Founder of Diamond Bank, Pascal Gabriel Dozie, is dead. According to family sources, he died in the early hours of Tuesday, 8 April, 2025, a day to his 86th birthday. Dozie was the founder of Diamond Bank, one of the country’s most innovative banks before its merger with Access Bank. He also served as the pioneer Chairman of MTN Nigeria, playing a pivotal role in shaping the country’s mobile telecommunications revolution.
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The Chairman of the Lagos State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle Adio, popularly known as Tafa Sego, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Saturday, 5 April, 2025, after six armed men reportedly stormed his residence in Surulere, Lagos, with the intent to kill him. Fortunately, he was not at home at the time of the attack. Sources revealed that the assailants arrived his residence at Gbadamosi Close, Surulere, around 11pm on Saturday night, 5 April, 2025. Upon arrival, they encountered only the security guard, whom they tied up before ransacking the entire…
Actress Lizzy Anjorin and gospel singer, Tope Alabi, are currently at loggerheads after the singer refused to perform at a surprise birthday organized for Lizzy. The actress turned a year older and her fans’ club collaborated with her husband to surprise her with a performance from gospel artiste, Tope Alabi, whom she is said to love dearly. The gospel singer and Soji Alabi, her husband, arrived at Lizzy’s clothing store in Lagos but declined to perform when they discovered the purpose of their visit. As the news filtered on social media, social media users gave several possible reasons why the…
A huge sex-for-marks scandal has rocked Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior Secondary School in Ojodu-Berger, Lagos State, with the management of the school allegedly actively attempting to cover up the abuse of at least 11 girls by a Further Mathematics teacher, Mr. Egberongbe Adegbenga Toheeb. SaharaReporters has obtained damning audio recordings of the victims narrating their ordeal at the hands of the disgraced teacher. One of the victims detailed how the abuse began when she was in Senior School 1 and how Mr. Adegbenga manipulated her under the guise of helping with her mathematics grades. She said, “When I was in…
The attention of the Office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to another round of spurious and malicious accusations by Mr. Elisha Abbo, who unlawfully represented Adamawa North Senatorial District save a judicial intervention. He has again sought to blame the President of the Senate, His Excellency, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, for the travail of his judicial sanction that occasioned his ouster from the Senate. It is sad and regrettable that despite publicly retracting a similar allegation in 2023—after admitting that his earlier accusation was “premature and based on the available information at our disposal”—Mr. Abbo has…
All is now set for the 22nd edition of the National Sports Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State as Governor Dapo Abiodun on Thursday, 3 April, 2025, embarked on another tour of the facilities meant to host the event. The Governor, during an assessment of the work done on the facilities being prepared for athletes participating in the sports festival, including the MKO Abiola International Stadium, the Olympic-sized swimming pool, tennis courts, and handball court behind the main bowl, as well as the Alake Sports Centre, all in Abeokuta, said Ogun State is ready for the festival. According to the Governor,…
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has described recent comments by the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, on using money to drive economic productivity as not only simplistic but also hollow. The policy group noted that Obi’s position which he canvassed in a recent TV interview shows a pedestrian understanding of the national economy. In a policy statement signed by its Chairman, Dr Niyi Akinsiju, IMPI argued that economic productivity is not a stand-alone item that could be automatically fixed with a single-dose action. It said: “We do not begrudge Mr Obi…
The police in Delta state have begun an investigation after a site engineer identified as Chigozie Udalor was killed by his employees after discovering he had a lot of money in his account. In a statement released by the police in the state, the spokesperson of the command, SP Bright Edafe, said on Thursday, 12 December, 2024, one Hyacinth Nnalue reported to Akwu-kwu Igbo division that his cousin, Chigozie Udalor had been missing since Tuesday, 10 December, 2024. He also stated that the said Chigozie was his site manager at his fish pond in Bod camp Akwukwu Igbo community. Edafe…
By Musbau Rasak The news of the appointment of Bayo Bashir Ojulari as the new Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) came like a bolt of the blue. Not a few saw it coming, hence, the surprise element was highly on display when it was made public. As it is usual with this kind of high profile appointment in the Nigerian political landscape, tongues will wag, lips will talk, many will rise either for or against such pronouncement. Few have, thus, raised the issue of why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will appoint another Yoruba man…
The boxing world has been thrown into mourning following the unfortunate death of Nigerian boxer, Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, who collapsed and died during a fight at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra, Ghana, Saturday night, 29 March, 2025. Olanrewaju was competing against Ghanaian boxer, John Mbanugu, also known as “Power,” in an undercard fight of Ghana’s Professional Boxing League when the tragic incident occurred. According to Ghana’s reliable news website, Yen.com, Olanrewaju suddenly lost balance and collapsed to the canvas during the bout, prompting the referee to immediately stop the fight and call for medical assistance. Despite frantic efforts by…