December 5, 2019

Standard Alliance Gets New Directors

December 5, 2019 11:07 am

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has approved the appointment of Richard Ododo as the managing director, Odusi Niyi as the executive director and Haruna Mohammed and Uzoma Igbonwa as the non-executive directors of Standard Alliance Insurance Plc.

According to the company, the directors are coming on board with a vibrant enterprising mind-set coming from the experience of driving entrepreneurship, diversified background in banking and international equity market.

Ododo is an insurer with over 30 years’ experience in the industry cutting across various functional areas specifically insurance brokerage, underwriting and risk management.

Odusi, is an insurer who possesses extensive skills …

John Dumelo Calls For Legalisation Of Polygamy In Ghana

December 5, 2019 11:06 am

Polygamy is a phenomenon often associated with African people. In almost all African societies, polygamy is an acceptable and valid form of marriage – in fact, monogamy was once associated with people of lower social status.

Award-winning Ghanaian actor John Dumelo has now opined that polygamy should be legalised in Ghana.

The screen star cum politician is of the opinion that most men have side chicks and have affairs outside their marriages as such the ordinance law against polygamy needs to be repealed.

Dumelo is not only campaigning for men

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Burna Boy Tops 2019 Most Watched YouTube Music Videos

December 5, 2019 11:06 am

Popular streaming platform, YouTube has today, November 5 released its YouTube Rewind list. The list celebrates the biggest moments on YouTube from 2019.

The list came in two parts, the top trending videos in Nigeria for 2019 as well as the top trending music videos for the year.

Music rave of the moment, Burna Boy led the pack with his Zlatan Ibile assisted song, “Killin Dem” from his album, “African Giant”.

Davido’s hit song, “Blow My Mind” that has help from international singer, Chris Brown came in at second place while Rudeboy of the defunct music duo, PSquare closed

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Increasing Fires Raise Insurers’ Claims Payment To ₦27bn

December 5, 2019 11:01 am

Rising cases of fire outbreaks in major markets across the country has left the country with huge human and material casualties running into several billions in the last three months of 2019, with experts stressing it could further balloon the Nigerian insurers claims payment by the end of the year.

Insurance and loss adjusting experts have however estimated that over N120 billion worth of goods and properties may have been lost to these recent fire incidences in the country with traders and business owners bearing the brunt of such circumstances groaning under the heavy weight of loss and unpaid …

Soyinka: Disobedience To Court Order Is Thuggery

December 5, 2019 7:19 am

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has excoriated the Buhari administration for its serial disobedience to court orders, which he likened to thuggery.

Soyinka, in a statement obtained by THISDAY wednesday, also lampooned the Department of State Services (DSS) for its continued refusal to release rights activist and Coordinator of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, despite being granted bail by the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja.

He dismissed as “childish pretext” the excuses DSS had been proffering to keep Sowore in detention.
The laureate said he could not keep quiet and watch the degradation of the judiciary in which he had …

PDP To APC: Your Coup Against Democracy Can’t Stand

December 5, 2019 7:18 am

The war of words between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) continued wednesday with the opposition party accusing the ruling party of plotting a coup against democracy in Nigeria.

The PDP said it would not allow the coup to stand, in spite of the alleged orchestration of violence, killings and seizure of electoral processes by the APC.

It added that no amount of blackmail, innuendos, threats and direct attacks by the APC would make it to drop its demands for electoral reforms that would return the country to the democratic practice that engenders respect for …

Edo Crisis Worsens As Assembly Declares 12 Seats Vacant

December 5, 2019 7:18 am

The crisis in Edo State House of Assembly worsened wednesday as the seats of 12 members-elect, who have failed to present themselves for inauguration, as well as two others, who didn’t meet mandatory sitting requirement to continue as members of the House, were declared vacant.

Speaking with journalists, Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Yekini Idiaye, representing Akoko Edo State Constituency I, said the resolution was reached at a plenary of the Assembly wednesday.

The Assembly has been in crisis as a result of a dispute between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. …

Court Saves 21 States Billions, AGF To Recover Govs Pension

December 5, 2019 7:17 am

Akpabio, Amaechi, Shettima, Goje, 10 others affected
Fashola, Sylva, Aregbesola yet to draw benefits

For 21 states with pension laws stipulating post-office benefits running into billions of naira for their former governors and deputies, it was a sigh of relief wednesday as the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, to recover all funds paid as pension to erstwhile state chief executives, who are also serving in the National Assembly or as ministers.

The court, presided over by Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, while delivering judgment in a …

Eight Years Of Safe Motherhood Initiative

December 5, 2019 7:16 am

Uchechukwu Nnaike highlights the efforts of an indigenous oil and gas firm to reduce the maternal and child mortality rate in the country and the progress made so far

If the reports of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG3) and World Health Organisation (WHO) on the good health and child and maternal mortality rates are to be taken seriously, initiatives that support women of childbearing age to safely deliver their babies must be emulated not only by the government, but also by corporate institutions in Nigeria.

According to a 2010 report by the WHO, the infant mortality rate in …

Justice Ministry Has No Allocation for Constituency Project

December 5, 2019 7:14 am

The Federal Ministry of Justice wednesday stated that it has zero allocation for alleged constituency or zonal intervention projects in the 2019 approved budget.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry and Solicitor General of the Federation (SGF), Dayo Apata SAN, made the clarification in a statement issued to newsmen by Dr. Umar Gwandu, media aide to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. The SGF maintained that the clarification, which was contained in a letter dated December 3, 2019, and addressed to the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), was necessary …

Reps Raise 2020 Budget To ₦10.6trn From ₦10.33trn

December 5, 2019 7:13 am

According to NAN the House of Representatives has raised the 2020 Appropriation Bill from ₦10.33 trillion to about ₦10.6 trillion.

The new figure has been proposed by the House Committee on Finance, which is scheduled to lay its report on the national budget at the plenary today (Wednesday).

The committee has recommended a total budget sum of N10,594,362,364,830.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on October 8, 2019, presented the appropriation bill to a joint session of the National Assembly.

Both the executive and the legislature plan to pass the bill …