By Taofik Salako The boardroom tussle, board and management changes and reinstatement, the multi-billion naira shares acquisition and the didactics of largest single individual shareholder and majority or controlling shareholders at Nigeria’s oldest financial services group-FBN Holdings (FBNH) Plc, were some of the highpoints of corporate governance issues in 2021. FBN Holdings, the holding company […]
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An ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Mohammed Saleh, and some supporters of former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, under the aegis of The Disciples of Jagaban, on Saturday began mobilising support for Tinubu’s rumoured presidential ambition. They also sensitised voters in the north to the need to register and vote in 2023. Saleh, […]
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The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, speaks with Friday Olokor about his ordeal and that of his wife in detention and the refusal of government agencies to release their passports, among other issues What were the major issues during your detention? Let me start by thanking […]
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Sylvester This is the million naira question. By Tunji Adegboyega So much has been said and written about the untimely death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, a Junior Secondary School 2 (JSS) student of Dowen College, in eyebrow Lekki axis of Lagos State, and we are still going to hear more because the story is still […]
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo by Matt Dunham / Pool / AFP) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was left reeling on Sunday after his Brexit minister resigned, ending a difficult week during which his Conservative party suffered a humiliating defeat in a local by-election and his own MPs rebelled over new coronavirus curbs. David […]
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Photo: NAN By Jerome-Mario Utomi With the amendment of the Electoral Act that presently accommodates the electronic transmission of results, one can say that as a nation, we have made some political/electoral gains. However, by the report put together by the Centre For Value in Leadership (CVL), Lagos in partnership with the Policy and Legal […]
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Journalists By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is this friend of mine, a very evil wag named Vitone, who keeps stressing that journalists must be made to wear uniforms like policemen. My friend argues that the role of journalists as societal watchdogs places them on the same pedestal as the police. He then goes ahead to […]
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A man cleanes mud from his house after it was hit by flood in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 19 , 2021. (Photo by Arif Kartono / AFP) Over 29,000 people were evacuated throughout Malaysia on Sunday as the country faces some of its worst flooding in years. The tropical Southeast Asian nation often sees […]
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A resident bathes her child next to their destroyed house in Carcar, Philippines’ Cebu province on December 18, 2021, days after Super Typhoon Rai hit the city. (Photo by Victor Kintanar / AFP) More than 90 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, official tallies showed Sunday, as […]
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In this picture taken on December 18, 2021, Sikh youths gather outside the Teja Singh Samundri Hall after a man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) A man was beaten to death in India for allegedly […]
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