Day: October 13, 2020

Egbin records 360MW daily shortfall, mulls $40m investment for turbines’ overhaul

Precious Ibekwe

  Egbin Power Plc launches 20 electric-powered buggies, 500 electric-powered bicycles    Biggest thermal power generation firm in West Africa, Egbin Power Plc, on Tuesday, declared that it recorded a shortfall of about 360 Mega watts (MW) of power generation daily. Chairman of the company, Temitope Shonubi, who declared this during the launch of 20 electricity-powered buggies and 500 electric-powered bicycles at the plant in Lagos, revealed the company’s plan for fresh $40 million investment on the overhaul of two turbines in its system. Fielding questions from Platforms Africa, Shonubi…

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Nigeria’s Ogijo residents stage protest over ‘killer roads”

Wonuola Olujobi

  Hundreds of residents of Ogijo, a boundary town between Lagos and Ogun state, Southwest Nigeria, have staged a peaceful protest over poor state of roads across the town. Describing the network of roads in the town as killer roads, the protesters led by President, Ogijo New Era Progressive Forum, Alhaja Abolore Owolewa also known as Alhaja Chicago, took to streets in Ogijo and environs to call on concerned authorities to come to their rescue. Owolewa who doubled as President, Television and Radio Callers Association, pleaded for quick intervention of…

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Banks downgrade Nigeria’s downstream oil sector’s credit ratings, flag N269bn debts

Efe Wellington

  N268.79 billion of the loans advanced by banks to the indigenous oil firms in Nigeria have been rated as non-performing. This poor rating, a report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) sighted by Platforms Africa showed, was recorded as of June, 2020. The report added that the nation’s oil and gas sector saw its contribution to the economy tumble in Q2 to 8.93 per cent from 9.50 per cent in Q1 as it recorded negative growth. The NBS said in August that the sector, which grew by 5.06…

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Nigeria’s North stages Pro-SARS rally as #ENDSARS protests spread in South + PHOTOS

Aliyu Aliyu

  Civil society organisations and trade unions in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, are currently on a street rally to express their displeasure over the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police by the federal government. This came as anti-SARS rage spread across the Southern part of the country. The protesters in the North said that they wanted SARS to continue operating in Borno State. The chairman of a coalition of CSOs in Borno, Ahmed Shehu, said though they are not happy with happenings in other parts…

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Football Legend Cristiano Ronaldo Tests Positive For COVID-19

Lukman Olasunkanmi

Five-time World Player of the Year and Portuguese forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has tested positive for Covid-19, Portugal’s Football Federation said in a statement on its website on Tuesday (Oct 13). The 35-year-old Juventus striker will miss Wednesday’s UEFA Nations League game against Sweden but is “well, has no symptoms and is in isolation”, the federation said. The federation added that the rest of the Portugal squad had undergone tests as a result of Ronaldo’s positive, but that they had all tested negative and would be available for the Sweden match,…

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Nigeria’s Presidential Panel Okays 5-Point Demand of #EndSARS Protesters

Damola Oyede

  The Presidential Panel on Police Reforms has approved immediate implementation of five-point demand of the protesters demanding end to police brutality by operatives of disbanded FSARS. A meeting conveyed by the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu and attended by stakeholders discussed the need to restore public confidence and trust in the police and resoved that following steps be taken immediately: An order by the Inspector General of Police to all State Commands to halt the use of force against protesters; Unconditional release of arrested protesters and citizens; Open…

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Man shatters COVID-19 infection record, gets Virus Twice With Second Hit ‘More Severe’

Wonuola Olujobi

  A man in the United States has caught Covid twice, with the second infection becoming far more dangerous than the first, doctors report. The 25-year-old needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body, reports the BBC. Reinfections remain rare and he has now recovered. But the study in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, raises questions about how much immunity can be built up to the virus. The man from Nevada had no known health problems or immune defects that would make him particularly vulnerable to…

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