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In the last 20 years, she has been a banking executive and an investment adviser across retail banking, wealth management, consulting and financial advisory. She is an executive director (retail banking) at Diamond Bank Plc She is the chairperson of the executive council of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), a Nigerian non-profit organisation founded in 2001 by 13 women and one man who identified a serious issue concerning women in the workplace and in business, particularly in the areas of leadership capacity building and avenues for networking for growth. Mrs. Ahmad’s professional banking experience traverses the NAL Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc. A member of the Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, CAIA Associations, Mrs. Ahmad was until her appointment in charge of the Consumer Banking Division at Diamond Bank Plc, covering the consumer banking, privilege banking, retail assets chains. A hold...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the arrest of a police officer, Bello Abubakar, listed as the first prosecution witness in the case of a Nigerian film maker, Olajide Kazeem, better known as Seun Egbegbe, who was charged with serial frauds involving N39, 098,100, $90,000 and £12,550.  The trial judge in the case, Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, said on Thursday that Abubakar must be produced before her on October 11 to continue his testimony.  The judge had earlier issued a bench warrant against Abubakar, ordering that he must be in court on Thursday.  The police officer, however, failed to appear, to the judge’s displeasure.  The police prosecutor, Innocent Anyigor, told the judge that Abubakar had gone out of jurisdiction, adding that all his efforts to bring him to court on Thursday failed.  Justice Oguntoyinbo berated the police prosecutor for the poor handling of the case, which had been filed before her since February. She said the witn...

The three-year-old marriage between a popular radio presenter, Omotoke Makinwa and her estranged husband, Maje Ayida has been dissolved..  An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved the union, citing husband’s adulterous lifestyle. She had on March 9, 2016, asked the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that the husband committed adultery.  Justice Morenike Obadina, while delivering judgment held that Ayida filed an answer to the petition but did not give oral evidence in support of it.  She said the position of the law was settled as pleadings did not amount to evidence. “Pleadings on which no evidence was led are deemed abandoned. Therefore, Ayida’s evidence is deemed abandoned.  The effect being that the petitioner’s evidence is unchallenged and uncontroverted,’’ she ruled. The judge said the issue of cruelty which the petitioner (Makinwa) relied on was established because of the “mental and emotional stress” she was subjected to by h...

Nelly, the multi-platinum-selling hip-hop star, has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman, TMZ reports.  The 42-year-old from Austin, Texas, whose real name is Cornell Haynes, is currently on tour with country band Florida Georgia Line.  The alleged incident occurred early this morning on the rapper's tour bus in the Washington state area, and he was arrested on second degree rape charges at around 7am.  According to reports, the rapper, who is supposed to be performing in Ridgefield, Washington tonight, is still in police custody.  This isn't Haynes's first run-in with the law: the Grammy Award winner was arrested in 2015 in Tennessee on felony drug charges, while in 2012, authorities discovered marijuana, heroin and a loaded gun on his tour bus at a border patrol checkpoint in west Texas.  Haynes first shot to fame with the release of his album Country Grammar in 2000. The record has sold 8.4 million copies in the USA and reached number one in...

Recently, there was a case of  a pregnant lady who was brutally abused by her baby daddy that went viral, while weighing into Tonto Dikeh’s marital woes and Tiwa Savage’s viral domestic gender inequality, Nigerian investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has reacted to all them in a post. She also revealed she was also brutalized when she was 9 months pregnant – She wrote; I was 9mos pregnant too with Lade in 1991 beaten up like this and bloodied. My baby had to be induced and forcibly taken out in the delivery room. Not before I struck back. Thank u officer Ronald Roberts for the gun protection idea. It worked! Ladies, better get your back up ready…. Oh yeah, I forgot the man is the head of the house abi. Lade will be 26yo next month and to this day, his dad tells him I inflicted bruises on myself in a 2yr abusive relationship which broke my engagement and I never married in my life. Thank God for officer Robert’s dated police reports I can show my now adul...

Super Eagles becomes first African team to qualify for 2018 World Cup .

