Month: June 2020

Nigeria’s Ondo State Governor, Akeredolu, Tests Positive For COVID-19  

Damilola Olonade

Governor of Ondo State, South West, Nigerisla, Rotimi Akeredolu, has announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Akeredolu in his verified twitter handle on Tuesday, said he got confirmation of a positive result for the virus on Tuesday morning. According to him: “Earlier today, I got confirmation of a positive result for Covid-19. “I am asymptomatic and not displaying any symptoms. I am currently self-isolating and supervised home management will be administered by the wonderful team at our Infectious Disease Hospital. “I ask that we all stay safe and…

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EKEDC underscores top service delivery, begins new tariff

Lukman Olasunkanmi

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), a top power utility firm in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, has underscored top service delivery as it announced that customers that have more supply would pay more for power consumed from July 1, 2020. The company, which stated this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa, noted that this new service reflective tariff is in line with  regulatory policies aimed at improving service delivery. The review, the statement issued by EKEDC’s spokesman, Godwin Idemudia – an accomplished corporate communication veteran – read, is…

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Nigeria ends 100-day Schools’ shutdown for Pry 6, JSS 3, SSS 3 pupils

Tim Bauer

  Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, on Monday ended the 100 days shut down of schools across the country as it directed that all the prospective Students in Primary 6, Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS) 3 should resume in preparation for examinations. Chairman of the country’s Presidential Task Force (PTF) and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, disclosed this during the daily briefing held in country’s capital, Abuja, harping on the need for the students to observe all the health guidelines…

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COVID-19: Tips, Tale On Working as IT professional from Home in Africa

Tanko Alhamdu

Beyond any reasonable doubt, COVID-19 came with several challenges – and opportunities too. Although most organisations in Africa, like elsewhere in the World, closed operations from their physical offices, many employees did not quite go on a lockdown as they took their jobs home and got their remote offices fully functional. Relating this to my personal experience as an IT professional in Nigeria, this meant that my work continued, especially in terms of technical support to clients and colleagues. Just that the mode of implementing it differed this time. Phone…

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Nigerians Extol Renowned Social Worker, Ebunoluwa Balogun’s Virtues as She Passes Away at 81

Damilola Olonade

The family of Professor Ekundayo E. Balogun has announced the passing away of its matriarch, Mrs. Ebunoluwa Kofoworola Balogun, on June 24, 2020 in Houston, Texas, at the age of 81. Her son-in-law, Professor Oluyinka Olutoye, who was widely celebrated in 2016 for successfully leading a team of 21 doctors to conduct a surgery on a 23-week-old foetus and returning it to its mother’s womb in Texas, USA, announced this on behalf of the family.   Balogun, Olutoye said in a statement, is fondly remembered by all for her compassionate and selfless nature. A lot…

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Nigeria’s Kogi Chief Judge dies at COVID-19 isolation centre

Aliyu Aliyu

  Nasir Ajanah, Chief Judge of Kogi state, Nigeria’s confluence state, is dead. He died at a COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja, according to Nigeria-based The Cable online newspaper, at a time Governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, is having a running battle with the country’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) over his insistence that the state is Coronavirus free. A member of the family confirmed the death to TheCable on Sunday morning. His death came less than two weeks after an aide to Yahaya Bello, the state governor,…

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Top Kenyan Varsity under fire for blaming raped female students of being ‘reckless’

Aoko Benjamin

  A top Kenyan university, University of Nairobi, is under fire and condemnation from across the World after it heaped blame on female students who are raped, claiming their “reckless” behaviour caused them to become sexual violence victims. The University said in a memo sighted by Platforms Africa that the mounting number of incidents of rape and robbery of university students in the capital of Nairobi took place at particular locations. The locations are nearby to university affiliated buildings. “In all the three rape incidences reported last year, a clear case of recklessness…

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WHO, Partners mull $18.1bn on 2bn COVID-19 vaccine doses for Africa, others

Tim Bauer

  The World Health Organization (WHO) and vital partners have placed an order for 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines with a whooping $18.1 billion for the most vulnerable people in Africa and around the world. The plan, according to a report released by Wall Street Journal. approximates that the $18.1 billion would be needed to execute the plan predicts that by the end of 2021, COVID-19 doses could be delivered to nations, and there is a need to prioritize vaccinating high-risk persons, including people over the age of 65,…

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How Nigerian electricity customers will be billed in new tariff regime – Ikeja Electric

Damola Oyede

  Ikeja Electric, a leading power utility firm in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has given details of how electricity customers on its network would be billed in new tariff regime which is slated to begin on July 1, 2020. The utility firm declared this in a statement made available to Platforms Africa, maintaining that the new tariffs, which are Service reflective, are end-user rates to be paid for electricity based on the level of service (including availability and reliability) provided to a cluster of customers. This, the statement issued by…

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Analyst underscores danger ahead good governance in Nigeria

Damola Oyede

The cause of bad governance in Nigeria has become multifaceted but mostly traced to corruption and poor leadership, a Nigeria-based current affairs analyst, Azeem Salako, has said. Salako, who, according to a statement, said this during an interactive session in Ota, Ogun state, admonished political elites in the country against being instrumental to bringing some ill-prepared people into politics. Refering to the ill-prepared politicians as “impromptu politicians,” Salako concluded exposing them to leadership without prior training and experience could be destructive. “Speaking as a guest lecturer in the interactive session…

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