Day: February 19, 2022

Gunmen Kill Ex-Intern with PRNigeria who justĺ bagged BUK First Class

Precious Ibekwe

Graduated as the overall best student of Communication Department in August 2021, Mathew who was due to enrol for mandatory NYSC programme next week, was killed with other passengers at Ekwulobia, one of the largest cities in Anambra State. His death came 7 months after he lost his dad Unknown gunmen have killed Mr. Sule Mathew, a first-class graduate of Communication and former intern with PRNigeria while travelling to Anambra State with other passengers. Mathew, who studied Information and Media Studies, graduated with first-class from the Faculty of Communication, Bayero…

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JUST IN: Oyetola Wins Aregbesola’s Ward, Defeats Adeoti In Ilesa + RESULT

Gbenga Adeoti

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has defeated Moshood Adeoti, in Rauf Aregbesola ward, bringing a twist to the ongoing APC primary election for Osun 2022 governorship election. Platforms Africa reports that, so far, Oyetola polled 309 votes in Ward 008, Ilesa East local government area to defeat Aregbesola’s preferred aspirant, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti who garnered 146 votes. READ ALSO: He started to think he is our god, Aregbesola Bombs Tinubu + Full Speech The Spectre of Jalumi, By Oladeinde Olawoyin OSUN Mega Schools: ‘There are lateral cracks on ground floor…

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DEFINING FAKE NEWS, BY FRANCIS KOKUTSE

ADEOLA YUSUF

When governments around the world show their disgust over fake news, it amuses me because they engage in that a lot. l have covered the military in the past, and that was where l was given an insight into what military intelligence people call “cover story” that becomes propaganda in theatres of war. If they won’t admit it, let them know that it is also fake news of a kind. Over the past few years, fake news has grown to become a new phenomenon that has taken the globe by…

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Football Star, Eto’o, Declared Biological Father Of 22-Yr-Old Spanish Lady

Wonuola Olujobi

The player who met with the motherof the young lady in a Madrid nightclub in 1997, must now pay the 22-year-old 1,400 euros per month, including retroactive payments since the lawsuit was filed.   A Madrid court has declared former Barcelona player Samuel Eto’o as the official father of a 22-year-old Spanish woman, Erika Do Rosario Nieves. Eto’o himself in absentia and did not attend to the evidence presented against him. This has been indicated to EFE by lawyer Fernando Osuna, who was in charge of the legal representation of…

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Woman Kills Senior Wife, Says Their Husband Have More Sex With Her

Ayobami Adedinni

An Ondo State Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, has ordered the remand of a 25-year-old woman, Rebecca Nicodemus for allegedly stabbing her rival, Precious Nicodemus, to death. The defendant was said to have committed the offence at her husband’s house at Idogun Village in Ode Irele, the headquarters of Irele Local Government Area of the state on February 4, 2022. It was gathered that the trouble started when the defendant, who is a junior wife, felt that their husband had been paying much attention to the senior wife (deceased) more…

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Buhari Commissions NDPHC New Substation, Excites Nasarawa

ADEOLA YUSUF

President Muhamadu Buhari is scheduled to formally commission the Substation constructed by Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) on Thursday next week. The Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, has already said, that there are jubilations across Nasarawa State over the recently energised Lafia 2X150 MVA & 2X60 /132/33/330 KV Transmission Substation which was earlier completed by NDPHC. Speaking during a pre-commissioning inspection to the Substation by the Executive Director, Networks, NDPHC Limited, Engr. IfeOluwa Oyedele and his team on Tuesday, Engr. Sule, who was represented by his deputy, Dr.…

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Meet Adeola Ogunsemi, Oando new CFO, Merger, Acquisition Advisor

ADEOLA YUSUF

Oando has appointed Adeola Ogunsemi, Chief Financial Officer. Platforms Africa reports that Ogunsemi is to provide advice and insight across a broad spectrum of topics, including mergers, acquisitions and divestments, joint venture management as well as financial management for Oando. He is to become the newest member of its board following the resignation of Olufemi Adeyemo who was close to retirement having served the company for over 16 years. Olufemi joined Oando in October 2005 and with his extensive financial expertise played major roles in the growth and success of…

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‘N1.2trn Belonging to Nigerians Stuck in Banks, 45m accounts without BVN’

Aliyu Aliyu

The House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee on Unclaimed Funds in the Nigerian Commercial Banks and Infractions by the Central Bank of Nigeria has begun investigation of funds stuck in the Deposit Money Banks, also known as commercial banks, due to the failure to link the account holding them to a Bank Verification Number and the Treasury Single Account policy of the Federal Government. The committee, a report by Punch read, is particularly probing into the over 45 million accounts said to be holding funds amounting to over N1.2tn. The…

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