Shareholders of Zenith Bank Plc on Tuesday approved the proposed final dividend payment of ₦8.75 per share, bringing the total dividend for the 2025 financial year to ₦10.00 per share, with a total value of ₦410.69 billion. The approval was given at the 35th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the
.As Marwa hosts Ghanaian counterpart on study tour of NDLEA operational model The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has said that the new partnership between the Agency and the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) of Ghana should serve as
The Federal Capital Territory High Court on Monday remanded a former Syke bank Chairman, Tunde Ayeni in Kuje Corrections facility, pending the determination of his bail application. Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie gave the order after Ayeni‘s counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN asked for a short date for defence to move the bail
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has called for collaboration between the media and security agencies to ensure a media-friendly environment. Idris made the call on Monday in Abuja at an inter-ministerial press conference in commemoration of the 2026 World Press Freedom Day. The theme of
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom says it has apprehended 25 persons over suspected involvement in cultism at Oku Abak in Abak Local Government Area. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Timfon John, disclosed this in a statement in Uyo on Monday. John said that at about 9.19p.m on Sunday,
The strike action embarked upon by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) has paralysed academic and administrative activities at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the JAC of SSANU
Nigeria has intensified diplomatic engagement with South Africa over renewed anti-foreigner demonstrations, pressing for stronger protections for its citizens and the urgent rollout of a bilateral mechanism aimed at detecting and defusing tensions before they spiral. The move followed the summoning of South Africa’s Acting High Commissioner to the Ministry
A 44-year-old woman, Zainab Isah on Monday told a Shari’a court I sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna that she had nowhere to go after her divorce from her husband, Alhaji Abdulhamid. She told the court that Abdulhamid married her when she was 14. ”I have been married to him for
The ECOWAS Parliament has called on regional leaders to urgently confront the sub-region’s multifaceted challenges of rising insecurity, fragile democracy and economic stagnation toward deepening integration and economic growth. The Speaker of the Parliament, Memounatou Ibrahima, made the appeal, while declaring open the two-week 2026 First Ordinary Session of the
An 83-year-old grandfather, Pa John Ofiel and a 78-year-old grandpa, Ogunjobi Samuel were among suspects arrested in ongoing nationwide crackdown on illicit drug traffickers and dealers by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Pa Ofiel was nabbed by NDLEA officers on Tuesday 28th April 2026 during a