Zenith Bank Plc has become the first Nigerian Bank to successfully launch its Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) account control code, *966*911#. This unique code stops unauthorized transactions and protects the account holder’s funds in the event of mobile phone, ATM Card or hardware token loss as well as account …

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn left his Tokyo detention centre on Wednesday March 6, 2019 after more than 100 days in custody, following a surprise court decision granting him bail of one billion yen ($9 million). Ghosn left the detention centre in northern Tokyo flanked by guards, wearing a blue …

BY KATE ROBERTSON Michael Jackson will no longer be played on MediaWorks and NZME radio stations. MediaWorks Group Content Director Leon Wratt told Magic Talk’s Peter Williams this will primarily affect The Breeze and More FM, but also extends to the network’s wider brands. “We (MediaWorks) aren’t deciding whether Michael …

An estimated 1,863 Nigerians who came to Russia last year for the FIFA World Cup are still on the loose in the country, more than two months after their Fan IDs expired. Dozens of them, who were young women have been forced into prostitution by the traffickers who brought them …

BY FORTUNE ABANG The French Embassy in Nigeria on Tuesday March 19, 2019 said the country was set to host the biggest French dinner in Nigeria. Ms Damilola Ayodeji, the Press Officer/ Attaché of the French Embassy in Nigeria, said in a statement that the dinner, scheduled to hold on Thursday, was part …

The Federal High Court in Asaba has overruled the Jones Erue-led executive committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State and nullified candidates fielded by the faction of the party for 2019 elections. In its judgment, the court, presided over by Justice Toyin Adegoke, upheld the Cyril Ogodo-led …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday March 13, 2019 re-arraigned a  former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank PLC, Erastus Akingbola in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for alleged Money Laundering. He is facing an amended 22 count charge bordering on money laundering and he had …

Cyclone Idai caused more havoc than initially reported as Mozambique said over a thousand people may have been killed as the cyclone smashed into the central part of the country. In neighbouring Zimbabwe, Idai left 89 dead and at least 150 more missing. The city of Beira in central Mozambique …

Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University Economics Professor who advised U.S. former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday March 18, 2019. He was 58. The statement did not elaborate about the circumstances of Krueger’s death, …

Contrary to the story making rounds about the contrived sale of a customer’s goods worth N2.5billion by foremost financial services provider, Access Bank Plc, the bank has come out in defense of the purported sale by vehemently denying any wrongdoing whatsoever in the alleged sale of the said customer’s goods. …