President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new management team for the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Mr. Gbenga Alade was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of AMCON. Alade succeeds Ahmed Kuru, who assumed office in August 2015. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, announced the appointments in a statement he signed on Thursday, Feb. 22. Tinubu also appointed the three other executive directors, pending their confirmation by the …
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two herbalists, Moses Abidemi and Oluwo Samuel Monday as well as two alleged priests of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Prophet Peter Oluwalolese and Prophet Jamiu Yusuf, over the killing of one Sulaimon Adijat, aged 35, for money ritual purposes. Three other suspects, Akinwunmi Ifatosin, Sherifff Agbai and Osojieahen Alioneitouria, who are both from Uromi in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, were also arrested for the murder. Parading the …
Lionel Messi has become the first footballer to win The Best FIFA Men’s Player award three times. The Argentine superstar, 36, was confirmed as the 2023 winner at The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony in London on Monday, January 15. Messi was recognised for his achievements, having come out on top in the voting ahead of finalists Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe. However, Messi was not present at the party as he was with his …
A secondary school student, Folorunsho Ariyo, who was kidnapped in the Dutse axis of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has been killed by her abductors. LIB reported that gunmen invaded Sagwari Layout Estate in Dutse on Sunday, January 7, 2024, and kidnapped ten residents, including Miss Ariyo, her mother and three siblings. It was gathered that Folorunsho and Nabeeeha Al-kadriyar’s remains were among four corpses of kidnapped victims dumped at Ida, near Ushafa in Bwari Area Council. …
The death toll from the building collapse at Ebute Meta, Lagos State, has increased to three. The building collapsed on Friday morning, Dec. 22, on Herbert Marculley Way, Ebute Meta. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the territorial coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the death toll to newsmen in Lagos. The body of a 12-year-old boy and the bodies of two adults —a male and a female— were recovered from the rubble of the two-storey building. Farinloye added that …
The gunman who killed three people at the University of Nevada on Wednesday, December 6, was a 67-year-old professor who had been rejected for a job at the college. His failed job application was reported by 8 News Now, with sources telling the site that he may also have had connections to a person who works on campus. The three people who died have not been named. A fourth victim was shot but is in stable …