UBA Mastercard Holders to Win All-expenses-paid Trip to UEFA Champions League finals

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Leading Pan-African Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc in partnership with leading global payments and technology company, Mastercard, will be giving away an all-expenses paid trip- ticket to 12 lucky customers of the bank and their plus ones to watch the Finals of the 2019 UEFA Champions League. Open to all existing and new UBA Platinum Mastercard holders, this amazing giveaway is an opportunity to pamper customers and give them a unique, unforgettable and priceless experience including flights, visas, 5-star accommodation, tickets to watch either the semi-finals or final…

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Buhari’s aide replies Aisha: You don’t have knowledge of SIP

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Maryam Uwais, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on social investment, has defended the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP). Uwais said Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari who criticised SIP, would have been able to find all beneficiaries of the project if she had access to available data. Speaking on Channels Television, the presidential aide said about 290,000 beneficiaries from Adamawa, Aisha’s home state, were being paid under the initiative. An online platform (not Topnews) reports that Buhari’s wife said the programme being coordinated by Uwais failed in the north.…

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I’m leaving N42.5bn for my successor -Okorocha

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Rochas Okorocha, the outgoing Governor of Imo State, on Monday said he would be handing over N42.5bn to his successor, Emeka Ihedioha. He said he decided to keep the money for the incoming governor so that there would not be excuses in carrying out government’s activities. Okorocha spoke while inaugurating 11 new permanent secretaries, including the new Accountant-General and Permanent Secretary, Donald Igbo; and the new Head of Service, Mrs Ngozi Eluma. He said N8.1bn was meant for the payment of salaries and capital projects, while N5.2bn was for pension…

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High Court sacks APC lawmaker-elect in Imo, awards N13.5m to plaintiff

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All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Ugonna Ozuruigbo has been sacked by a federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State as House of Representatives member-elect for Nkwerre/Njaba/Isu/Nwangele Federal Constituency of the state. In suit marked FHC/OW/CS/25/2019 between Harrison Nwadike (plaintiff) and APC, Ozuruigbo and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) (defendants), the court ruled that APC did not conduct primary and should not have fielded any candidate for the poll. Nwadike had sued APC and INEC for submitting Ozurigbo’s name as the party’s candidate, maintaining he was the rightful candidate of…

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Nigerian girls sold for N210,000 as sex slaves in Mali -NAPTIP

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A call has been made by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, to end the practice of Nigerian girls being used as sex slaves in Mali. At a presentation to the ECOWAS Parliament during its First Ordinary Session on Saturday, NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli told members of parliament that Nigerian girls were being sold for between N210,000 and N240,000 to work as prostitutes. Presenting the report of the fact-finding mission to Mali, Okah-Donli said that after being sold, the girls were made to pay back…

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FirstBank Convenes Fireside Chat, Promotes Awareness On Cyber Security

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First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, has announced that, the fourth edition of its Fireside chat would hold on Friday, 31 May 2019 at its Digital Innovation Lab in Yaba, Lagos. The topic, Cyber Security in Digital Payments, would be delivered by Dr. Obadare Peter Adewale, Co-Founder of Digital Encode, who is the guest speaker at the event. The FirstBank Fireside Chat had its inaugural edition in 2018 with Tosin Eniolorunda, Founder, TeamApt Limited, and subsequently with Ope Adeoye, Managing Partner, 2iLabs, and Bunmi Akinyemiju, Managing Director, Venture…

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Man sentenced to death for killing employer’s mother

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A Beninese domestic help, Christian Yavine has been sentenced to death by Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, for killing his employer’s 78-year-old mother, Mariam Abiola. The judge found 23-year-old Yavine guilty of severing Abiola’s head with a knife while she slept in her daughter’s residence in the Ipaja area of Lagos on July 1, 2014. It was gathered that the convict’s employer, Ajoke Abiola, had gone to a vigil in a church when the incident happened. Delivering her judgment on Monday, Justice Ipaye, who…

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How GT Bank’s CEO, Segun Agbaje is building a great African institution through digital transformation

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When is a bank not a bank? That is a question Segun Agbaje, the multiple award-winning CEO and Managing Director of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has been getting to grips with as he forges a new path for banking in Africa. Agbaje was always destined to become a banker, it seems, although he took a circuitous route. Initially, he qualified as an accountant and practised in the US before tiring of auditing and returning to Nigeria to follow his father’s footsteps into banking. There, in 1991, he joined an…

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Rochas Okorocha: I Am Leaving N42.5b In Imo Coffers

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Outgoing Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha on Monday disclosed he has kept N42.5 billion in the coffers of the state for his successor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha. Okorocha stated he decided to keep such amount for the in-coming governor so that there won’t be excuses in carrying out activities of the government. The governor, who made the disclosure while swearing-in eleven Permanent Secretaries as well as the new Accountant-Genera, Deacon Donald Igbo and the new Head of Service Mrs. Ngozi Ama Eluma, explained that N8.1billion of the money was meant for…

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Study reveals world’s rivers are loaded with antibiotics waste

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According to research unveiled at a conference on Monday, rivers worldwide are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times. Scientists found one or more common antibiotics in two-thirds of 711 samples taken from rivers in 72 countries, they told a meeting of environmental toxicologists in Helsinki. In dozens of locations, concentrations of the drugs — used to fight off bacterial infection in people and livestock — exceeded safety levels set by the AMR Industry Alliance, a grouping of more than 100 biotech and pharmaceutical…

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