Hardly had the dusts settled on his controversial involvement in 13 billion naira fraud case with Oyo Government,that it was alleged to have been hidden at Heritage bank, Zacheaus Adelabu Adedeji (Zach) busied himself in another deep mess of been detained and interrogated at EFCC headquarter almost on a monthly basis.
Information scooped revealed that immediately Zach made his intension of contesting for the seat of Oyo state governor known to the public, aggrieved citizens and oppositions had written several petitions to EFCC, alleging him of several financial misconduct while he was the commissioner of finance of the state.
Diamond Bank has gone ‘Beyond Banking’ again. Marking Independence Day, the group announced that it is holding a full-day experience called “Tech Fest” to bring together the best talent in Nigerian technology – one of the country’s fastest growing sectors.
Tech Fest was announced by the group’s CEO, Uzoma Dozie. Giving insight into the event, Uzoma stated “Diamond Bank’s philosophy has always been about connecting people and connecting markets. Technology is now driving these connections at a faster rate than ever before and this is improving the landscape for new businesses to start out, to be seen, to scale and most importantly to offer great customer experiences”.
Uzoma shared that while anchoring the Diamond TV programme ‘Tech Turks’, he has interviewed over 30 tech entrepreneurs in the last two years and it provided inspiration for something bigger – “I’m so excited to bring together all of these businesses run by smart ambitious people to create a new energy at Tech Fest. For me, this is a platform that we can share with our customers to help them get the best of local technology and to partner together to run better businesses. If there is one thing we have learned at Diamond, it is that you can’t do everything on your own and you need to collaborate if you are going to win and be the best at what you do”.
Diamond Bank is throwing the event open to all of her customers who want to work together to create innovative new businesses that solve real problems for Nigeria. As well as hosting a live Tech Turks stage, the event will showcase its leading small business customers, its pick of ‘fintech’ leaders, platform providers and investors.
Following Uzoma, the Bank’s Head of Corporate Communications, Chioma Afe, revealed that the event will hold in the second week of January 2018 at the Landmark Centre in Lagos. Chioma said that “this is not about telling our customers that we want to connect people and markets, this is about providing a platform to actually make it happen”.
The judgement was recently delivered by Justice Ibrahim N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos in a matter instituted by First Bank of Nigeria Plc over a claim
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation has secured a landmark judgement to the tune of N556,493,034.16 in favour of depositors of Lead Merchant Bank Limited (in-liquidation).
The judgement was recently delivered by Justice Ibrahim N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos in a matter instituted by First Bank of Nigeria Plc over a claim of indebtedness by Lead Merchant Bank (in-liquidation) to the FBN prior to the revocation of the closed bank’s licence in 2006 by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
FBN had claimed in its suit before the court that the closed bank became indebted to it under a clearing and settlement banking transaction and that as at March 9, 2006 when the bank’s licence was withdrawn, the indebtedness stood at N556,493,034.16.
The quiet atmosphere of the Angel n Eagle clinic inside the Ibara Housing Estate, Abeokuta was shattered on the night Wednesday 21 June,2017 by a panic call from Ogun State’s Commissioner for Information, Dayo Adeneye who brought in a dying patient.
A source hinted that the politician who used to anchor the Primetime Show with his partner, Kenny Ogungbe before he entered politics drove into the clinic around 12:45am with an unconscious lady and another female.
A visibly shaken Dayo who was dressed in a white singlet and jeans trouser informed the doctor that the lady got drunk and passed out. He even produced a bottle which he labelled as proof of the substance taken by the lady.
In a showy display of his wealth, House of Reps member representing Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency, Dapo Lam-Adesina has taken to social media platform, Instagram to flaunt what he called “real accessories”.
The lawmaker with Instagram handle, “dapolam’ upload shoes, perfumes caps etc to show his acclaimed high fashion.
Unfortunately, the post infuriated his followers, most of whom are youths.
The Department of State Security (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will any moment from now swoop on another oil mogul, Mr Gabriel Ogbechie.
Security sources revealed to us that Mr Ogbechie who is the Managing Director/CEO of Rain Oil Limited is among the big players in the corruption ridden oil and gas sector of the country which President Mohammadu Buhari has sworn to clean up.
As a former minister of Petroleum during the military regime, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari was in tune with the goings on and the malfeasants in the country’s oil and gas sector. Now a democratically elected ruler, one of the main objectives of President Buhari is to cleanse the petroleum industry of corrupt practices and block all leakages
A source in the presidency informed us that President Buhari, early 2016 set up an investigative panel to discreetly probe the oil and gas sector. The reports are to be channeled through the Chief of Staff, Alh. Abba Kyari and delivered on his table.
Prevalence of drug abuse by students in Nigeria institutions is becoming more alarming.
A recent case of older adult aiding such drug abuse is a case of a security guard attached to the nation’s oldest surviving financial institutions, Wema Bank.
The bank branch situated inside Babcock University, Ilishan-remo in Ogun state, according to information at our disposal has turned to a popular Shrine in Lagos where sales of hard drugs is the order of the day.
It was gathered that a security guard attached to Wema bank simply called, “Area” sells hard drugs in the banking hall secretly!
