Day: April 28, 2021

Lagos Hands Over Amputee Hawker, N25m To Police, Exposes Her True Identity

Tade Salako

  “I couldn’t believe that someone from Kogi will come and swindle smart minds Lagos is peopled with,” an official said after receiving calls from some of the people the sachet water hawker had a deal with to either get their own share of “N25m proceeds of the fraud” or else they would expose her.   The Government of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has handed over 26-year-old homeless amputee and single mother, Mary Daniel, who came to limelight after her pictures surfaced online, to the Nigerian Police, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO)…

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Lawmakers berate Nigerian Banks’’ hidden charges, exploitation

Precious Ibekwe

    Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has expressed concern over the way banks charge customers indiscriminately during transactions. Gbajabiamila said this when he hosted the Board and Management of the Standard Chartered Bank, led by the Chief Executive Officer, Mr Lamin Manjang, on Monday in Abuja. The speaker said apart from charges known to the customers, there appeared to be other ‘hidden’ charges that the banks imposed on their customers. He stated that the House was concerned that such a practice was making customers helpless,…

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Buhari, Osinbajo’s Successors emerge in 660 days – INEC

Aliyu Aliyu

  Here are reasons the Nigeria’s election umpire, INEC, fixes February 18 for 2023 General elections The Successors for the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and vice President Yemi Osinbajo are billed to emerge in the next 660 days. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which disclosed this, added that the 2023 general election would hold on February 18, 2023. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu disclosed this Wednesday in a keynote address at a public hearing on a Bill for an Act to establish National Electoral Offences Commission organised by the Senate Committee on…

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