Nigeria Bankers Games: Wema Bank tops with 22 record-breaking medals

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Wema Bank, one of Nigeria’s most innovative banks, emerged the overall winner in the just concluded 2022 edition of the Nigeria Bankers Games with a record-breaking 22 medals. At the end of the games, reputed as the most prestigious sporting competition in the Nigerian banking industry, the bank stood at the top of the medals table having garnered a total of ten gold, seven silver and five bronze medals. The organizers of the sports fiesta, Media Vision Limited, Nigeria’s leading sports marketing and activation company, in a letter to the…

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Sterling Bank Sponsors Training For 1,000 youths

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Sterling Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has partnered with Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP) to sponsor 1,000 fellows during this year’s training programme. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of Sterling Bank Plc, Mr. Abubakar Suleiman said, at the launch of the programme in Lagos, that the bank is supporting NJFP because of its interest in the education sector as one of five sectors it is presently concentrating investments in under its HEARTs of Sterling programme. The other sectors are Health, Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Transportation. The Nigeria…

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Adeleke fires 12,000 workers first day in office; puts appointment of 3 obas on hold

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Ademola Adeleke, the new Osun State Governor, has dethroned three monarchs enthroned recently by his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola yesterday, in his first 24 hours in office. Adeleke suspended the chairman and members of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSIEC; and sacked via executive orders, no fewer than 12,000 workers recently employed by Oyetola. The new governor also ran into a disagreement with the state legislators, on the legality of his executive orders over laws passed by the House, even as hoodlums unleashed mayhem in Osogbo, attacking motor parks, forcing…

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It’s doubtful herders wilfully destroy farms —Agric Minister

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The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar has said it was unsure herders intentionally unleash their cattler on farms, despite frequent invasion of farms and killings of farmers in different parts of the country, especially in South East and Benue State, by armed herdsmen. The Minister who stated this while responding to questions at the presentation of his ministry’s scorecard for 2015-2023, also blamed the rising cost of basic foodstuff in the country on inflaton and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic which forced many countries, including Nigeria to shut down…

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Aisha Buhari ordered the arrest of our undergraduate son over Twitter post -Uncle

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Aminu Adamu, an undergraduate of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, who was arrested by security operatives comprising the police and men of the Department of State Service, over a post on Twitter alleging that the wife of the President Buhari, Aisha was feeding fat on poor people’s money is yet to be released. In an interview with Shehu Azare, (Aminu’s uncle) published by BBC Hausa on Monday, he said the victim’s father, Mallam Adamu was not aware of his arrest until about five days later, when his friends told…

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Saudi-bound man arrested with cocaine concealed in sandals

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A 56-year-old cocaine trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, who was on a mission to deliver 400grams of the class A drug concealed in a pair of palm sandals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday. The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, also said a wanted notorious kingpin, Wasiu Gbolahan, aka Teacher, who recruits mules for the cartel, was also arrested. Babafemi said, “The NDLEA operatives attached to the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, had on Thursday,…

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FG identifies 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram

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Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, said weekend that the federal government has identified 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram. According to him, the financiers have links to at least 10 countries of the world. Aregbesola made the disclosure at the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, with the theme, “No Money for Terror”, which took place in India. The minister, who disclosed this in a statement by his aide, Abdulmalik Suleiman, yesterday, said: “The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, has played a significant role, in supporting all our intelligence, security,…

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Three killed in two schools shootings in Brazil

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A 16-year-old shooter wearing Nazi symbols opened fire on two schools in southeastern Brazil on Friday, killing at least three people, including an adolescent girl, while 11 others were wounded, officials said. Authorities in the city of Aracruz, in Espirito Santo state, said the shooter fired on a group of teachers at his former school, killing two people and leaving nine others wounded. He then left that school — a public primary and secondary school — and went to a nearby private school where he killed an adolescent girl and…

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Crown Prince of Saudi promises players Rolls Royce for Argentina win

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Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, has promised each player in the national team a Rolls Royce Phantom for their win against Argentina in their World Cup opener in Qatar. A resilient Saudi Arabian side on Tuesday shockingly defeated the Copa America winners 2-1 with all odds against them. It is not the first time that a Rolls Royce would be awarded to a Saudi Arabian player. In the 1994 tournament Saeed Al-Owairan receiving one of the luxury cars after scoring the winning goal in…

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Popular gospel singer, Sammie Okposo is dead

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Popular gospel artist and music producer, Sammie Okposo is dead. He was said to have died on Friday morning. He was aged 51. Although, unverified sources stated on social media that the singer slumped before he was pronounced dead, but no official statement has been issued by his family. The “Wellu Wellu” crooner was the CEO of Zamar Entertainment. He was one of the leading soundtrack producers in Nollywood, a career he started in 1992. The Niger Delta-born music star who released his first album Unconditional Love(with the hit song…

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