Day: October 9, 2020

OPINION: A Second Look at Yola – Gombe Road and 10-Day Completion Ultimatum 

Modibbo Halliru Ahmadu

Fashola The Federal road from Gombe to Yola, Northeast Nigeria, is a stretch of 245 kilometers and a drive of about a maximum of three hours when driving to Yola. The road has a very high economic value as a major artery linking people to Adamawa and Taraba states. Despite its economic importance, however, the road has been in complete bad shape for more than 30 years that I know and used it. Successive administrations have abandoned the road to its fate. A short sigh of relief came to the…

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Chevron makes Workers Reapply for Jobs, begins 7,500 staff sack

Damola Oyede

  Chevron is asking its employees to reapply for jobs as a part of efforts to reduce the company’s headcount by up to 15 percent of its 50,000 workforce globally, a report showed. Citing unnamed sources in the know, the report by Reuters noted that the move is part of efforts to reduce the supermajor said in May it planned to reduce the number of its employees by 10 to 15 percent following the oil price collapse amid the pandemic. “This is a difficult decision, and we do not make it lightly,”…

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DANGER! Gas cylinder in your kitchen is expired? Here is how to check!

Efe Wellington

  A lot of domestic gas users in Nigeria do not know that cylinders or canisters they use to store and transport the cooking gas have expiry dates. Executive Secretary, Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM), Mr. Bassey Essien, in this no holds barred interview at the Platforms Africa Forum 3rd e-Discourse, opened up on this and his association’s report on the cause(s) of recent gas explosion in Ajuwon, Iju Isaga area of Lagos, Nigeria. Excerpts: The explosion in Ajuwon, Iju Isaga area of Lagos, Nigeria reported to…

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