Day: October 11, 2020

Death toll in Lagos three-storey building collapse hits Seven + PHOTOS

Damilola Olonade

  The death toll in the Lagos three-storey building collapse has hit seven. Director General /Chief Executive Officer (DG/CEO), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, who declared this in an update sent to Platforms Africa, noted that the seven fatalities in the collapsed Building at No, 60 Odo Street, Obalende Eti-Osa, included 6 men, 1 woman. “Additional Update on Collapsed Building at No, 60 Odo Street, Obalende Eti-Osa. Update on Collapsed Building at 2000hrs. “The operation on the above is ongoing,” LASEMA boss said. “Initial findings…

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Three-storey Mansion collapses in Lagos, kills four, injures eight + EXACT LOCATION

Wonuola Olujobi

  Four yet-to-be-identified persons lost their lives on Sunday when a three-storey building collapsed in the Obalende area of Lagos Island, Lagos State. It was gathered that eight other persons were injured. The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the incident. Oke-Osanyintolu noted that the affected three-storey building, located at 62, Odo Street, Obalende, Lagos Island, was under construction when it collapsed. He said: “Upon arrival at the incident scene, a three-storey building under construction was discovered to have self-collapsed. “The cause of the collapse is…

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Nigerian Police Chief bows to Pressure, Disbands SARS Nationwide

Damola Oyede

The Nigerian Police Chief known in the country as Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has announced the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force. Adamu announced this in a live broadcast on Sunday as growing protest against the special force unit us heightened across the world. The announcement came after days of online and offline protests against the brutality and extra-judicial killings by SARS operatives nationwide. Platforms Africa gathered that Adamu who hitherto was reluctant to take a decisive action on the issue was on the…

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#ENDSARS: Nigerian President loses 100,000 Twitter Followers in 24 hours

ADEOLA YUSUF

  About 100,000 accounts have unfollowed Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Twitter as the #EndSARS protest rocking the country takes a new turn. The loss of 100,000 followers is a sign of protest of Buhari’s alleged mismanagement of the current policing crisis across the nation. A new wave of protests to end the activities of the special anti-robbery squad of the Nigerian Police Force (SARS) has been sweeping across the globe in the last 96 hours, calling on the president to scrap that unit of the nation’s police. Buhari did…

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ExxonMobil loses $225bn In Market Cap Against Chevron – Report

Efe Wellington

  Twice over the past two weeks, ExxonMobil XOM has made headlines for all the wrong reasons, a Forbes Report reads. Last week the utility NextEra Energy NEE surpassed the market capitalization of ExxonMobil to, according to the report, replace it as the largest U.S. energy company. This week, there was another milestone. At some points over the past decade, ExxonMobil — the biggest of “Big Oil” in the U.S. — was worth as much as $225 billion more than Chevron CVX. That size advantage totally disappeared on October 8, 2020, when Chevron’s value closed the…

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