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The lbadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) on Monday flagged off its 2019 Customers Service Week, geared toward rewarding its esteemed customers. Mr John Ayodele, the company Chief Operating Officer, said in Lagos that the week-long programme was designed to appreciate the customers across the seven states of the company’s operations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that IBEDC franchise areas include: Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Kwara, parts of Kogi, Niger and Ekiti. “The week is an opportunity to celebrate and appreciate our most important stakeholders, that is, our customers. “Without our customers, we won’t be in business. “It is also…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed court papers to confiscate a number of properties traced to the embattled former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. At the same time, the anti-graft agency has filed another motion to get an extended order to detain the former deputy director with the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension, CIPPO, who was handed last week by the Department of State Services after being arrested in an undisclosed hotel in Abuja. A reliable source said last night that the EFCC had traced many houses worth hundreds of millions of Naira at…
Mercy Eke has become the winner of Big Brother Naija season four. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ‘Queen of Highlights’ was crowned winner during the finale on Sunday. This win makes Mercy the first woman to win the Big Brother Naija reality show since inception. Popularly known as ‘Lamborghini’, Mercy was touted as the possible winner for the season by show fans and celebrities alike. The light hearted diva made the top two with her show best friend, Mike Edwards, who emerged first runner up. As winner, Mercy walked home with cash prize worth over 40…
Statistics emanating from the final day of the Big Brother Naija Season 4 ‘Pepper Dem Gang’ episode shows that Nigerians spent a whopping N7.2 billion on votes. Announcing the results on Sunday, the host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu said that the season got over 240 million votes, out of which over 50 million votes were cast in the final week of the season. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that it costs N30 to cast a vote on the BBNaija Reality TV Show. With the figure, Nigerians spent over N7.2 billion on votes alone. Announcing the winner of the show, the…
Two suspected robbers, who lured a computer dealer to a desolate location and dispossessed him of 3 Apple laptops valued at N1.5 million, at gun point have been arrested by the operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad. The suspects, Victor Remi (27), a forex trader and Ekeh Maxwell, 23, a musician, were arrested on Monday, weeks after their heist. The suspects, both residents of 18, Alexandra Street, Abule Egba, Lagos, disclosed that they got all the details of their victim through his twitter handle. They added that they opened up conversation with him immediately and placed an order for…
LAGOS – The Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, says it is delighted to partner with Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). “GOCOP has, over the years, remained a segment of the Commission’s broad media stakeholders, who have continually supported in disseminating our activities – policies, programmes and decisions – to its various stakeholders. “We are, indeed, grateful for the professional manner with which you cover our activities from time to time,” NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Prof Umar Dambatta, said at the 3rd annual conference of GOCOP held at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday. Delegation of NCC at the 3rd…
An Oyo State-based socio-political organisation, the Oyo Kajola Group (OKG), has weighed in on the controversy between Oyo and Osun States over the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, saying that the needless drama being orchestrated by the government of Osun State was unhelpful and condemnable. The OKG, in a statement by its media coordinator, Adebayo Ayandele, said that reports coming out of Osun State in recent weeks on the LAUTECH issue show that Osun was bent on running down the school for no just cause. The statement read: “We are appalled by the unhelpful and condemnable statistics that have…
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Dr Akinwunmi Adesina for re-election as the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Akinwunmi, while speaking at an event in Lagos on Sunday, appreciated Buhari for nominating him for re-election for a second term as president of the bank. According to Adesina, Nigeria has invested so much in me. “When asked by former President Goodluck Jonathan to serve as Minister of Agriculture, it was duty calling me to the land of my birth. “I served Nigeria to the very best of my ability. I thank God that Nigeria’s…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Government at all levels in the country and corporate organisations have been urged to make more investment in the health sector of the national economy as a deliberate way of improving healthcare delivery and curtail medical tourism outside the country. School Head, College of Nursing, Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital, Onitsha, Sir Sylvester Ogoegbulem made the call in Onitsha at the second matriculation/capping ceremony of the school. Ogoegbulem said that it is by making deliberate investment in the health sector that would not only guarantee an improved health of all Nigerians, but also stem the ugly tide…
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, said the Federal Government would ensure that Nollywood actors get a fair deal from their trade. Mustapha stated this at the grand finale of a stage play titled “Agbarho The Musical”, produced by 30-year-old Patrick Otoro, on Saturday in Abuja. He said the proprietary rights of Nollywood actors needed to be protected by the government so that they can derive maximum return from their artistic endeavours. “One of the things that government has to do is to make sure that their rights are protected because that is why…