Day: July 14, 2020

Feminists Attack RCCG Overseer Adeboye Over Birthday Message To Wife + FULL MESSAGE

Rotimi Emmanuel

  Feminists have taken to Twitter to attack the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare (E.A) Adeboye over a birthday message to his wife, Pastor Folake Adeboye. Adeboye, in a birthday message to his wife of over 40 years on Monday, described her as his number one fan who still cooks his meals and serves the food herself despite her busy schedule. Part of the message read; “No matter how educated or successful you are, your husband is your head and you must…

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US begins COVID-19 Vaccines’ Mass Production in next Four Weeks – Official 

Rotimi Emmanuel

  The United States (U.S) has announced government’s partnership with some drug makers to actively start the manufacturing of a vaccine for COVID-19 are on track. Reuters, which reported this quoted an unnamed senior United States administration official to have said this on Monday. The US government has partnered and given grants ranging from several hundred millions of dollars to over $1 billion to drug makers like Johnson & Johnson, Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Novavax Inc. It also signed a $450 million contract earlier this month with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc in order to help it supply therapies…

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NNPC Terminates Multi-million Dollars Contracts for ailing Refineries

Damola Oyede

  Nigerian workers’ unions rule out strike, demand consultations on 850 workers affected through contracts’ terminations   The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has terminated multi-million dollars contracts on three ailing refineries, including the ones for support services at the Kaduna refinery, which made zero revenue but spent N64 billion in 2018. This effort, Platforms Africa gathered exclusively, was a part of reorganisation of the operations and repositioning of the refineries books that have hitherto come under several attacks by transparency groups. Oil workers’ unions in the country on Monday…

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As race for WTO DG hots up, 15-Nation ECOWAS, Leaders endorse Okonjo-Iweala

Tim Bauer

    The race for the office of Director General (DG), World Trade Organisation (WTO) is hotting up with a 15-member-state regional group, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) throwing its weight behind the candidacy of the Nigeria’s former Coordinating Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The endorsement by the regional group came as leaders in Africa like former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, also queued behind her. This is a boost to Mrs Okonjo-Iweala candidature in the race following last week’s decision by the African…

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Multi-billion dollars NLNG, BGT get New Boards + Full List of Members

Efe Wellington

  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the country’s representatives on the Board of multi-billion dollars Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), naming a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Edmund Daukoru, as Chairman. A memo signed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva explained that President Buhari also endorsed the reconstituted Board of Bonny Gas Transport Limited (BGT). According to the memo, the list of new representatives of the Nigeria Government on the LNG Board are Edmund Daukoru as the Chairman while Henry lkem-Obih,…

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Confusion as 55 ‘Ghana Girls’ School Pupils, Teachers test Positive for COVID-19

Aoko Benjamin

  Fifty-five out of 314 test samples taken from pupils and teachers of the Accra Girls’ Senior High School have returned positive for COVID-19, creating panic across the length and breadth of Ghana’s capital. A joint statement by the country’s education and health authorities, which confirmed this, added that those with close contacts with the affected have also been quarantined. Giving an insight into the unfortunate inncident, a veteran journalist in Ghana, Francis Kotutse, noted that some protocols set by the government before reopening of schools were violated by the…

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