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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 ...

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 ...

Union Bank of Nigeria, one of the old generation deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria is currently enmeshed in alleged N1.9 billion fraud saga. Also indicted in the alleged fraud are three former management officers of the bank. Barely five months after his retirement in March 31, 2021, Mr. Emeka Emuwa, a former chief executive officer of the lender, will be ...

Justice Ladiran Akintola of Oyo State High Court has directed the Department of State Security (DSS) to pay N20 billion to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) for unlawfully invading his Soka, Ibadan house on July 1.   A report just coming in from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, says that “Akintola awarded the sum as exemplary and aggravated damages ...

Former Rivers State governor, Dr. Peter Odili, has been placed on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ) , the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has told a court in Abuja.   Odili, a medical doctor, deputy governor between 1992 and 1993 and two-term governor of Rivers State between 1999 and 2007 is husband to Justice ...

“I wish God can just end Nigeria” that was the statement on the lips of a Nollywood Actress, Kemi Stone after a sum of N500,000 got stolen from her Guaranty Trust Bank account recently. The Isara Remo Ogun State born diva, exclusively shared the below information with www.naijasocietynews.com after a Self-acclaimed staff of Guaranty Trust Bank allegedly placed a call ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers in his cabinet of their appointments.   They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono, and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this on Wednesday in Abuja after the Federal Executive Council meeting.   He disclosed that the Minister of Environment, ...