BVN Deadline: 26m bank accounts to be frozen

With less than 1 day to the deadline for Bank Verification Number, BVN, about 26 million account holders still haven't registered to protect their money. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said no extension would be granted after the deadline expires and customers who still haven't registered will have no access to their money or any transaction in their account. According to CBN, the registration window will still be open after tomorrow, but unregistered customers will not be granted access to their accounts.

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Two years after he was declared missing, Professor James Bolarinwa Olomo(pictured above) of the department of Nuclear And Medical Physics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun state is yet to be found. The University don left his home in Lagos on October 17, 2013, for a consultation job with an unidentified oil and gas company in Eket, Akwa Ibom and was last heard from on October 19th. His relatives and members of the OAU Academic Staff Union of Universities held a meeting in the school premises recently where they described the disappearance of the university don.

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Photo: Floyd Mayweather shows off his newly acquired $3.5M 2015 Bugatti

Floyd Mayweather showed off his new 2015 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, he said it cost him $3,498,000.

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Calling on all Ice Cream lovers - 2 for the price of 1

I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Ice Cream! Cold Stone Creamery, Nigeria’s foremost ice cream brand is saying thank you to their customers with mouthwatering discounts at their Ikeja City Mall and Festacstores. Get 50% off any ice cream purchase made at Cold Stone Creamery Ikeja City Mall from Monday, 26th of October - Thursday 29th of October. Cold Stone Ikeja City Mall is located at the food court, shop L76. For the People of FESTAC, Tuesdays are for ice cream! With the Tuesday Special promotion, you can get *50% OFF* any icecream purchase made every Tuesday from 27th October-Thursday 29th.

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 Plateau state governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Jos, the state capital, yesterday upheld the election of the state governor, Simon Bako Lalong. The tribunal in its ruling, struck out the petition of Gyang Pwajok of the PDP, stating that the petition lacked merit and the petitioner failed to prove that the April 11th election that produced Lalong as governor was marred with election irregularities. The tribunal ordered the petitioner and his party, PDP to pay a fine of N50,000 to the governor, his party APC and INEC.

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