Day: August 3, 2020

NNPC loses second ex-GMD in 3 months as Joseph Dawha dies

Damilola Olonade

    Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Engineer Joseph Dawha, is dead. Dawah is the second ex-GMD of the Corporation to die in the last three months. One of his successors, Maikanti Baru died earlier this year. Dawha replaced Andrew Yakubu as GMD in 2014. Group Managing Director of the corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, who announced his death in his Twitter handle, extolled the virtues of the late NNPC boss. “The NNPC family regrets to announce the passing away of Dr Joseph Thalama Dawha, GMD…

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Why we fired 75 pilots – Nigeria’s airline operator Air Peace + FULL STATEMENT 

Precious Ibekwe

  One of Nigeria’s commercial airline operators, Air Peace, has reportedly sacked 75 pilots and hundreds of other supporting staff. The company, which confirmed the sack of the pilots in a statement obtained by Platforms Africa, however, said that it took the “very painful but rightful decision, in the circumstances the airline has found itself of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations  and financial health.” The pilots who were at different cadres were sent to the labour market over seeming irreconcilable differences between the managment and…

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