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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, have called for greater adoption of non-interest finance to mobilise long-term capital to support Nigeria’s productive economy. They spoke on Thursday at the ‘Beyond Interest’ private intelligence forum organised by The Alternative Bank in Victoria Island, Lagos. The forum brought together investors, entrepreneurs, wealth creators, institutional decision-makers and public-sector leaders to examine the role of patient capital in driving sustainable economic growth. Opening the forum, Chairman of The Alternative Bank, Muhtar Bakare, said Nigeria’s challenge was not a lack of capital but the absence of trust…
Femi Otedola, chairman of First HoldCo Plc, has acquired an additional 138 million shares in the financial services group, valued at about ₦18.1 billion. The transaction was announced on Friday in a regulatory filing signed by the group’s Company Secretary, Abiola Baruwa. Mr Otedola acquired an additional 138,041,465 shares at ₦131.2 per share through Calvados Global Services Limited. The new share purchase represents 0.30 per cent of the company’s outstanding shares, bringing Mr Otedola’s total stake in the financial services group to 27.16 per cent of the company’s issued share capital. Mr Otedola now holds approximately 11.9 billion shares in…
The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has approved the allocation of a parcel of land in Enugu, the state capital, for the establishment of a state-of-the-art Digital Fabrication Centre by the Industrial Training Fund. Mbah announced this while receiving a delegation from the Industrial Training Fund on a courtesy visit to the Government House, Enugu. The ITF disclosed this on Friday in a statement signed by its Director of Press and Public Relations, Thomas Ngor. According to the statement, Mbah described the proposed project as timely and aligned with his administration’s vision of transforming Enugu into a leading destination…
In light of the catastrophic low-entropy bug in Coldcard hardware wallets, linked to publicly observed thefts beginning on July 30, Bitcoin holders have started to re-evaluate the trust assumptions in their hardware wallet setups. How Coldcard’s entropy flaw workedThe Coldcard devices were equipped with apparently functional STM32 “true random number generators” (TRNGs) that rely on physical processes to produce an unguessable seed phrase.However, after Coldcard creator NVK decided to initiate a firmware rewrite to switch from a GPL-licensed free software model to a read-only model, a serious vulnerability appears to have been introduced.Starting with firmware version 4.0.1, released in March 2021,…
Get a rundown of Us‘ top stories making headlines in celebrity news, sports and entertainment on August 6, 2026. Here are the key takeaways: • Joe Amabile shared that surgeons removed the entire brain tumor discovered on a recent scan, posting a peace-sign photo from recovery with the message, “They got it all!” His wife, Serena Pitt, added that the Bachelor in Paradise alum is recovering well following the craniotomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. • Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper‘s matching gold bands, spotted in Paris on August 3, are “promise rings” they’ve had…
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Nigeria has launched a new project aimed at strengthening the resilience of an oil-producing community in Akwa Ibom State against the devastating impacts of oil spills. The project, funded by CARITAS Canada and titled “Strengthening Community Resilience to Oil Spill Impacts in Akwa Ibom State,” was inaugurated during an inception meeting held on Thursday in Eket, bringing together government officials, community leaders, traditional rulers, civil society groups and development partners. The initiative will focus on the Okoro Utip community in Ibeno Local Government Area, where residents have complained for years about the environmental and socio-economic consequences of oil pollution.…
Nigerian singer Peter “Mr P” Okoye has alleged that his late mother, Josephine Okoye, repeatedly urged his brothers, Paul and Jude Okoye, to apologise to him and his wife, Lola Omotayo-Okoye, over the family’s treatment of them, but said the apology never came before her death. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the singer’s mother died in 2012 at a hospital in India following heart surgery. Doctors initially admitted her to St. Nicholas Hospital on Lagos Island before transferring her abroad for further treatment. Mr P made the claim in the latest instalment (part eight) of his ongoing tell-all video series on social media, where…
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Ayo Omidiran, has pledged support Ahmadu Bello University’s plans to host the 2028 Nigeria University Games (NUGA) and develop one of the country’s National Centres of Excellence in Sports. Ms Omidiran made the commitment on Thursday when the university’s management, led by Vice-Chancellor Adamu Ahmed, paid her a courtesy visit at the FCC headquarters in Abuja. An alumna of the institution, Ms Omidiran said Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, played a defining role in shaping her leadership journey and reaffirmed her commitment to supporting initiatives that promote education, youth empowerment and…
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has assured that the state’s new permanent National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp will be ready for the next batch of youth corps members. He gave the assurance at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2026 Batch B, Stream II youth corps members in Damare, Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa on Friday. Represented by the Chief of Staff, Dr Edgar Amos, the governor said construction of the permanent orientation camp had reached advanced stage, expressing confidence that subsequent batches would commence their orientation at the facility. He reiterated his administration’s commitment to the welfare…
