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Leading financial institution, Access Bank Plc continues to earn recognition for its efforts in leading the charge on sustainability, as the bank won the ‘Most Responsible Business in Africa’, and three other awards at the 12th edition of the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAS) held in Lagos on December 1, 2018. The SERAS CSR awards is an annual event aimed at recognizing and celebrating organizations for investing resources in the improvement of lives and the environment they serve through several innovative program and initiatives. Other awards won by the Bank include Best Partnership for Development; Best Corporate Communication Team and…

WORLD-FAMOUS PROPHET T.B. JOSHUA CHIEF FEMI FANI KAYODE RENOWNED POLITICIAN and former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode has come out stoutly in defence of the Senior Prophet of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet T.B. Joshua following the recent publication of a book by one Bisola Hephzi-bah Johnson with a Foreword by Ukraine-based Pastor Sunday Adelaja. In a no-hold-barred dressing-down of the author and her alleged promoter, Sunday Adelaja, Fani-Kayode dismissed the book as another of the many failed effort to malign the popular prophet, Nigerian ambassador of goodwill and world renowned televangelist, TB…

GAB Opens at Thought Pyramid Art Centre in Lagos Griots and Bards, GAB, a monthly village square of Spokenword poetry, visual arts, other forms of arts expression and culture conversations will open at Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Ikoyi,  Lagos, every Thursday of the month. The first edition of GAB will be on the 29th of November, 2019 by 6PM.  The event curated by Adebola Afolabi (REZthaPoet), a poet and business consultant, and Temi Ogunmokun (ChocolateOnAir), a broadcaster and logophile, is a project of Beige and Crow, a content marketing and management firm. GAB hopes to rekindle the culture of storytelling,…

He was known as A Right Honourable Gentleman and the Golden Voice of Africa. He was Nigeria’s only Prime Minister, a true gentleman who was killed in the Nzeogwu-led coup of January 15 1966. 52 years after, Tafawa Balewa still commands a lot of charisma and respect nationwide. So many monuments have been named after him. But not many know his final resting place. The Lagosian brings you exclusive pictures from the final resting place of this legend from Bauchi with love.

In swift response to the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Federal Government held an emergency meeting with the union leadership led by the union’s President- Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in the early hours of Tuesday. After the three hours long meeting, the Federal Government again failed to come to conclusion with the demands of the academics, the implication of which suggests that the indefinite suspension of activities by lecturers in all public owned universities will continue if the imbroglio is properly attended to.

By Sola Ojewusi in Dubai Every new day, Dubai surprises you with avant garde innovations. Always on their toes, the rulers of this amazing city would never spare any detail nor hold back anything to keep making Dubai attractive to tourists.  Think of anything extraordinary, outlandish, extravagant and eye-popping – minders of Dubai Department of Tourism would always strive to make it happen: The magnificent Burj Khalifa, for now the World’s Tallest Building, the Dubai Mall, largest shopping complex in the world, Dubai World, The Palms, Special Cities like Media City, Internet City, Maritime City etc. Another addition to…

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT The world just witnessed one of the great evenings of superb football as Arsenal and Liverpool shared the spoils in a keenly contested thriller at the Arsenal Homeground. Milner made it 0-1 in favour of Liverpool on the 61st before Lacazette evened things on the 82nd minute. LINE UP Arsenal: Leno; Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac; Torreira, Xhaka; Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Aubameyang: Lacazette Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Milner, Wijnaldum; Salah, Firmino, Mane More stories later.

By  Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna IT was with mixed feelings that the people of Gombe State celebrated this year’s Democracy Day anniversary. In the past seven years, Gombe people have known social peace, economic progress and visionary leadership under Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo.