Mr Ben Llewelyn-Jones, the departing British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, said on Wednesday night he would miss the high energy, confidence, self-belief, and culture of Nigerians. This was said by Llewelyn-Jones during the British High Commission’s farewell reception for him in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Llewelyn-Jones is leaving Nigeria…
20-year-old Nigerian Lady wins global award for being able to speak 11 foreign languages fluently, celebrates achievement. Favour Chisimidi who is a language prodigy can speak fluently in Korean, Swahili, Shona, Indonesian, Filipino, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, English and Igbo Language. She learned to speak all the languages without leaving the shores of Nigeria. According…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, today, resubmitted former President Muhammadu Buhari’s $800 Million loan World Bank loan request to the Senate, to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. On May 10, 2023, just 19 days after the end of the administration of Buhari, he sent the same request to the National Assembly. The Ahmad Lawan-led Senate…
Ecobank is urging First Bank Holdings to reject the acquisition of 4.7 billion shares by a former Chairman of the bank, Dr. Oba Otudeko. The bank allegedly raised an alarm in a letter written by its Legal Counsel, Kunle Ogunba & Associates, in which it stated that the business magnate, through his affiliated entities, owed…
Oyo State Magistrate Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, has ordered skit maker, Abdullahi Maruff Adisa, popularly known as Trinity Guy, to remain in Prison till August 31. It will be recalled that, the Oyo State police command had in June summoned the Trinity Guy following his controversial prank video with a minor. He was later…
The unending complaints of non-reversal of banks’ failed customer transactions have continued to raise serious concerns within Nigeria’s financial sector. It was gathered that over 60 per cent of complaints from banks’ customers hover around failed transactions. The development is causing pain, frustration and agony for many customers. However, at a sensitization fair in Bauchi…
Ekiti State Government said yesterday that perpetrators and propagators of kiss-a-thon, a planned kissing marathon targeted at setting a Guinness World Record, billed to start in the state today risked three years imprisonment. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Dayo Apata, said the same fate awaited proprietors or owners of any facility used…
The Publisher of Nigerian News Direct, Dr Samuel Ibiyemi, is dead. His death was announced in a statement on Tuesday by his wife and children. According to the family, Ibiyemi died at Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan-Remo, in Ogun State, after a brief illness. He was aged 56. The family noted that apart from being…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced the outbreak of diphtheria infection in some parts of Abuja. Diphtheria is a bacterial infection caused by the corynebacterium species that affect the nose, throat, and sometimes, skin of an individual. Some symptoms of diphtheria include fever, runny nose, sore throat, cough, red eyes, neck swelling, and…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Sunday, said it would withdraw the result of a certain Ejikeme Mmesoma for manually inflating her result and announcing herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to a statement issued by the Board, Ejikeme used her manually inflated score to attract a…
