Zenith Bank’s Z-Woman promotes Women empowerment

Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Zenith Bank Plc has introduced a new product, Z-Woman, which is focused on empowering female business owners. Z-Woman account holders stand a chance to enjoy loans of up to N10 million at a single-digit interest rate, free digital skills training, and free exhibition stands at Zenith Bank events and many other benefits which will help them grow their businesses and increase sales. According to the Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive of Zenith Bank, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, Z-Woman offers women the opportunity to enjoy a partnership with…

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Another senator is dead

Barely two months after the Senate lost a member; Benjamin Uwajumogu, from  Imo State, in December last year, the red chamber has once again been depleted with the death of yet another member. He is the Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial District,  Ignatius Longjan, whose demise was announced Monday morning. One of his colleagues in the Senate confirmed his demise to our correspondent on condition of anonymity on Monday Morning. The senator said. “Yes,  the man is dead but it is either his family, the Plateau State Government or the…

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Angry customers slam N7bn on FCMB for alleged breach of contract

First City Monument Bank Plc, FCMB is embattled as two companies Sunlek Investment Limited and Sunsteel Industries Limited have sued the bank for N7billion for alleged breach of contract. In a 126 paragraphs of statement of claim accompanied by another 27 paragraphs of a witness sworn to on oath and filed before a Federal high court sitting in Lagos by a legal practitioner, John Olusegun Odubela SAN, the two companies alleged that they operated loan accounts with First City Monument Bank upon which disbursement was made for all letters of credit…

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Sanwo-olu’s commissioner, Jibola Ponle’s marriage collapses

Ajibola Ponnle, Lagos State Commissioner for Establishment, Training, and Pensions, has filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Michael Ponnle, CEO of defunct Origin Oil & Gas. They have been married for 22 years. Ajibola filed the petition at a Lagos High Court, Igbosere, seeking an end to the marriage  . In her evidence before the trial judge, Justice Lateefah Okunnu, on February 4, 2020, Ajibola, a chartered accountant admitted that she had left her matrimonial home. In the amended petition she filed before the court, she stated that eight…

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