Day: July 15, 2020

Drama as Nigerian Cross Dresser, Bob Risky, Announces Two Weeks Pregnancy

Damola Oyede

  “Can’t Wait to be a Mum.” With the statement above, Nigerian cross dresser and social media influencer, Idris Okuneye popularly known as Bob Risky, got people talking with his recent post which has sparked pregnancy rumors. The single post by the cross dresser which was liked by 49,770 people with 7,750 comments in less than one hour after being shared, has got everyone talking on and outside social media, as some wondering if it is really true. Bob Risky made a post that had the inscription, “I can’t hide…

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Why Nigeria’s Oil Industry regulator, DPR, disowned 2020/2021 ‘recruitment’

Damilola Olonade

  Oil industry regulator in Nigeria, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has given reasons for disowning the recruitment notice particularly on social media. Head of Public Affairs, Paul Osu, who gave the warning in a statement to Platforms Africa, declared that the agency was currently not conducting any recruitment exercise and had not engaged any persons, agents or consultants to act as intermediaries. He told citizens not to part with huge sums of money for employment into the agency. Osu noted that scammers were masquerading as recruitment agencies and…

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How Tolulope Arotile, Nigerian First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot died + PHOTOS

Efe Wellington

  Nigerians have taken to the social media to express deep sadness over the death of Tolulope Arotile, who at just 23 year-old became the First Female Combat Helicopter Pilot in the history of Nigerian Air Force. Arotile has succeeded many turbulence in the air as a combat pilot, she died in a fatal auto crash inside the airforce base in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria. She was said to have been ran over by a yet to be named colleague inside the airforce base. This narrative is yet to be confirmed…

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Crude Oil Demand to hit 97.7m barrels daily in 5 Months – OPEC

Tim Bauer

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has declared that the World appetite for crude oil would hit 97.72 million barrels daily starting from the next five months. The demand for its crude oil too, the cartel said in a forecast, would surge by 25% to average 29.8 million barrels a day. This projection for 2021, contained in the OPEC’s latest Monthly Oil Market report obtained by Platforms Africa ahead its official release, is higher than the level required in 2019. The report was embargoed until Wednesday when this story…

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