WHAT CBN DISCOVERED AT ETB

How Adenuga launders IBB’s money through his bank

Perhaps the most persistent subject of suspicion in the Nigerian public space has been the nature of the business relationship between Otunba Mike Adenuga and General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd).
Adenuga owns and directly controls a massive business empire that includes Globacom, ETB, ConOil and several well heeled concerns. Ever [...]

Volume II, Issue 18

This week on the June 08, 2009 edition of Fortune&Class Weekly:

FIRS bars ETB, Spring Bank, Wema Bank – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has barred three banks from collecting taxes and other revenue due to the federal government on its behalf.

The banks, Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB), Spring Bank and Wema Bank were given the [...]

ADENUGA’S EXPATRIATE DIRECTOR RESIGNS FOR FEAR OF NIGER DELTA MILITANTS

Mr. Pandanam, an Indian expatriate who holds a high ranking office in Dr. Mike Adenuga (Jnr) Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB) was not intended on leaving Nigeria in a hurry. The Indian, who, until he left Nigeria in a hurry, was the bank’s Regional Services Director, decided to bid farewell to his job at ETB [...]

THEY SAY ADENUGA’S WISH TO SIGN OFF ETB SUFFERS SET BACK

Perhaps some ETB staff that were in the know of the negotiation of the acquisition of the bank by FirstBank were excited at the prospect of changing boss from the authority of Otunba (Dr.) Mike Adenuga to the structured management of FirstBank. Feelers from the bank owned by Adenuga indicated that some staff members were [...]

WONDER BANKS DEPOSITORS REFUND…CBN WAITS ON 17 RECEIVING BANKS FOR PAYMENT

The Central Bank of Nigeria has commenced the final processes to refund sums of money deposited by investors in pyramid schemes operating as fund managers that had, since July this year, declared as illegal fund managers by the Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST).
The CBN had in a letter of 15 October, 2008 signed by T.A [...]

THEY SAY ADENUGA’S WISH TO SIGN OFF ETB SUFFERS A SET BACK

Perhaps some ETB staff that were in the know of the negotiation of the acquisition of the bank by FirstBank were excited at the prospect of changing boss from the authority of Otunba (Dr.) Mike Adenuga to the structured management of FirstBank. Feelers from the bank owned by Adenuga indicated that some staff members were [...]