On the show, the singer spoke on gender discrimination in the society. She said: It’s real. I’m not going to say I’m completely comfortable with it but it is what it is.  You have to deal with it. If it means you have to work 10 times harder than your male counterparts, don’t complain about it, do what you have to do. We all celebrate people like Oprah and Mo Abudu and we don’t actually realise what they have to do to get to that point.  They probably had to do 20 times (more) than their male counterparts. Once you get there, you don’t complain about how you get there. So, whatever it is you have to do as a female, you just have to get it done. I know I’ll (ruffle) a few feathers but I also don’t think men and women are equal. I don’t think that’s how God created us… especially in the household anyway.  So I think as females… yeah we can be strong in our career, but when we are home we have to realise that the man is the head of the house.” She also had other thi...

A Nigerian couple identified as Mr. and Mrs. Joseph, reportedly welcomed a set of twins after 27 years of marriage, and 7 years of post-menopause. Olupage Photography, who shared photo the 57-year-old lady with her twins, wrote; “At age 57, …27years of waiting in marriage, …7 years post-menopause…Jesus wouldn’t let down their faith, He wouldn’t close their case. He turned their mourning into dancing. He gave them the sweet song of victory.  He gave them two bouncing miracle babies- a boy and a girl. We join the Josephs in singing His praises to the ends of the earth, cos He’s the God of awesome wonders- ONISE IYANU! If He could do it for Mummy and Daddy Joseph, He will do it for you too. Don’t give up on your most holy faith. Praise Him in advance. Give Him an upfront heartfelt worship. …Onise Iyanu You are the God of awesome wonders I’ve tasted of Your power Onise Iyanu You have shown me so much mercy Much more than I deserve My eyes have seen, my ears hav...

Talking about his marriage in a chat with Saturday Beats, the singer said that it always upsets him when he hears that lack of s§x leads to the failure of some marriages in Nigeria.  Using himself as an example, he said that he can never deprive his wife of s§x and advised other married men to emulate him. He said, “Marriage is something that you have to be very diplomatic about.  You have to be very careful and know what you are doing because it has its ups and downs. No marriage is perfect. Some people think that marriage is all about money but it is not.  It takes God and the couple to understand each other. Some people talk about cheating in marriage and that is why I sang in my song, ‘Igbeyawo,’ that women should not starve their husband of s§x. If you do that, it would bring problems in your home.  I don’t want lack of s§x to be a problem in my marriage. Any time my wife wants to have s§x, I would always give it to her, at any time.  “S§x shoul...

Actress Caroline Danjuma has come out to react to the viral claim that late Davido's friend, Tagbo, was the father of her last child. Reacting to the news in an interview with SDK, Caroline said: . "I met Tagbo when i was legally divorced and out of My ex' house to start a new life. Yes we were dating. My daughter is 3 years old and I only met Tagbo last year, so its not possible that tagbo is the father of Elizabeth. Let us leave sentiments aside, trying to blackmail me to keep quiet will not work or change anything. We need justice for Tagbo. I contacted someone who remembers seeing davido and tagbo and DNA and remembers there was a fight. . This person also told me there was a bet, the same thing my neighbour said. And Tagbo drank 30 shots of tequila and got intoxicated and wanted to drive his car but Davido refused and said Tagbo should drive with him. . . That was what i heard and that they drove to G12 beach and got out leaving Tagbo in the ca...

The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to remove himself as the Minister of Petroleum Resources and appoint a successor that can be accountable for the nation’s oil industry.  He wrote on his Facebook; President Buhari should disengage from being a Petroleum Minister and appoint a substantive minister whom the nation can hold accountable to the happenings in the nation oil industry.The President position as a minister can drag him into issues in the oil sector of which he has limited time to attend to.A broom immersed in oil cannot sweep clean.

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is currently in a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Since the leaked letter to the President, this is the first one-on-one meeting between the President and the Minister. Kachikwu had written to Buhari on the conduct of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru. The Minister arrived the Presidential Villa at about 11.40am for the meeting.

