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Petit: Messi Is Not A Leader Like CR7

Jun 23, 2018 topnews

Lionel Messi does not have the same leadership qualities as Cristiano Ronaldo, according to former Barcelona player Emmanuel Petit. “He’s not a leader. He’s no Ronaldo in that regard. Messi is one of the best players ever, but he needs to show that mentality,” Petit said. “He needs to wake up! When things go well with Barcelona he’s a terrific player. We’ve seen it in the Champions League though, when things don’t go well, he can disappear on the pitch. He’s not there anymore. He’s not running, he’s walking. He’s…

Soyinka To Expose Obasanjo, The ‘Most Hypocritical’ Former Leader In Nigeria

Jun 23, 2018 topnews

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of being the most hypocritical former leader of the country, following his attempt to hijack the movement for political change. He stated this in Abuja on Friday at a dinner organised by the International Press Institute. “Obasanjo has crossed the red line and I will launch a publication to expose him on July 3 at Freedom Park in Lagos,” Soyinka stated. He is trying to hijack a recovery process he is least worthy to lead. According Soyinka, Obasanjo is…

Kidnappers of NNPC staff confesses on how he was abducted and died in their custody

Jun 23, 2018 topnews

Kidnappers of John Iheanacho, a 53-year-old who was attacked by a gang of kidnappers who opened fire on him, after they accosted him at the entrance of his residence, at DPO Avenue, off Rehabilitation Center, Iriebe Port Harcourt have confessed on how the crime was carried out. While John was still bleeding profusely, his kidnappers bundled him into their operational vehicle and took him to an Island off Umuosi Community in Afam area of Oyingbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. He was held in captivity for nine days without…

Davido, Don Jazzy, Psquare lead entertainers in celebrating Nigeria’s win

Jun 22, 2018 topnews

The entertainment world were not left out of the party after the Super Eagles’ heroics at the Volgograd Arena Top Nigerian entertainers including Davido, Don Jazzy, AY and Alibaba have taken to social media to celebrate Nigeria’s first victory at the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia. Ahmed Musa scored two goals in the second half to give Gernot Rohr’s charges a 2-0 win over Iceland in their second Group D fixture on Friday. The victory fired them to the second spot in the group behind Croatia and on the…

NAFDAC consultants sacked over anomalies, irregularities

Jun 22, 2018 topnews

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of NAFDAC, has revoked the appointments of NAFDAC consultants over allegations of anomalies and irregularities. In a statement made available today in Abuja, prof. Adeyeye noted that the activities of the consultants were detrimental to the Federal Government’s ease of doing business policy. “The operations of the NAFDAC Appointed Consultants in recent times have been fraught with a lot of challenges and irregularities, which militated against the very purpose of their appointment i.e. easing regulatory business of the industry with NAFDAC. “NAFDAC, in this new dispensation…

Decade Old Story Wins GTBank’s Dusty Manuscript Contest

Jun 21, 2018 topnews

A manuscript written almost ten years ago has been selected as the winner of the Dusty Manuscript Contest; a Prize organized for budding Nigerian writers. Written by Kukogho Iruesiri Samson, the winning manuscript, titled Devil’s Pawn clinched the top prize ahead of The Orchid Protocol by Onoche Emeka Onyekwena and The Other Side of Truth by Nneoma Anieto, which came first and second runner-up respectively. Organized in partnership with Kachifo Ltd. and Okadabooks, the Dusty Manuscript Contest is the latest in a long line of GTBank’s YouREAD initiatives aimed at…

Budget will be difficult to implement— Buhari

Jun 21, 2018 topnews

The N9.12 trillion 2018 Appropriation Bill has been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President lamented that it would be difficult to implement because the budget figures have been tampered with by the National Assembly. The President accused the National Assembly of cutting N347 billion from 4,700 critical projects and injecting 403 unnecessary projects at the cost of N578 billion, stressing that the proposals introduced by the lawmakers were neither properly conceptualized, designed nor costed. President Buhari noted that the projects were supposed to be carried out by…

Prof sacked over sex-for-mark scandal

Jun 21, 2018 topnews

Prof. Richard Akindele, who was accused of demanding sex to upgrade the mark of a female postgraduate student, Monica Osagie, has been dismissed by the Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. Osagie was a postgraduate student in the Department of Management and Accounting and was said to have completed her programme in 2018. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, announced the verdict of the council at a press conference at the university on Wednesday. The council, led by its Chairman, Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, had held…

Fidelity Bank launches New Payment Solution

Jun 21, 2018 topnews

Fidelity Bank Plc has announced the launch of a payment solution designed primarily to allow customers send money and pay bills using their phone keyboards without recourse to the online banking platform installed on their mobile devices. The solution known as ‘Flashkey,’ according to the bank, was a ground-breaking initiative, a first of its kind in the Nigerian banking industry. It explained that the solution was designed to enable customers and members of the banking public initiate payments and effect transfers using their phone keyboard in an easy and convenient…

Atiku to Jonathan: History will be fair to you as a core democrat

Jun 20, 2018 topnews

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has described former President Goodlcuk Jonathan as a hero of democracy in Nigeria. The former Vice President made the assertion on Wednesday during a courtesy call on President Jonathan at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. Atiku Abubakar, who recalled Jonathan’s exemplary decision to hand over the reins of power without qualms, observed that that singular historic decision set him apart as a democrat of unimpeachable credentials. Atiku, while reflecting on Jonathan’s action that doused tension in the country at that time,…