First Bank of Nigeria Limited has offered to give financial support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the education sector to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Bankole Adediran, Head, Transaction Banking Products, FirstBank, made this known…
My brother killed himself over union wahala but everyone is blaming his wife
In Nigeria, it is easy to blame the wife for anything that goes wrong with her husband; but let’s be honest here, my brother’s wife is a terrible woman. We generally don’t like her in the family, even to date.…
Lakers president Magic Johnson reveals surprise reason behind shock resignation (Express)
Magic Johnson has admitted that not being able to tweet NBA players was a major reason behind his decision to resign as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. The former Lakers star took up the post in…
Kazakh leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades (BBC)
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the country since independence from the Soviet Union, has announced his resignation. In a pre-recorded television address, he said the decision had “not been simple”. Mr. Nazarbayev, 78, has been largely unchallenged since…
Buhari, Osinbajo, others remember fallen heroes (Guardian)
President Muhammadu Buhari led Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the leadership of the National Assembly and the judiciary to lay wreaths at the National Memorial Arcade in Abuja yesterday. The event, which marked the climax of the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance…
I’ll continue as Baba Go Slow until I retrieve every stolen money –Buhari (Punch)
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he was not shaken by critics who called him Baba Go Slow because of his insistence that stolen money must be followed and retrieved, no matter how long it would take. The President…
How we caged Obasanjo as President – Segun Osoba (Punch)
A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba in Abuja on Tuesday gave a vivid account of how he and his former colleagues put aside their party differences and caged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo while in office. According to him,…
Maldives gets new president (Guardian)
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was inaugurated Saturday as the new president of the Maldives after the opposition united to dislodge pro-China strongman leader Abdulla Yameen in September elections. Solih, 54, emerged as common opposition candidate as all key dissidents were either…
Madagascar goes to the polls to pick next president (Punch)
Madagascar went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president, with the three front-runners all former heads of state facing-off amid efforts to defuse a political crisis. Attempts by the most recent president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, to change the…
Don’t believe the hype, not even Tinubu has control of Alimosho -Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili
The most recurring question that has come up since I decided to contest the position of the president of Nigeria has been the issue of structure. I hear it all the time everywhere I go, from family, from friends, on…