Singer Celine Dion has pledged to donate proceeds from her concert at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace, to the families of victims of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival shooting, which took place on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. An emotional Celine Dion returned to the stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, two days after the US suffered the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.   She told the crowd proceeds from the night would go to the victims of Sunday's shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival and their families. " Tonight is very different. After Sunday night's incredibly tragic event, all of us here find ourselves asking a similar question. For you, it's, 'Do we still go to Celine's show on Tuesday night, only two days after the nightmare?' For me, it's, 'Can I still do my show? Should I still do my show only two days after the nightmare?' These are difficult questions" she said.  Dion said she...

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Some members of the Ajegunle Baptist Church, Agbowo, Ibadan locked the church last sunday, over allegations that the pastor was embezzling funds and abusing his office. Other members who were determined to worship, held the Sunday service outside the church’s gate. The disgruntled members under a group called “Concerned Members”, are insisting that church pastor, Reverend Oyewole Oyekan leaves the church on allegations of unilaterally running the financial affairs of the church and banking the church’s money to the tune of over N4 million in his personal account. “Our pastor has turned himself to the treasurer and financial secretary of the church, whereas we employed him. He spends our money singlehandedly without getting clearance from the financial secretary or church council. He cornered the account of the school for five years. When the school account of the school had problem, he started banking the school money in his personal account to the tune of over N4 million. Even the c...

In a new video released online, former militant leader, Asari Dokubo, said that the man who spoke to Nigerians on October 1st is a cloned version of President Buhari. In the video, Asari said "A lot of people have been wishing me happy Independence but I told them not to, because I’m not a Nigerian.  So this man they have in Aso Rock was speaking, even from his voice, you will know that he was cloned. You know that there is this thing called cloning, most western judo-Christian country pretend to say they banned human cloning except for the purpose of research into health and to save life.  So we will not be surprised if they did some sort of cloning in all the period this man was incubating in Abuja House in London. The way he was talking, you will notice that he was trying to mimic the original one but he didn’t succeed, we were not deceived.”

She wrote;  Davido where is Tagbo .... he was with you and ur crew last night ... you all wore face cap to hide your identities after he died in ur car.. u dumped him at general hospital and ran away ... the law must play its role this time .. you all better provide Tagbo alive .. davidoofficial. After you all abandoned him at general hospital you continued you stupid grooving at DNA and had the nerves to promote ur show .. this ain't no ordinary boy you can intimidate his family ... we need you to tell us how he died in ur car and why u ran away.. the police and the hospital confirmed u all ran away .. if u think ur money can save u , u just met ur match . Promise .

Nigeria is a country situated in the western part of Africa. Colonized by Britain in the 18th century, the country is home to approximately 180 million people of over 500 ethnic groups with diverse cultures and traditions. Prime among the ethnic groups are the Hausa tribe (primarily dominants of the Northern region), the Yoruba tribe (inhabitants of the Western region) and the Igbo tribe (stretched out in the Eastern and Southern region). Prior to the almagamation of the mineral-filled territory in 1914, pre-colonial Nigeria was an arena of various kingdoms and tribal states such as the Kingdoms of Ife & Oyo, Kingdom of Nri, Fulani Empire (also known as the Sokoto Caliphate), Kingdom of Nri, etc. The merger of the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria (then under the rule of the British Empire) was a bid for the unification of the various tribes and kingdoms occupying the territory. Administrative and legal governance were held by the British Empire and institu...

In a statement released by her chief press secretary Belema, Meshack-Hart, Mrs Jonathan said Magu was being used to destroy the image of her family because of her role in the 2015 elections in which she campaigned against President Buhari. According to Mrs Jonathan, US president, Donald Trump, is not using the law enforcement agents against former first lady, Michelle Obama, despite the fact that she campaigned against him during their last election. The statement in part reads; “We believe that she is being systematically persecuted and punished because of her unflinching support for her husband during the 2015 elections. President Buhari should be reminded that his wife also supported him in all the elections he contested against her husband, former President Jonathan, but Dr. Jonathan did not at any point in time, carry out personal vendetta or go after Buhari’s wife. That is the standard practice in all democracies around the world. For instance, Michelle Obama campaigne...