A Christian leader in Adamawa state has been killed by insurgents known as Boko Haram. The deceased, Lawan Andimi was the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was abducted and efforts to negotiate his release by the association and government proved abortive as he was eventually killed on Monday.
Non-alcoholic beverage giant, Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) has announced the appointment of Matthieu Seguin as the company’s Managing Director effective October 3, 2019. Seguin succeeds George Polymenakos who was appointed in August 2016. Until his appointment, he was the General Manager for Coca-Cola HBC Ireland & Northern Ireland for almost 4 years. According to […]
Access Bank MD, Herbert Wigwe arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission. Wigwe was arrested by the anti-graft agency on Friday, January 10. The arrest of the Access bank chief executive, according to sources has to do with some transactions and assets involving a jailed politician and businessman, Orji uzor Kalu and others. EFCC […]
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that Taidob College Abeokuta, the 2019 winners of the National Company of the Year competition organized by Junior Achievement Nigeria would compete against student teams from 10 other Junior Achievement member countries across Africa. The student team contestants comprise representative from the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), Ghana, Zambia, Gabon, Uganda, […]
Zion oversees a growing team of African lawyers working on the most complex energy transactions shaping Africa’s modern energy industry LAGOS, Nigeria, November 20, 2019/ — Centurion’s Senior Associate Zion Adeoye has been recognized as an ESQ 40 under 40 Lawyer at the Nigerian Rising Stars Award last week. The ESQ 40 under 40 award […]
A convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke who is serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos is again, the subject of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for being the alleged mastermind of a mega scam to the tune of over $ 100,000, 000. The yahoo boy is […]
Seplat Petroluem has announced that her pioneer Managing Director and later CEO, Mr. Austin Avuru will be retiring in July 2020 after 10 years of leading the company. In these 10 years, Mr. Avuru led the development of a strong organization, the deployment of agile systems, processes and stakeholder relationships that allowed the organization to grow […]
A report just coming in now has it that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that sack of thirty-five aides working in the office of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Daily Nigerian and TheCable both revealed that credible sources from the presidency confirmed the sack to be true and that it even affected aides who were issued appointment […]
The State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department of the Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a businessman, Suleiman Adamu, before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly hacking into a company’s account and stealing N498.6m. Adamu was arraigned alongside his companies, A. A. Suleiman and Sky Cambrian Limited, before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, on four […]
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has appointed a Nigerian, Uduak-Joe Ntuk, as the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, responsible for managing the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that DOGGR uses science and sound engineering practices to regulate the drilling, operation and permanent closure of energy resource wells. The […]