Day: 16 October 2019

Davido dazzles Zlatan Ibile, Skibii, others with expensive jewelleries

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Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer, David Adedeji Adeleke aka Davido, has deposited the sum of $100K (N36m) to purchase customised jewellery for Zlatan Ibile, Skibii and seven other members of his 30BG (30billion gang) The singer rewarded the Nigerian rapper, songwriter and dancer Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael aka Zlatan Ibile, who is also in the United States of America with a customized neck chain and 30 BG pendant. Zlatan got his gift from Davido after he attended the 40th birthday of the singer’s big brother and also met his dad,…

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FirstBank hosts FINTECH summit 3.0

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Nigeria’s premier and leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited hosted the third edition of its annual Fintech summit themed “Banking + Tech = Solving Real Problems”. The event held on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 in Lagos with a conference and panel sessions comprising tech experts, start-ups, regulators and other stakeholders to deliberate pressing issues, trends and upgrades in the application of technology in the financial services industry. Victor Asemota, Founder, Swifta Systems & Services was the Keynote Speaker at the event. With the evolution that has taken…

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Witness tells court how JAMB official replaced N20m cash with cardboards

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A prosecution witness, Karimatu Abubakar has narrated to Justice Peter Affen of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Abuja, how Aliyu Yakubu, a former Revenue Officer with the Kano State zonal office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, siphoned N20million belonging to JAMB by replacing it with cut-to-size cardboards. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Yakubu on eight counts bordering on criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds and money laundering to the tune of N20m. At the resumed trial on Tuesday, Abubakar, who is…

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PDP chides Buhari over N5,000 National ID card levy

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The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday said the decision of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration to “further squeeze Nigerians” by imposing a N5,000 fee for national identity card is “repressive.” The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said it rejected the decision. Ologbondiyan stated that the idea of the ID Card fee by the Buhari administration was “insupportable, reprehensible and completely offensive to the sensibilities of Nigerians as free citizens.” According to him, imposing “such unwarranted levy” on Nigerians for internal…

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Buhari reduces foreign trips, cuts estacodes for ministers, others

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President Muhammadu Buhari has reduced the number and duration of foreign trips for ministers and other categories of government officials in a move described as ‘cost-saving measure’ to achieve fiscal prudence. In a statement signed by the Director of Information at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, the President also removed travel allowances known as estacode; while he also cut down the number of persons permitted to travel with ministers and other government officials for official trip. Buhari, however, approved the use of business class for ministers…

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Video: How I discovered my son was blind -Cobham’s wife

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Amazing instrumentalist, Cobhams Asuquo’s wife, Ojuolape has shared that she didn’t know her son was born blind. In a recent interview, the mother of two stated that it was until four months after the birth of her son did it become evident that he was born visually impaired. However, the young man is fast taking over his father and is brilliant pianist Singer Cobhams Asuquo’s wife, Ojuolape has opened up about raising a visually-impaired son. While speaking in a recent interview, Ojuolape revealed that she didn’t know her son was visually-impaired until…

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Unizik sacks lecturer accused of academic fraud

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The Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has finally dismissed embattled senior lecturer in the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Peter Ekemezie. The PUNCH gathered on Wednesday that the Anambra State indigene’s claims to a master’s degree and PhD from UNIZIK were also dismissed by the school. The development followed a series of investigations into the fraudulent academic records of Ekemezie, which had been covered up for about nine years by top officers of the school. Arrangement for his promotion to the rank of a Reader (associate professor)…

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