatta – said the new…

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