Author: Vincent Osuwo

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), the banking subsidiary of Gauranty Trust Holding Company Plc, has announced July 12, 2023, as the date for the release of the new and updated version of the GTWorld Mobile Banking App to the Play Store and App Store. According to the leading African bank, the release of the new and updated version of the app “means that when you launch the GTWorld Mobile Banking App, you will see a newly designed interface if you have App Updates set on automatic. “However, if App Update is not set to automatic on your mobile device, you will…

The Lagos State Government has stated its readiness to implement the state’s street trading laws and also clamp down on street trading on the state highways and other major streets in Lagos. This announcement was made by the Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye, at the Agency’s headquarters in Bolade Oshodi, where he stated the State Government’s commitment to ensuring the safety and security of Lagosians while maintaining sanity on the highways. According to him, “It is no longer news to anyone that the closure of the Eko Bridge was as a result of illegal street trading…

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of seven police officers over misconduct and abuse of office. In a statement released on Sunday by the commission’s spokesperson, the decision was taken at the 21st plenary of the commission which was presided over by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi on behalf of the PSC Chairman, Solomon Arase. Besides the dismissal of the senior officers, nine other officers were reduced in rank, including a Commissioner of Police, Ani said. Prison warder receives N1m to aid Lagos inmates escape “The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of three senior Police officers over…

Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will name 21 new cardinals from throughout the world by the end of September. Following his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace on Saint Peter’s Square, the Pope said the Cardinal’s “provenance expresses the universality of the Church that continues to proclaim God’s merciful love to all people on earth”. The solemn council will be the ninth for the election of cardinals under Pope Francis, who is in his tenth year as Pope. Osinbajo honoured in thanksgiving for meritorious national service The immediate past Vice President of Nigeria,…

No fewer than 4,560 kilograms of skunk have been seized by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) during a raid in Lagos, Adamawa and Osun states. NDLEA agents also stormed a skucchies factory in Ogun and apprehended four members of a drug gang, including two church leaders, a female courier company employee, and another lady involved in the trafficking of the dangerous narcotic fentanyl in Delta. The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the arrest, said “The bust of the fentanyl cartel operating from Warri, Delta state is coming barely a month after two members of…

A bloody attack by unknown gunmen on Adogo Ugbaam, Akpuuna, and Diom communities in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State has reportedly left no fewer than 27 people dead and several others with life-threatening injuries. The armed men had, on Friday night, reportedly attacked a funeral at the Adogo Ugbaam community, where three mourners were killed. Another gang also raided Akpuuna and Diom villages on Saturday morning at about 11 a.m., killing 24 people. Unknown gunmen kidnap APC chairman in Ekiti According to a local, the gunmen invaded the villages on motorbikes, killing three mourners at Adogo Ugbaam village…

Paul Omotosho, the Ekiti State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reportedly been kidnapped by yet-to-be identified gunmen. Omotosho was said to have been kidnapped Saturday evening along the Agbado-Imesi-Ekiti road in the state’s Gbonyin Local Government Area. The chairman, who hails from Imesi-ile, was on his way to his hometown when gunmen ambushed his vehicle and whisked him away into the bush. Sit-at-home enforcers kill two in Imo Confirming the kidnap, Party spokesman Segun Dipe says he was on his way to his country home, Imesi-ile, from Ado-Ekiti when he was abducted Saturday evening. “Yes, our chairman…

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has restrained the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), the  Police, State Security Service (SSS) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) from arresting the former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, members of his family as well as his appointees.  The order was issued in response to PCACC’s summons to Ganduje to respond to inquiries about the infamous “dollar videos” reported by Daily Nigerian in October 2018. Ganduje was seen in the videos shoving bundles of money alleged to be bribes into his pockets. Kano State govt goes after…

Mr. Romanus Ejikeme, the father of Mmesoma Joy Ejikeme-the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate who forged her result, has tendered an unreserved apology to JAMB and Nigerians at large saying his daughter lied to him initially. Recall that Mr. Ejikeme had earlier accused JAMB of pulling his daughter down. Romanus admitted that he didn’t know where his daughter registered for the examination but he gave her the money for the registration. JAMB vows to sanitize public examination sector after Mmesoma saga Chronicle NG earlier reported that the eight-man panel of inquiry set up by the Anambra state governor,…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that it will not relent in its efforts to sanitize the nation’s public examination sector. This was stated in a July 8, 2023, statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Acting Director, PAP. The statement comes on the heels of the report by the Anambra State Government’s panel on the JAMB score saga involving Miss. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma. Earlier, Chronicle NG reported that, according to the committee’s report, Mmesoma confessed to the crime of having fraudulently falsified her JAMB score. In a swift reaction to the report of the Committee headed by…