Kunle Awosika

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has commended Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) for its contribution to infrastructure development and growth of trade in the 19 countries where it operates, which is why the bank remains its preferred partner for the Lagos International Trade Fair (LITF).

A liar is always lavish of oaths and shorn of repute. Like the publisher of the Peoples Gazette, an online news medium, he resorts to elaborate invention, doctoring falsehood to resound as feeble truth, simply because reality is neither ghoulish nor scandalous enough.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday November 15, 2021 flagged-off a nationwide risk assessment of Non-profit Organizations.

Another World Kindness Day, marked globally on 13th November, is here. Not as the lone day reserved for humanity to show kindness, but, according to www.inspirekindness.com, a day to remind humanity “of the importance of being kind” and this is about being kind on a daily and ongoing basis. It continues: “the purpose of [the] day… is to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together. This understanding has the power to bridge the gap between nations.” Inspire Kindness shares the theme for this year’s World Kindness Day as: “The world we make – inspire kindness.”

The Managing Director/CEO of Heritage Bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo, has expressed concerns over the high wheat import bill of Nigeria, noting that it was for this reason the bank was collaborating with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to adopt a novel approach to boost local production capacity.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the United Nations over what it described as a vicious assault on Justice Mary Odili.

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, has been drawn to a report captioned, EFCC whistle-blower app stalls at 15,000 downloads, critics allege data theft, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of Tuesday November 9, 2021, alleging dissatisfaction by “users” and low downloads of the Commission’s whistle-blower App, Eagle Eye, among others.

Nigeria’s Fuji legend, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, has reacted to an allegation he refused to refund payment for a show he didn’t attend in the US.

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has selected 4,949 entrepreneurs from across Africa for its 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme.

Victor Okolo, the Managing Director/CEO of Eroton Exploration and Production Company Limited, one of Nigeria’s indigenous oil companies, is dead.