ACCESS Bank has announced plans to acquire its troubled rival Diamond Bank as part of a major expansion plan that continues the ongoing consolidating within the Nigerian banking industry.
RESIDENTS of Molai village have flooded into the Borno State capital Maiduguri following a heavy gun duel between soldiers and Boko Haram fighters after the insurgents attacked the community over the weekend.
NIGERIAN striker Sadiq Umar has dispelled rumours that Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers terminated him contract with them last week pointing out that he left the side after is parent club Roma decided to recall him and send him elsewhere.
FORMER vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for not attending the funeral of 19 soldiers killed in a recent Boko Haram attack at Metele in Borno State.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has issued campaign guidelines to his All Progressives Congress (APC) banning all ministries and parastatals from using public money to fund the party and capping the amount that can be spent in the presidential election to N1bn ($2.73m).
ALL of the chairman of the 37 branches of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have rejected the court judgement declaring Professor Jerry Gana as their presidential candidate saying they remain loyal to former Cross River State governor Donald Duke.
FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has set President Muhammadu 15 challenges including a request that he takes off his cap and allows he hair to be examined as part of an exercise to ascertain that he is not an imposter.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's planned presentation of the 2019 budget to the National Assembly on Wednesday is under threat after staff at the complex announced a four-day strike starting from tomorrow to protest unpaid allowances.
NIGERIAN-born boxer Larry Ekundayo has retained his International Boxing Federation (IBF) European welterweight title by defeating Louis Greene of the United Kingdom in a unanimous points decision.
At the fight which took place at York Hall in east London on Friday night, Ekundayo defeated Green after 10 cracking rounds. Judges scored the fight 100-89, 98-91 and 99-90 in favour of Ekundayo, 36, popularly known as The Natural.
ACCESS Bank has announced plans to acquire its troubled rival Diamond Bank as part of a major expansion plan that continues the ongoing consolidating within the Nigerian banking industry.
RESIDENTS of Molai village have flooded into the Borno State capital Maiduguri following a heavy gun duel between soldiers and Boko Haram fighters after the insurgents attacked the community over the weekend.
NIGERIAN striker Sadiq Umar has dispelled rumours that Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers terminated him contract with them last week pointing out that he left the side after is parent club Roma decided to recall him and send him elsewhere.
FORMER vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for not attending the funeral of 19 soldiers killed in a recent Boko Haram attack at Metele in Borno State.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has issued campaign guidelines to his All Progressives Congress (APC) banning all ministries and parastatals from using public money to fund the party and capping the amount that can be spent in the presidential election to N1bn ($2.73m).
ALL of the chairman of the 37 branches of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have rejected the court judgement declaring Professor Jerry Gana as their presidential candidate saying they remain loyal to former Cross River State governor Donald Duke.
FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has set President Muhammadu 15 challenges including a request that he takes off his cap and allows he hair to be examined as part of an exercise to ascertain that he is not an imposter.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's planned presentation of the 2019 budget to the National Assembly on Wednesday is under threat after staff at the complex announced a four-day strike starting from tomorrow to protest unpaid allowances.
NIGERIAN-born boxer Larry Ekundayo has retained his International Boxing Federation (IBF) European welterweight title by defeating Louis Greene of the United Kingdom in a unanimous points decision.
