A magistrate court sitting in Surulere, Lagos has ordered Polaris Bank to refund $30,769 illegally deducted from the domiciliary and Naira accounts of three of its customers. The order followed an originating application filed by Adebomi Orogun, Kehinde Banjo and Oluwatoyin Ode against the bank for unjustifiable freezing of their accounts and subsequent illegal deductions on the said accounts, a ...

The Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led Kaduna State Government has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test.   The state’s Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) announced the sack in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna. KADSUBEB’s spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, said the board conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in December 2021.   She said that 2,192 primary ...

Biodun Oyebanji, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of Saturday’s Ekiti governorship election. Declaring the winner, Prof. Oyebode Adebowale, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer, said Oyebanji polled a total of 187, 057 to win the election.He said that Oyebanji had certified the law and was, therefore, declared the winner. “That ...

First City Monument Bank has appealed the Imo State High Court Judgement awarding N10 million as damages to a businessman, Kingsley Unegbu. Justice I.G. Chukwunyere of the court on May 12, 2022, lambasted the bank for putting a wrong picture on Unegbu’s debit card. The court ruled that the plaintiff timely reported the picture mismatch on his Mastercard to the ...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has granted the use of hijab by female Muslim students in public schools in Lagos State. The Supreme Court delivered the ruling upholding the use of hijab by Muslim students on Friday in Abuja.   The court dismissed an appeal by the Lagos State Government and upheld the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal ...

The Ondo Catholic Diocese has released names and pictures of worshippers murdered by terrorists during the Sunday, June 5, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo. This is as their burial gets underway in the state. At least 40 people, including children were killed by yet to be identified gunmen at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo. About 80 others sustained ...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has picked Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State governor as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election. Atiku announced the decision on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s INEC deadline for the submission of names of party candidates and their running mates. He emphasized the need for party unity, noting that ...

Indications have emerged that Nigerian Exchange Limited p(NGX) has recently fined Union Bank Plc, 1.5 million for failure to file their financial statements after the regulatory due date.   Investigation shows that the company was sanctioned during the current financial year 2022 for their inability to meet the regulatory requirements ranging between FY’2021 and the first quarter of 2022. Union ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on 12th June, 2022 gave his last Democracy Day speech as the president Federal Republic of Nigeria. Addressing Nigerians, Buhari threw light on the need to celebrate Democracy Day which he said; “is to celebrate freedom and unity of our nation and to mark the end of military rule and the return of power and control into ...

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, has noted that the opposition to Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023 is not necessary, as according to him, competence, capacity and capability in terms of delivering good governance to Nigerians should be placed ahead of religion.   The Kaduna governor who was the first governor in the state to pick a fellow Muslim as running ...