Tthere was some pandemonium earlier today at the Gate Bus stop, Ipaja which left one person dead.
It was, however reported that Operative of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) has arrested the killer of a person who died in the violence and other suspects.
Also restored has been normalcy in the area, while intensive patrols are ongoing.
“So sad!!! One of my boy was killed today by Hausa okada man @ abesan Estate gate bus stop mosan okunola lcda Alimosho area too much riot is going on now. Am really appreciate Lagos State commitional of police, area f command,area p command, and woman like man Mrs tokunbo dpo Ipaja division.
“More over Hausa people over 50 was arrested by police with their okada. Next updating still coming. REST IN PERFECT PEACE MY BOY,” @Ola Federal, a Twitter user said.
The Governments of the United Kingdom and France on Monday said they are not happy with footage of mass graves in Bucha, Ukraine, days after the Russian military forces withdrew from the area to another part of the country.
The First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Emine Dzheppar, tweeted photos of “people deliberately killed by Russian occupants” in Bucha but the Russian Defence Ministry denied the development describing it as a “hoax”.
The defense ministry stated that all Russian Units withdrew completely from Bucha by March 30 while the photos were circulated from April 4.
It added: “During the time that the town has been under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident has suffered from any violent action.
“The so-called evidence of crimes in Bucha did not emerge until the fourth day, when the security service of Ukraine and Representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town. “
But UK prime minister, Boris Johnson refused to agree with the Russia side.
“The discovery of more mass graves outside Kyiv is sickening. The UK will not stand by whilst this indiscriminate and unforgivable slaughter takes place.
“We are working to ensure those responsible are held to account. We will not rest until justice is done,” Johnson tweeted on Monday.
On its part, the France government said Russian government must answer for “these crimes”.
“The images coming from Bucha are unbearable. In the streets, hundreds of civilians were cowardly murdered. We express our sympathy for the victims, our solidarity with the Ukrainians,” the France government tweeted on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Russian government has requested for a United Nation Security Council meeting today so as to defend itself on the recent development around Bucha.
WEMA BANK announces 108.3% growth in Profit Before Tax
+ Total Assets now above ₦1Trillion Naira
Wema Bank Plc’s resilience was on display as the digitally driven financial institution announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021. The performance which capped a remarkable year showed strong growth in key financial indices especially as the bank crossed the ₦1trillion mark in total assets.
In a statement made to the public by Wema Bank, the Managing Director. Mr. Ademola Adebise said, “I am delighted to announce our performance for the year ended 31st December 2021. The Bank’s FY 2021 results shows robust growth in all key financial metrics despite the challenging macro-economic environment.
“Our year end numbers highlight the strong growth trajectory of the WEMA Bank. We comfortably crossed the ₦1trillion mark in total assets, with a share of approximately 3% of industry deposits.”
Wema Bank recorded an increase of 108.3% in profit before tax (PBT) to close the year at N12.38 billion. This was driven by a Year-on-Year growth of 15.35% in gross earnings to ₦92.14billion in FY 2021 from ₦79.88billion in FY 2020.
The Chief Finance Officer of the Bank, Mr. Tunde Mabawonku noted that “a key measure of success for us is a consistent growth in our balance sheet and customer base – and we are glad that we are reporting healthy growth in all these areas.”
Deposit Liabilities grew by 15.23% to ₦927.47billion in FY 2021 from ₦804.87billion in FY 2020 while Total Asset increased by 20.23% to ₦1.164.52billion in FY 2021 from ₦968.58billion in FY 2020.
Mr Mabawonku also added that, ” Looking forward, we expect that the strong growth will be sustained despite the tough business climate as we execute our customer experience improvement initiatives built around a digital first banking strategy and become first in class in that sphere. The bank will also continue to focus on our digital business, which is a key boost for customer acquisition, consumer lending and transaction volumes while not neglecting our corporate and commercial play.
” On our commercial business, we will continue our aggressive strategy to improve our lending business alongside trade and other revenue lines. We have also unveiled our new Mission and Vision statements which underpins our corporate strategy. We want to be the dominant digital platform in Africa delivering seamless financial service’.
Gross earnings increased by 15.35% (Y-o-Y) to ₦92.14billion in FY 2021 from ₦79.88billion in FY 2020.Profit Before Tax (PBT) of ₦12.3billion in FY’21, an increase of 108.26% YoY from N5.95billion in FY’20 while. Profit After Tax (PAT) of ₦8.93billion in FY’21, representing an increase of 94.53% YoY from N4.59billion in FY’2020.
Net-Interest Income grew to ₦39.87billion in FY 2021from ₦30.86billion in FY 2020; growth of 29.22%.Non-Interest Income also increased from ₦16.83billion in FY 2021 to ₦18.83billion; a growth of 11.91%.
Deposit Liabilities up by 15.23% to ₦927.47billion in FY 2021 from ₦804.87billion in FY 2020. Loans and Advances to Customers rose by 16.33% to ₦418.86billion in FY 2021 from ₦360.08billion in FY 2020.
