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Ecobank unveils Africa’s first unified digital payment solution

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A multi-featured digital payment solution, Ecobank Pay, is now available from Ecobank Nigeria. Ecobank Pay is built as a core part of Ecobank’s digital financial services ecosystem approach and will deliver unified and instant self-service across a range of interconnected payment solutions. It can be used by all businesses from small informal micro merchants to large corporates as well as governments, allowing them to offer easy and convenient payment options to their customers in-store or online. Ecobank Pay includes a rebrand of the Ecobank Scan+Pay QR offering, which allows customers…

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Season 7 of The GTBank Masters Cup Enters Quarter Final Stage

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The quarter finals of the 2018 GTBank Masters Cup is set to hold on May 8-9, 2018 at the Agege Stadium, Lagos with 16 male and female teams competing for a semi-final spot in the prestigious tournament. Organized by leading African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, the GTBank Masters Cup is an annual football competition for first generation and missionary secondary schools geared towards discovering young football talents and inculcating in young people, the values of sportsmanship, camaraderie and fair play. Season 7 of the competition kicked off with…

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EPL Tougher Than La Liga, Bundesliga- Pep Guardiola

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Winning the league is harder to do in England than in Spain and Germany, says Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. City were presented with the Premier League trophy after Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Huddersfield at Etihad Stadium. This is Guardiola’s first league title since joining City in the summer of 2016, having previously won three with both Barcelona and Bayern Munich. “Here, it is more difficult,” said the Spaniard. “In England, it’s special because it’s so tough.” Guardiola, 47, won La Liga six times while playing for Barcelona, then led…

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Bale Stunner Secures Point For Madrid In El Classico

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Gareth Bale hit a sublime equaliser for Real Madrid against champions Barcelona, who survived playing with 10 men for 45 minutes to move to within three games of going the entire La Liga season undefeated. Sergi Roberto was shown a straight red card with the score 1-1 at the end of the first half of an ill-tempered El Clasico after he appeared to slap Real defender Marcelo. Roberto had earlier provided the cross for an unmarked Luis Suarez to fire the hosts into the lead before Cristiano Ronaldo bundled the…

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Man arrested for stealing over 1,200 phones from commuters

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Femi Solomon, a phone bandit arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State police command has confessed that he has stolen over 1,200 phones from commuters since he joined a pickpocket gang. The suspect from Ogun State, was arrested last Thursday by RRS operatives at Iyana Oworo, Lagos, after stealing a phone from a commuter in a bus stampede at the bus-stop. Solomon, an auto technician, noted that he joined a pickpocket gang in Obalende, where he was ushering people to buy used cloth popularly…

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Giraffe Headbutts And Kills Filmmaker

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A film-maker was horrifically killed after his skull was crushed by a bull giraffe in an attack at the safari park used to film ITV’s popular Wild at Heart series. Carlos Carvalho had worked on most of the series of the hit family drama that featured a British family building up an animal hospital in the South African bush. But the 47-year-old was sent flying 16 feet through the air while working on a feature film with Gerald the Giraffe after the animal headbutted him, causing devastating head injuries. He…

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My Second Term Bid Not For Personal Gains – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in Daura, Katsina State, said the driving force for seeking public office should be to serve the people, and see their lives improved, not for frivolity or personal ambition. Speaking at the All Progressives Party’s (APC) Ward Congress held at Bayagida Model Primary School, President Buhari said the passion to serve and see real changes in the lives of Nigerians informed his choice to join partisan politics in the first place, and inspired him to contest elections in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. The President said…

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Ban On Codeine: Lagos Unveils Comprehensive Strategy To Address Mental Health

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The Lagos State Government on Friday said comprehensive plans are currently being firmed up to generally address prevalence of drug abuse under the mental health policy in the State, revealing that a law to that effect has already been updated. The Federal Government had on Tuesday directed the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to stop further issuance of permits for the importation of Codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations with immediate effect in response to the gross abuse of Codeine usage in the country.…

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Nigerian Artistes Don’t Deserve A Grammy – Hiptv CEO, Ayo Animashaun

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HipTV CEO and the organizer of the popular Headies awards, Ayo Animashaun, has made a statement on the Grammy Awards and according to him, Nigerians artistes don’t deserve to win the popular Award show in America. According to him, “I really don’t understand why Nigerians want to win the Grammys. Grammys are not for us, but for Americans. We should get that right. They put everybody in one world music category. We are not their focus. It is not for us. Yes, we can win awards, but they do not…

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“If Anything Happens To Dino Melaye” – Dogara Warns Police

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has urged the police to prioritize the health and safety of Sen. Dino Melaye before prosecution. Dogara made the call at the plenary on Thursday in Abuja after a personal explanation was raised by Rep. Sunday Karimi (Kogi-PDP) drawing the attention of the House to Dino’s plight. The senator is currently facing a seven-count charge of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms in Kogi State. The helmsman of the green chambers, however, said that anyone who committed any offence…

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