ITMB PLC bags 2020 Best Mortgage Bank Award

Infinity Trust Mortgage Bank Plc, a leading Nigerian Mortgage Bank, has won the 2020 Global Banking and Finance Awards. This was announced in a letter confirming the Bank as winner of the 2020 Global Banking and Finance Awards winners ; Best Mortgage Bank in Nigeria category. The awards, which was published in the website of the Magazine, was based on the performances of banks in their respective regions and countries ITMB PLC is the first mortgage bank in Nigeria to win this prestigious award. Global Banking and Finance Awards was…

6TH PLATEAU MAN OF THE YEAR AWARDS : Call for Nomination

The Plateau Man of the Year Awards calls for Nominations and Voting into its various categories for the Plateau Man of the Year Awards 2020, 6th Edition. Amb.Cletus Akhimien, the Convener and Executive Director, COA Media, assured that this 6th Edition will offer a lot as improvements have been made to make the event more colourful. He said plans were at advanced stage to ensure a smooth and successful event. Amb. Cletus also reiterated that Residents of Plateau and Nigerians were looking forward to see ONE ON ONE those to…

Nine Nigerians contesting in Tuesday’s U.S. elections

No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.   Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state and local levels. NAN reports that besides the presidential election, governorship polls are holding in 11 states and two territories, in addition to other state and local elections. Congressional elections are also holding on Tuesday with all the 435 seats in the U.S. House…

LMDF doles out Scholarship, grants for Women

The Annual Lateefah Moyosore Durosinmi Foundation (LMDF) will on Saturday Nov. 7, give out 42 new scholarship awards, six further scholarship supports to students as well as grants to 28 women in small scale business. The chairperson of the Foundation, Prof. Fatimah Abdulkareem stated this in a statement announcing the seventh edition of the award. She said all the beneficiaries are selected from the Six South West Zone States and Ife Central Local Government in Osun state. With the 2020 awards, the Foundation would have given out 159 scholarships to…

APC Chieftain, lawyers kick, as Buhari’s Minister,Jeddy Agba detains Journalist for 3 weeks

A 72-year old Nigerian Journalist, Pa. Oga Tom Uhia, has been kept under secret detention by the Nigeria Police for three weeks. Pa. Uhia’s arrest and detention, it was gathered, was ordered by the Nigeria’s Minister of State for Power, Chief Goddy Jeddy Agba, over a publication in the July 2020 edition of Power Steering Magazine, owned by the detained Journalist. Despite several interventions from the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), both from the National Secretariat and the FCT Council, with series of visits to the Honourable Minister, the security…

Senate faults Fashola’s claims on roads in Benue state

The Nigeria Senate has frown at a statement credited to Minister of Works ,Babatunde Raji Fashola,that the National Assembly should be held responsible for the dilapidated state of Federal roads in Benue State, described it as a “fallacy of the highest order”. Minister allegedly made the allegation in his office in Abuja during a courtesy call by retired Generals and ‘other leaders of thought’ from Benue South Senatorial District led by Air Vice Marshal Morgan Monday, who came to complain about the deplorable state of roads in the senatorial district.…