Otedola acquires additional N222bn FirstHoldco shares, now controls 26%
By Peter Egwuatu Femi Otedola, Chairman of First HoldCo, parent company of First Bank, has bought additional 1.779 billion shares of the company worth N222.209 billion. According to a statement signed by the company’s secretary, Abiola Baruwa, made available to the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX, yesterday, the shares were acquired through Otedola’s investment vehicle, Calvados Global Services Limited. […]
Ibadan set for 5th Oluyole Amateur open in August
By Chioma Okoye The fifth edition of the Oluyole Amateur Open will hold from August 14 to 16 at the Ibadan Golf Club, with organisers expecting over 150 amateur golfers, corporate executives, investors and golf enthusiasts from across Nigeria. Speaking at a media briefing in Ibadan on Tuesday, the Tournament Convener, Folarin Laosun, described the […]
Zelensky, Netanyahu and Trump: A prostrate world at their feet, by Owei Lakemfa
There are one hundred and thirty active wars lit around the world today and three outstanding men can be linked to many of them. But President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has emerged the best tactician and strategist of the threesome. Always playing the victim, he just pulled off a major tactical link between the two most […]
Tinubu’s reforms would have failed without Nigerians’ sacrifice – IMPI
…says citizens prevented economic collapse, kept reforms alive through hardship By Joseph Erunke, Abuja A policy think tank, the Independent Media and Policy Initiative,IMPI, has declared that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s sweeping economic reforms would have collapsed without the resilience, sacrifice and patriotism of ordinary Nigerians who endured the painful consequences of the administration’s bold […]
Xenophobic attacks and ANC’s leadership failures
South Africa is once again disgracing itself. The latest wave of xenophobic attacks against African migrants, including Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Somalis, has reopened wounds that should have healed after the shameful outbreaks of 2008, 2015 and 2019. Shops have been looted, businesses destroyed, homes abandoned and livelihoods shattered simply because fellow Africans crossed borders […]
Warri Monarch’s Coronation Anniversary Golf Tourney offers ₦1m prize
No fewer than 50 golfers will compete for a total prize of ₦1 million at a special golf tournament organised to commemorate the fifth coronation anniversary of the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III. The tournament, tagged “Five Glorious Years on the Throne,” will hold on August 8, 2026, at the CanaanLand Golf […]