Similarly, Total Asset increased by 20.23% to ₦1.164.52billion in FY 2021 from ₦968.58billion in FY 2020.Key RatiosReturn on average equity of 17.26% in FY 2021 (FY 2020)
MKO Abiola’s daughter, Hafusat has landed in trouble with trolls on twitter after saying Governor Yahaya Bello has same qualities as her father.
She made this statement in an interview session following her appointment as the director general of Governor Yahaya Bello’s presidential ambition.
Several Nigerians have described this statement as unpleasant considering the status Abiola attained while he was alive compared to what Yahaya Bello has done in Kogi state.
Read some reactions below
The profile of Sister Hafsat in the struggle to sustain the legacies of her father is unquestionable;but comparing Bello to Abiola is oddly unconscionable and Bogus.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) April 4, 2022
I agree. MKO Abiola the coup financier was a “hero of democracy” the same way Murtala Mohammed the genocidaire was a “founding father.”
It’s death that has sanitised and deodorised the stench surrounding these execrable men from Nigeria’s past. https://t.co/KB01QguiYG
— David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) April 4, 2022
MKO Abiola’s daughter really said that Yahaya Bello has same qualities with her father? Maybe we should send our gratitude to IBB for annulling that election.
— Aminu Ibn Massaga (@masagz4u) April 4, 2022
Standards are so low we have people now comparing MKO Abiola with Yahaya Bello. Is Yahaya Bello ready to die for his priniciples – assuming he has any?
— Dr Ayo Sogunro (@ayosogunro) April 4, 2022
The campaign marriage between Hafsat Abiola, a Harvard Grad.and Yaya Bello reminds me of the Chude-Debola rebranding for Pres. Buhari..politics is such a beautiful thing because it pays little attention to morals but interests.
Where your heart is,
so shall your pocket be also.
— theonly1acre (@theonly1acre) April 3, 2022
Hafsat Abiola disrespected the late MKO Abiola by comparing her dad to
The Kogi thief!
…must you drag your late dad to your greedy-selfish-poverty-Pocket filled mission???
Hafsat why? 🤦♂️
The only place left for Yahaya Bello is prison to answer all the corruption charges.
— Otunba GCFRN 🌎 (@beninghone) April 3, 2022
Seeing Harvard and Cambridge trained children of MKO Abiola and Chief Remi Fani Kayode doing hatchet job for someone like Yahaya Bello will always be awkward to me.
— Odun Ola (@abbide) April 3, 2022
Hafsat Abiola, MKO Abiola’s daughter says she’s leading Yaya Bello’s presidential campaign because Bello shares some similarities with her late father. And to think that some of us have been looking at Bello with ordinary eyes fah. Issorite
A 50-year-old pastor, identified as Isaac Akinbola and two female members of his church have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly assaulting his wife, Dasola Akinbola which led to the death of their eight-month-old baby, Obadiah Akinbola.
Men of the Ogun State Police Command arrested the cleric and two female members identified as Esther Olowolayemo, 29, and Oluwakemi Oshinbajo, 30, over the death of the child.
The development was confirmed in a statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi.
According to Oyeyemi, the incident happened last Sunday and the cleric and the two female church members were arrested on the same day after the victim complained about the incident.
He said, “The arrest was made following a report lodged at the Awa Ijebu divisional headquarters by the pastor’s wife that she had been having disagreements with her husband over his illicit affair with some female members of the church for some time now.
“She explained that the said husband came to her house at the Ipinle area of Mamu Ijebu with two women, whom she had been suspecting of having illicit affair with him and asked them to beat her up.
“While they were beating her, her eight-month-old baby, Obadiah Akinbola, fell while her husband was urging the two women to beat her thoroughly.
“Upon the report, the DPO Awa Ijebu division, CSP Adewalehinmi Joshua, ordered the arrest of the three suspects, while the woman and her baby were taken to the Mamu Ijebu Health Centre for medical care.
“The woman and the baby were later referred to Blessed Hospital, Oru-Ijebu, where it was discovered that the baby had internal injuries which he sustained when he fell from his mother’s hands during the scuffle.
“The child gave up the ghost on March 28, 2022, while receiving treatment as a result of the internal injuries.
“The remains of the child have been deposited at the General Hospital, Ijebu Igbo mortuary for an autopsy.”
He further stated that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the suspects to be transfered to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and arraignment.
The son of DIG Mamman Tsafe(Rtd), Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs in Zamfara, has been shot dead by Bandits
He was killed alongside 3 others when bandits invaded Tsafe town, headquarters of Tsafe local government area of the state, on Sunday night.
The bandits in military uniforms stormed Shiyar Namada area close to the commissioner’s residence and opened fire on people.
Eyewitness reports reveal that some residents spotted the criminals and mistook them for security operatives, so they didn’t bother to raise alarm.
“The commissioner’s son, alongside some other people were seated at the frontage of DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe’s residence during iftar when suddenly the armed men showed up and started firing at every one on sight.”
