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FBN promotes financial literacy in schools in celebration of World savings day

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First Bank of Nigeria Limited and FBNQuest Merchant Bank, both subsidiaries of FBNHoldings Plc, joined the rest of the world on October 31, 2018 to mark the 2018 World Savings Day by visiting 30 secondary schools and more than 1000 students across the country to impart them with knowledge of financial literacy nuggets. The World Savings Day is in line with FirstBank’s FutureFirst programme, specially designed to equip students with the knowledge of money management, early entrepreneurship skills, and financial independence whilst stimulating in them savings culture at an early age. Also,…

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Police reveal how cook killed Credit Switch chairman

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Police investigation into the murder of the late Chairman of Credit Switch Technology, Opeyemi Bademosi, has revealed that his cook and prime suspect, Sunday Anani, allegedly stabbed his boss to death in his room at his Parkview Estate residence, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, in a statement on Sunday, said Anani, single-handedly stabbed his boss to death with a kitchen knife, while attempting to rob him. Oti stated that the 22-year-old suspect, who took advantage of his boss…

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Boko Haram On Robbery Spree In Maiduguri

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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Sunday said Boko Haram insurgents came on a robbery mission on Saturday night at Bale Shuwa village in Jere Local government of Borno state and made away with cows, sheep and goats. Alhaji Bashir Garga, NEMA’s Northeast Zonal Coordinator, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri. Garga said: “Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked Bale-Shuwa village in Jere Local Government Area at about 7:30 pm on Saturday. “One disabled person was allegedly killed and 65 houses were burnt, while 200 cows, 300 sheep…

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Ekiti To Become Nation’s Food Basket, Says Fayemi

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Governor Kayode Fayemi has said his administration’s plan to focus on agriculture and rural development is to reposition Ekiti State as a food basket for the country. The governor, who said that farming remained the number one pre-occupation of Ekiti people, said his government would partner with the farmers and some private organisations to boost food production through agric business. Minister commends ongoing facilities upgrading at FMC Ebute Metta According to him, Ekiti has the capacity to become the food basket not only for the region for the country at…

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Oshiomhole admits seeing DSS

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At a meeting with editors in Lagos, Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , debunked claims that he was arrested, detained and granted administrative bail by the Department of State Services (DSS), after a nine-hour marathon interrogation. Oshiomhole’s return from the United Kingdom was after he visited his wife, Iara, in the United States, and subsequently having audience with the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the United Kingdom. The APC chairman’s sudden departure was after his reported interrogation…

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Peter Obi to El-Rufai: Stop hate speech

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Peter Obi, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Saturday urged Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to stop making inflammatory statements capable of inciting hate among Nigerians. Obi was reacting to a statement credited to El-Rufai in his (El Rufai’s) twitter handle, where he called Obi ‘a tribal bigot.’ The governor tweeted that Obi stopped him from moving around Anambra State during the governorship election in the state in 2010. But Obi while speaking with journalists on the matter at a youth programme in Nnewi, Anambra State, on…

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Revenue Collection Hits N4.3trillion, Says FIRS

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Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, yesterday disclosed that it had recorded a remarkable performance in terms of revenue collection this year, adding that, as at October 31st, it recorded a collection of N4.3trillion. Speaking at the FIRS special day at the ongoing Lagos International Trade Fair, the Executive Chairman, Babatunde Fowler said the service had the potential to meet its assigned target at the end of the year. “We realize that this performance wouldn’t have been possible but for the present administration’s policies of expanding the nation’s tax base and…

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Arabic teacher defiles five year-old girl in Gombe

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Bilyaminu Halilu, a 26 year old Quranic teacher has been arrested by police in Gombe State, for allegedly raping a five year old girl who is his student. Halilu was a teacher at Raudatul Quranic Primary and Secondary School by-pass Gombe. The Commissioner of Police in Gombe State, Mohammed Mukaddas, told newsmen in Gombe on Friday that the suspect was arrested on November 1. According to him, the suspect took the girl to his office laid her on the table and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her. He said the…

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CPC warns consumers to Beware of contaminated beans

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In a statement released by its Director-General, Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Consumer Protection Council on Friday advised consumers to beware of contaminated beans currently being sold in some markets. It called on consumers to properly wash their beans before consumption as well as make sufficient enquiries before engaging in new purchases. The warning came on the heels of a video that had gone viral where some people were seen using sniper to preserve beans. The Council said in addition to the cooking method and making enough enquiries before purchase, consumers…

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I Have No Hands In Oshiomhole’s Travails – Amosun

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Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has denied any knowledge of the alleged grilling of the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole by the Department of State Security, DSS, in Abuja. It was reported that the nation’s police undercover had quizzed the National APC Chairman on Sunday over allegation of corruption when he was governor of Edo State as well as allegedly collecting graft during the party’s primaries to favour some aspirants. Governor Amosun and his colleague from Imo State, Rochas Okorocha were mentioned as the “behind…

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