Africa Fin-Tech Foundry is completely set to host the largest fin-tech conference in West Africa with Access Bank as its major sponsor. The organization and its partners said this last week Tuesday during an all-important press conference held at Victoria Island, Lagos. The event is specially carved out to achieve maximum tech-reorientation, influence, coupled with the needed spur for young startup players in Africa’s tech-world. ‘’Disrupt 2019’’ comes with the theme: Building a sustainable tech economy; with subthemes which center around how data has become the new gold and how it enables the use of AI, Robotics, Analytics and…
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A group of ex-students of University of Benin, under the aegies of ‘Concerned UNIBEN Alumni’ took to the streets of Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Wednesday, to register its displeasure over the killing of Mr Kolade Johnson, an alumnus of the University of Benin who was killed by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives, on Sunday, in Lagos. The protest kicked-off at the NNP mega station Sapele Road in Benin metropolis with some UNIBEN Alumni who trooped out in thousands in solidarity of their slain friend and comrade. The alumni group barricaded some entrances and connecting junctions in Benin…
The renewed xenophobic attack in South Africa; where aliens of different national identities are being murdered and maimed has taken a new twist in Zimbabwe. MERIDIAN SPY has reliably gathered that Zimbabweans have taken a lethal approach by burning down all South African registered trucks at Beit-Bridge border as a revenge for their brothers and sister who have been ruthlessly murdered in Xenophobic attacks by the South African people. Beit-Bridge metro police spokesperson Senior Superintendent, Morgan Mahamba, said about 1,500 people took part in the represal revolt. The angry mob barricaded Beit-Bridge town with rocks and other objects. Beitbridge is…
Luxembourg is set to become the world’s first country to make all of its public transportation free. The newly re-elected prime minister Xavier Bettel, and the coalition government have announced that they will lift all fares on trains, trams and buses next summer. The new move hopes to alleviate some of the worst traffic congestion in the world. Landlocked by Belgium, Germany and France, Luxembourg, has more than 400,000 commuters travelling in to work from neighboring countries. Latest reports indicate that Luxembourg started offering free transportation to everyone under the age of 20 in 2019. Available records also showed that…
The governorship candidate of the African Action Congress in Rivers State, Biokpomabo Awara, has refuted claims by his former running mate, Akpo Yeeh, that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, compelled them to sign letters of resignation. Awara stated this in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. He said that Yeeh’s allegations against the minister were fabricated. He noted that the Support his party got from Amaechie and the All Progressive Congress was unconditional. Awara, also said he was offered 3bn by Rivers State Government to drop his ambition of which he vehemently declined. He said: “I made several attempts to reach my…
The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressive Congress , APC, has rejected the March 28 date fixed by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for supplementary poll in the State. Ahmed Lawal, the APC Organizing Secretary, made the party’s stance known during an interview on Tuesday with NAN in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. According to Lawal, INEC didn’t consult the party before fixing the new date. He also said there was a contray information about the date of the supplementary polls in the state. “INEC failed to consult with political parties involved in this election before going ahead to…
Dr Ifeanyi Ubah a senator who would be representing the people of Anambra south in the 9th Assembly has left his party, Young Peoples Party (YPP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC), MERIDIAN SPY can reliably report. The National Chairman of the APC Mr Adams Oshiomhole announced Uba’s defection from YPP to APC at a meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with APC senators-elect in Aso Rock on Monday night. This is coming barely four days after Dr Ubah denied plans to dump the party for any other party. At a press conference on Friday, Ubah had said: “I am not…
A woman, Ibukun Adebayo is fighting for her life in a hospital after being allegedly hacked with a cutlass by her estranged husband, Kehinde Adebayo. Kehinde, it was gathered, accused his wife of engaging in extra-marital affairs with men. The attack has left Ibukun with severe injuries on her face and other parts of her body. The incident happened at about 8pm on February 28 in the Saraki area of Adigbe in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The situation allegedly worsened after Kehinde allegedly beat up Ibukun in a house she built forcing her to move out to a…
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has reacted to tribunal ruling sacking him as governor of the state. An Osun governorship tribunal had on Friday sacked him and declared Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, winner of the last governorship election in the state. Reacting, Oyetola vowed to challenge the ruling of tribunal at the Appeal Court. A statement by Wole Oyebamiji, Secretary to the State Government of Osun, said the judgment of the election tribunal had been put on appeal. Oyetola expressed hope that “justice would prevail at last.” He also disclosed that law enforcement agencies…
The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has declared Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the controversial state election. The tribunal also declared the September 27 rerun election in the state illegal. The three-man panel of the Tribunal gave the judgement on Friday following the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleka against the All Progressives Congress, APC and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola. The Tribunal also ruled that PDP and Adeleke proved that it was the state Returning Officer who cancelled the results in 7 Polling Units, adding that the…
A medical doctor at a public hospital in Sokoto State, Tijjani Faruk, has thrown the Sokoto medical community into grief after confessing to raping a married woman after administering sedative injection on her. Mr Faruk took both the code of medical ethics in Nigeria and the Hippocratic Oath to the cleaners when he invited his patient on the pretext of further medical examination but ended up raping her. In an interview with DAILY NIGERIAN, the husband of the patient, simply identified as Alhaji Shehu, said he was referred to the doctor by a family friend when his wife was diagnosed…
Barely 72 hours after a three-storeyed building collapsed in Ita Faji area, Lagos Island, another building has collapsed in Ibadan, Oyo State. The incident occurred in Bode area of Ibadan on Friday. At the time of this report, the casualty toll was not ascertained, but a crowd is currently gathered at the scene of the building collapse. Details later… Source: Sahara Reporters