On October 4, 2021, one of the fastest growing financial service providers in Nigeria, Titan Trust Bank Limited, celebrated two years of its existence. Established with a mission to take advantage of the identified gaps in the banking sector and address the unmet needs of the retail mass market, SMEs and corporates, Titan Trust Bank, has continued to provide seamless ...

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. The platforms crashed earlier on Monday, with users unable to send or receive messages or refresh their news feeds. The company says the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be ...

Whitemoney has won the 2021 Big Brother Naija season 6 edition, themed ‘Shine Ya Eye’, leaving Liquorose as the first runner up. At the grand finale on Sunday, housemates evicted were Emmanuel, Angel, Cross, and Pere; leaving Whitemoney and Liquorose as the top two housemates battling for the N90m grand prize. Born Hazel Onou, the 29-year-old contestant is one of ...

The Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Annex, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, re-arraigned a former manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Fidelis Egueke, at a Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged N179.498million fraud. Egueke, who last worked as the bank’s Asaba, Delta State, branch manager, was brought before Justice Tijjani Ringim on an amended 13-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining by false ...

Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, are being sponsored by high-profile Nigerians,President Muhammadu Buhari, has said. According to him, one of those found to be financing the agitators is a federal lawmaker. President Buhari spoke in his Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day broadcast. The President said those sponsoring violence and making hate speeches to instigate disorder would be arrested and prosecuted. Nigeria marks 61 years ...

A prolonged legal tussle has quietly put asunder, the marriage of mutual benefits between two financial institutions in Nigeria, Polaris Bank, and VEP Equity Limited.   The union between the duo gave birth to two different loan facilities granted through a Skye Bank offer letter on July, 25th, 2006 to VEP Equity Limited. The loan totaling N500, 000, 000, 00 ...

Chike Akunyili, husband to late former Information Minister and former director-general of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been reportedly murdered by gunmen.   This newspaper gathered that he was killed at Umuoji in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State on Tuesday evening. Though details of the incident are still sketchy, a ...

UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition(NEC) 2021 Ready to Receive Digital Applications.   Opens Portal for NEC 2021;   Prizes increase in value by 33%   UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the commencement of the 2021 edition of its annual National Essay Competition (NEC) in Nigeria with a call ...

One Kazeem Adeleye, a former staff of Ecobank has been dragged to a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos.   The 31-year-old was charged for conspiracy, fraud and theft.   The prosecution counsel, ASP Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence with some others, who are at large on February 7, 2020 at Ligali Ayorinde, Lagos. ...

Nigeria’s foremost agribusiness lender, Unity Bank Plc has said it will provide additional funding to no fewer than 120,000 smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria in the 2021 wet season farming in Nigeria. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Unity Bank Plc, Mrs. Tomi Somefun disclosed this while delivering a goodwill message at the unveiling of the  first National Maize Pyramids ...