Month: August 2020

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

    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 

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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Lagos, Nigeria’s COVID-19 epicentre, reopens Churches, Mosques Friday, August 7

ADEOLA YUSUF

Lagos, COVID-19 epicentre in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has announced the re-opening of religious centres, particularly the Churches and Mosques. Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who made this announcement on Saturday, August 1, 2020, ordered the re-opening of places of worship in Lagos, starting from Friday, August 7, 2020. The Governor also increases public gatherings capacity from 20 to 50 people. Lagos earlier said it “spends between 500,000 and N1 million daily on each of the severe COVID-19 patient,” a declaration that has since generated controversy. Sanwo-olu has…

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How Nigerian Police Officer arrested, raped woman for “not wearing Facemask” + His IDENTITY

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigerian Police Force has given graphical details of how one of its officers “apprehended” a woman, took her to a guesthouse and raped her till morning for “not using face mask.” The Rivers State Police Command, which confirmed the incident, identified the officer as Inspector Peter Ebah. Ebah, the Command confirmed, has now been arrested. “He had arrested the lady at Saakpenwaa checkpoint in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State. “He then took her to a guest house where he raped her till morning before letting her…

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