“During the attack most people observing Tarawih prayer in several mosques around the area and residents had to flee to safety. The armed men later withdrew into the forest. As I’m talking to you I’m at the Waziri’s residence where preparations for their funeral are underway,” a resident revealed.
Popular Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, professionally known as Wizkid lost a Grammy Award to Angelique Kidjo in the Best World Music Album category.
The Beninese singer on Sunday night won the Best World Music Album for ‘Mother Nature’, at the 64th Grammy Awards.
Kidjo while receiving the award on Sunday thanked Nigerian artistes who featured in the album, Burna Boy, Yemi Alade and Mr. Eazi.
Angélique‘s fifth Grammy award album ‘Mother Nature’ was worked on by several Producers such as Kel P of (Burna Boy), James Poyser of The Roots, Vtek, Rexxie, Synematik, Blue Lab Beats, -M-, Brad Thomas Ackley, David Donatien and Dany Synthé.
Femi Kuti and Mide Kuti were also nominated in the category but they lost the opportunity to clinch the award.
The winner of the Best World Music Album has performed with several international orchestras and symphonies, including the Bruckner Orchestra, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Philharmonie de Paris.
The presidency has said the Peoples Democratic Party has no moral right to criticise it saying under the opposition party, Nigeria had an army whose soldiers’ pay ended up in the pockets of politicians.
The Presidency was reacting to the criticisms by the governors of the PDP which accused the All Progressives Congress of bad leadership.
The PDP governors had met in Abia a fortnight ago where it condemned the APC describing it as a party that was unfit to participate in the 2023 general election.
The PDP governors had also called the APC a failed party that had become a menace to Nigerians.
Reacting on Sunday, Mr Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, said in a statement that the PDP governors were attempting to cover up the “serial failure” of the opposition party’s period in office.
He said the Buhari administration and APC “have strived these past seven years to repair” the damage done by the PDP.
“We cannot forget under PDP, the nation had an army full of phantom soldiers whose pay went to PDP politicians’ pockets while our under-resourced real soldiers died in the fight against terrorist insurgents and our international allies refused to supply Nigeria kit and military aid,” the statement reads.
“Today with the APC, the army is resourced, we have fighter jets from our partners, Boko Haram is being driven from every inch of Nigerian territory, and ISWAP’s leader eliminated in a Nigerian airstrike.
“We cannot ignore how PDP politicians sought – and continue to seek – to inflame ethnic and religious tensions by refusing to even proffer a solution to the herder-farmer clashes which became most prevalent under their misrule.
“Today with APC in government, there are ranches on Federal land and in state land where there is the willingness to establish them. Clashes are reduced. Lives are saved, and livelihoods are enriched.”
Garba also said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation under the PDP government was mismanaged.
He said under the APC, funds from NNPC are directly and transparently used to fund social and health programmes – such as the COVID-19 response and the construction of public infrastructure.
“The Governors reeled out numbers on the economy, pretending as if the once-in-a-life COVID-19 pandemic, with its huge and devastating effect, disrupting global supply chains, uniformly battering the world economy never happened,” the statement further reads.
“COVID-19 brought suffering and hardship to the doorstep of the entire global community-less maybe, of the affluent and pretentious PDP Governors-and to the credit of this administration, Nigeria’s economy recovered faster and stronger than the entire world ever imagined.”
Nigerian singer and actor, Folarin Falana [Falz] has disclosed why he decided to opt-out of Funke Akindele’s soap opera, Jenifa’s Diary.
It will be recalled that Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele started her epic series of Jenifa’s Diary on April 15, 2015.
Akindele had featured both veterans and newbies in the series to create unimaginable scenes that have captured the heart of her lovers and fans.
Falz who took the role of Sege happens to be one of the major characters of the series.
However, as years go by, the singer has acknowledged that he can no longer appear on the movie set for Jenifa’s Diary due to his schedule.
The singer who spoke at an interview with Inkblot’s Meet & Greet said the schedule and timing of shooting are no longer in agreement with his personal schedule.
He said, “If I could be on the show every single episode, I would but it’s just schedule, timing, shooting, ah!
“People genuinely root for them (Jenifa and Sege). And there was a time that she had a bit of confusion in her life as per which guy she should pick and everybody was like Sege!
“Funke can build herself around characters that she’s working with and I have to say she’s one of the most, if not the most hardworking person I have come across in this entertainment industry. This woman, as we’re on set, she’s writing the next episode, she’s directing”, Falz said.
The singer further revealed his love for filmmaking, expressing that he plans to make more films.
“I love filmmaking, that’s what I’ve come to realize. I really love the process of taking an idea and bringing it to life in the form of film. I really love that. So I think I’m definitely going to do a lot more. I don’t know the specifics. I can’t say for sure that I will go into directing.
“I’m already a filmmaker with House 21. We’re creating films, we’re creating different other types of content. Now writing I think I probably would get into it. That’s for sure. Ideas come to me already and with music, I already write music and it’s not the same, but having that kind of background, I think I’ll be able to write. But directing, you never know,” Falz added.
