The United Bank for Africa, UBA has clinched the Most Security Conscious Bank of the year 2017 award. The coveted award which was bestowed on the Pan Africa bank by Frontpage CrimeWorld Publishers Nig. Ltd; publishers of CrimeWorld weekly newspapers and CrimeWorld monthly magazine at the occasion of the formal public presentation of the nation’s first and only wholly Security and Crime newspaper and ...

United Bank for Africa (UBA), has moved to change the face of e-banking with the introduction of Leo, the UBA Chat Banker who enables customers make  use of their social media accounts to carry out key banking  transactions. At the official launch of Leo, UBA’s Chat Banker, which  took place in Lagos last week, customers  of the bank were given ...

The Chief Executive Officer, Tony Emulelu Foundation Lagos, Mr Tony Emulelu, said on Tuesday the organisation would create over one million jobs across Africa in the next 10 years through its entrepreneurship Programme. The foundation floats the over N3 trillion entrepreneurship. Tony Elumelu Emulelu, a former Managing Director of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, said this through a tele-conference ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is inching closer to choosing financiers for the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited. The corporation’s Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, said the development held the promise of boosting petroleum products supply and distribution across the country.  Baru stated this while briefing members ...

The personal assistant to Alhaji Kunle Azeez, a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, identified only as Ganiu, has been shot dead by gunmen in the Idumota area of Lagos State. Ganiu (aka Piero), Azeez (aka Kunle Poly) and some security guards, including two policemen, were returning from a meeting around 12 midnight on Tuesday when the gunmen opened fire ...

Many months after being watch-listed, Esther Oba, ex-First Lady Patience Jonathan’s sister has been arrested by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). EFCC investigators are to interrogate her in connection with the alleged laundering of over  N359, 397,458.26 through two firms linked with the former First Lady. The companies are ...

Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has appealed the judgment of an Oyo State High Court, which nullified the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and Other Related Chieftaincy Laws in Ibadan. The appeal, filed on Monday at the Court of Appeal‘s Ibadan Judicial Division, gave 11 grounds as basis of the request. The governor described the judgment as clustered ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu; and the former Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande. Both Tinubu and Akande arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja for the meeting at about 3.50pm. They left the premises through the President’s official residence about an hour ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has questioned President Muhammadu Buhari’s competence to rule Nigeria further, advising him to forget his second term bid.  He spoke on Tuesday in a special press statement titled, ‘The Way Out: A clarion call for coalition for Nigeria Movement.’ The former President told Buhari not to test the patience of Nigerians, advising him to consider a ...

bVice President Yemi Osinbajo represented President Buhari at the inauguration of former footballer, George Weah, as the 24th president of Liberia. See more photos below     io