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  Nigerian Bottling Company has stated that $1.32bn has been invested in enhancing its operational capacity, supply chain infrastructure and training in the country. The Managing Director of the Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd, Goran Sladic, made this known recently, when ...

  Wema Bank grew its Profit Before Tax by over 130 per cent to N21.76bn at the end of the third quarter of 2023 from N9.46bn at the end of the same period in 2022. An analysis of the bank’s ...

  The United Bank for Africa Plc has vowed to deepen digital banking in Nigeria as it marked the sixth anniversary of the launch of its artificial intelligent digital assistant and Chatbot – Leo. According to a statement from the ...

  Chevron Nigeria Limited has appointed a new Chairman and Managing Director, Jim Swartz. This was contained in statement made available to The PUNCH on Wednesday by the firm’s General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs Esimaje Brikinn. According to ...

  A Unity Bank customer, Mr. Musa Dayyabu, has emerged winner of One Million Naira in the ongoing cash reward Promo by Unity Bank Plc and CashToken Rewards Africa. CashToken Rewards Africa is a Cash-Reward-as-a-Service company that rewards customers for ...

  Stanbic IBTC Holdings, a member of Standard Bank Group, has once again proven its commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences by securing top spots in KPMG’s 2023 West Africa Banking Industry Customer Experience Survey. In the recently released survey ...

  Sadio Mane has married his longtime partner Aisha Tamba, just days before Senegal’s opener at the 2023 AFCON. The wedding ceremony took place on Sunday in Keur Massar, the commune located in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, with images ...

  Microsoft has overtaken Apple for the first time since 2021 to become the world’s most valuable firm by market capitalisation – which measures the value and number of a company’s shares. Microsoft surpassed Apple at numerous points throughout Thursday’s ...

Federal Capital Territory Police Command says operatives from Utako Police Divisional Headquarters have arrested a couple in connection with series of robbery, specifically ‘one chance’ activities within the FCT and its environs The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josphenie Adeh, ...

Barely a month after he lost his bid to be freed from continued detention, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sacked his legal team   A highly-place judicial source confirmed to Vanguard that the ...

The Nasarawa State Police command said the officers of the Nigerian Army have arrested a fake soldier in the Awe Local Government Area of the state and handed him over to the command for interrogation   This was contained in ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has lost his elder sister. Madam Obebhatein Jonathan passed away on Thursday, January 11, at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State after a brief illness She was aged 70. In a statement issued to newsmen by ...

  Zenith Bank PLC, one of Nigeria’s leading financial institutions, has dismissed as entirely untrue reports on the purported arrest of its Group Managing Director, Dr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, in a section of the media. The reports had claimed Dr Onyeagwu ...

  Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative financial institution and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, set a record-breaking precedent in 2023, with a tremendous upsurge in its 2023 corporate performance as seen in the bank’s 2023 Q3 performance ...

An Ibadan Family Court, sitting at Iyaganku, remanded Olarewaju Oludele (50), a fake doctor, at the Agodi Correctional Centre on Thursday, accused of causing the death of a baby boy whom he allegedly drowned in a canal   The magistrate, ...

The Defence Headquarters has urged Nigerians to do anything in their capacity to prevent terrorists from tormenting them in 2024 ‘ The DHQ made the call to the Nigerian people asking them to be security conscious and report criminal activities ...

Masinde Muliro University graduate has committed suicide after failing to secure a job five years after completing her studies   The deceased, Vera Omondi from Gem constituency, Kenya graduated in 2019 with a degree in Science at the university. Her ...

Renowned Nigerian telecom and oil magnate, Mike Adenuga, has reclaimed the position of Nigeria’s second-richest individual, surpassing Abdul Samad Rabiu, following Forbes’ reassessment of the value of his mobile phone network, Globacom Mike Adenuga’s current net worth is now at ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the remand of a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, in Kuje Correctional Service The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Agunloye over allegations of fraud in the Mambilla ...

President, Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau, says Super Falcons coach Randy Waldrum will be handed a new deal, after his contract expired October 31, 2023   Randy Waldrum was appointed by the NFF in 2020 and led the Falcons to ...

  The Henley Passport Index has listed the most powerful passports in the world on Thursday. HPI is a global passport-ranking website with an original, authoritative ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of one Benjamin Ikaa who was arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for his involvement in $1.6million cryptocurrency ...

A chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Okonkwo has said Doyin Okupe wouldn’t have remembered any “ideological differences”, if Labout Party had won the presidential election. He also said, as far as he is concerned, Okupe left the party when he resigned as the ...

A man has sliced off his friend’s ear at a Lagos abattoir     The Lagos State Police command has now confirmed the arrest of the said friend, said to be Bashiru Ahmed by name. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, ...

A staff of one of the new generation banks in Ikorodu, Lagos state has taking her own life The said lady left a suicide note, where she lamented that nothing was working. Please check on family members and friends. That ...