The Access Bank United Kingdom (UK)  used its’ annual Access Bank Polo Day at Guards Polo Club Windsor  to announce a 36 percent growth in its balance sheet for the year ended December 2018, reflecting another year of outstanding international business growth. CBN mandates banks to lend 60% of deposits(Opens in a new browser tab) […]

Nigeria has two armies. The first army, called “a nation within a nation”, is the one headed by General Buratai. The second army includes 190 million Fellow Nigerians; not in any uniform, but responding to the universal need for food. Just as the first army can be wiped out if the enemy cuts off their transport of food, the second army can also be demolished by mass starvation occasioned by acute food scarcity. Right now the two armies in Nigeria are endangered by inevitable very severe food shortage in the country this year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, yesterday, disclosed it has taken a number of measures to drastically reduce the volume of unclaimed dividends in the Nigerian capital market, adding that presently, about 2.6 million account holders have registered for electronic dividends.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s endorsement, of the document establishing the AfCFTA, at the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of African Union Heads of government in Niamey, Niger Republic, last week, (July 2019), suggests that 53 countries are now party to the same AfCFTA, which Nigeria, unexpectedly, refused to sign, even after 44 other countries had endorsed the treaty in a similar convention in South Africa in March 2018.

The Nigerian Army on Sunday night effected a major shake up in its hierarchy with newly promoted Lt. General Lamidi Adeosun redeployed from the department of Training and Operations (CTOP), to Policy and Plans as the new COPP. Major General Bulama Biu who was also recently promoted remains the substantive General Officer Commanding 7 division […]

A suspect arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, RRS, has revealed how he makes at least N18,000 daily from selling stolen phones.

ABEOKUTA—NOBEL laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, said, yesterday, that the problems confronting Nigeria are beyond President Muhammadu Buhari.

NIGERIA today is three nations. The nation that holds President Muhammadu Buhari infallible, that which sees nothing but fallibility, and, the ‘Third Force’ which sees serious problems and wants to find solution irrespective of who is President of the party in power. This group thinks that if the heavens fall, it will fall on all Nigerians and it is, therefore, wiser for a collective struggle to prevent such calamity by all means necessary.

FIERY human rights, environmental rights and Niger Delta activist, Ms Ann-Kio Briggs, 66, is pained by the state of affairs in Nigeria and wants urgent action to avert what she described as a dangerous ride on the path to disintegration.

FOLLOWING the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunri, daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti by suspected herdsmen on the Ore-Akure expressway last Friday, some Yoruba leaders said yesterday, that herdsmen have declared war against the South West.

THE leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, expressed shock over “the criminal silence of All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders in Yorubaland over the killing of Mrs. Funke Fasoranti Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Ruben Fasoranti, by suspected herdsmen.”

African legend Jay-Jay Okocha believes Nigerians are not bothered by how good or bad goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi is doing in South Africa.

Confederation of African Football are considering legal action against a Saudi Arabian pirate channel for the illegal broadcast of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

The injury to Shehu Abdullahi in Nigeria’s first match against Burundi after just 20 minutes offered Chidozie Awaziem a rare opportunity to shine. The 22-year-old currently playing in the Turkish top tier with Çaykur Rizespor on loan from FC Porto, naturally, a right-back was thrown into the deep end to hold forte at right back.

The importance of reading especially in the 21st Century was once again brought to the fore at the reading event hosted by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, LASU, in honour of Nigeria’s prolific writer and scholar, Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo.