Day: September 11, 2020

Sadiya, Nigerian Sokoto ex-Governor Wamakko’s daughter dies of childbirth complications

Aliyu Aliyu

  Sadiya Magatakarda Wamakko, the daughter of former governor of Sokoto state, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has passed away. Sadiya Magatakarda Wamakko died at the age of 23 years following complications arising from childbirth. TVC News reported that Sadiya died at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. However, Sadiya was buried on Thursday night. The funeral took place at the residence of Senator Wamakko, Sahabi Dange, road, Gawon Nama, Sokoto.

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5100 card readers destroyed as fire razed Ondo INEC office 30 days to election

Gbenga Adeoti

Over 5100 card readers which were meant for the October 10 governorship election in Nigeria’s Ondo state have been destroyed as fire, on Thursday, September 10, gutted the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) office in the state. The fire outbreak which started on Thursday night at the ICT unit of the Commission, raged for over five hours. The Inferno was said to have started around 8:30 pm. With the cause of the outbreak unknown, men of the fire service were yet to arrive at the scene. INEC Commissioner in Charge of Information…

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Nigerian Doctors Suspend Strike, confirm government’s N8.9bn COVID-19 allowance payment approval

Precious Ibekwe

  The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its ongoing nationwide strike, which it commenced on September 7, 2020. The group also confirmed that the government has approved the release of 8.9 billion naira to offset the outstanding balance of April/May and June COVID-19 hazard inducement allowance to all health workers, noting that the decision of the government to determine revised hazard allowance as soon as possible. A communique, signed after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting by President of NARD Dr. Aliyu Sokomba and other key officials…

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17,483 PPPRA, PEF staff face sack, mass redeployment as Minister declares end to agencies’ existence

Efe Wellington

  The Nigerian Minister of  State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has declared an end to the existence of some agencies buoyed by the full deregulation of the country’s oil industry. Sylva made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, administrative capital of Nigeria. The minister specifically mentioned the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, ( PPPRA)  and the Petroleum Equalisation Board,  (PEF) as agencies that will no longer be in existence. The two agencies do not, according  to checks by Platforms Africa, operate a transparent system where the number…

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