Woman runs mad in Lagos after alighting from SUV
Woman runs mad in Lagos after alighting from SUV A middle-aged woman on Wednesday caused a stir at Obalende Bus Stop in Ikoyi -Obalende Local Council Area of Ikoyi, Lagos when she suddenly threw away her bag containing clothes and other items and shouted “my head.” The woman removed her skirt and started running around the bus stop shouting “where is the man? Where is the man? I am finished.” According to eyewitnesses, the woman started behaving strangely a few minutes after she alighted from a black-coloured Toyota SUV and brought out money f…
Boosting customers’ holiday experience with Stanbic IBTC Travel Insurance
Boosting customers’ holiday experience with Stanbic IBTC Travel Insurance Stanbic IBTC Insurance Brokers Limited, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings has reiterated its resolve to boost its customers’ experiences while they enjoy their holidays with the Stanbic IBTC Travel Insurance policy. Anselem Igbo, Chief Executive Stanbic IBTC Insurance Brokers Limited, disclosed this while emphasising the importance of having a travel insurance cover. Anselem pointed out that travelling comes with a lot of excitement alongside a lot of risks, which ca…
Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria PMI: Business conditions improve in July amid strong client demand
Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria PMI: Business conditions improve in July amid strong client demand A return to growth in output and stronger inflows of new orders helped underpin a further improvement in operating conditions in the Nigerian private sector during July. In turn, businesses increased their purchasing activity at the strongest rate for five months while stocks increased sharply. Despite stronger inflows of new work, employment growth eased and was marginal amid elevated costs and subsequent pressures on profits. Purchase and output pric…
FIRSTMONIE AGENTS TRANSACT OVER 1 BILLION TRANSACTIONS, REINFORCES FIRSTBANK’S LEADING ROLE IN PROMOTING FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN NIGERIA
FIRSTMONIE AGENTS TRANSACT OVER 1 BILLION TRANSACTIONS, REINFORCES FIRSTBANK’S LEADING ROLE IN PROMOTING FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN NIGERIA The Bank’s Firstmonie Agents play a critical role in promoting financial inclusion in the country The Bank currently has over 180,000 Firstmonie Agents spread across 772 Local Government Areas in Nigeria Since 2020, FirstBank has economically empowered thousands of its Firstmonie Agents with over 100 billion naira credit facility First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial servic…
Menace of the herd
Menace of the herd The cult of self commands our politics. It thrives on the sinister quirks of sociopaths: superficial charm, grandiloquence, and conceitedness; a need for constant adulation, a penchant for violence, crass sentimentality, sophistry, the inability to feel guilt or remorse, and the inclination to kill. This is, of course, the ethic promoted by our dysfunctional social complex. It is deeply cultural and hardwired into the Nigerian psyche. It is the ethic of unfettered fanaticism, the principle of partisan zealots. As…
'Academic activities in full swing in AAU despite ASUU strike'
'Academic activities in full swing in AAU despite ASUU strike' Prof. Sonnie Adagbonyin, Vice Chancellor (V-C) of the state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, said academic activities in the institution are in full swing despite the ongoing national strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Adagbonyin spoke while dismissing claim that that though AAU has resumed as ordered by the Edo State Government, academic activities are not going on in the institution. He added that lecturers and students of AAU have retur…
2023: Wole Soyinka speaks on outcry against Muslim/Muslim ticket
2023: Wole Soyinka speaks on outcry against Muslim/Muslim ticket Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has condemned the outcry generated by the Muslim/Muslim Presidential ticket as Nigerians head towards general elections next year. He described the controversies surrounding the Muslim/Muslim ticket as a reflection of how the country has been fractured along religious lines and its citizens made to look different from one another right from childhood. Soyinka made the remarks on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State while moderating a lecture, the…
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