Day: June 15, 2020

Anger as Nigeria’s Refinery makes Zero Naira, spends N64bn in one year

Efe Wellington

Nigerians have taken to Twitter to angily demand the shut down and sell off of one of the three refineries in Africa’s biggest crude exporting country, Kaduna Refinery, which generated zero naira but incurred N64 billion in 2018. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) owner of the refinery had on Sunday broken a 43 year-old jinx as it published the first ever audited report since its establishment in 1977 where it showed the gross ineptitude of the refinery located in Kaduna. The 2018 audited financials of the corporation showed that…

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FACT CHECK: Top 6 fake COVID-19 news spreading after Burundi President Nkurunziza’s death

Adeola Yusuf

The death of Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has been followed swiftly by some pieces of information in the category of rumour, fake news and fear mongering on COVID-19 in and about the country.  They are spreading like a wild fire across African countries of Kenya, Congo, Uganda and Nigeria among others. A few of the Media from the West also alluded to some of the information that have turned out to be unverified, lies and fake. Here is a fact check by Platforms Africa on six of the news items.…

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