Month: October 2020

#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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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Labour Unions did not betray you over strike – Govt. tells workers, Nigerians

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria Government says contrary to the opinion of some Nigerians, Organised Labour neither compromised nor betrayed workers in the negotiations that led to the suspension of its planned strike. The country’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this on Friday when he featured on TV Continental call-in programme: “This Morning.” The programme, which centred on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, was monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. NAN recalls that the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and their affiliates recently…

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How Ghana embargoed refund of $17,500 I borrowed country for 44 years – Boxing Legend D.K Poison

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Former President Rawlings has described as commendable, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s approval to refund a sum of $45,000 that the state owed former World Boxing Champion David Kotei, popularly known as D.K. Poison. A petition the boxing legend, D.K. Poison and his lawyers presented to the Presidency in September 2019 sighted by Platforms Africa,  however, showed details of the loan he offered the country in 1976. In the petition, they sought a refund of the money D.K. Poison loaned to the state of Ghana over the four decades ago. The…

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Nigeria’s ‘#EndSARS Protesters’ Kill Policeman, Steal AK-47 rifle – Commissioner

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Hoodlums among #EndSARS Protesters allegedly sponsored by Yahoo Boys attacked a police patrol team, killing one officer, injuring another, and stealing an AK47 rifle. The Commissioner of Police, CP Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, who declared this, described the incident as provocative, cruel and unwarranted. “Henceforth, any violent protest and attack on policemen will be viewed seriously and resisted with minimum force. “The convener or organizer of such a protest will be held liable and made to face the full wrath of the law along with any other person(s) connected with…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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!

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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IPPIS: Buhari, Varsity Lecturers’ bickering worsens, dashes students’ resumption hope

ADEOLA YUSUF

No IPPIS enrolment, no Salary – President vows With IPPIS, no work – Lecturers union declares No end in sight to the seven months’ sitting at home by students of the public Universities in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no civil servant, including their lecturers on the payroll of the Federal Government will receive salary henceforth without enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike over disagreement with the Federal Government on the mode…

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PITY! NULGE President slumps, dies in Abuja

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The President of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Mr Ibrahim Khaleel, has slumped and died in Abuja. Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ekiti State Chapter, who, on Thursday, confirmed this incident, described Khaleed’s death as a great loss. The congress, in its condolence letter, signed by its Chairman, Comrade Kolapo Olatunde, in Ado-Ekiti, said Khaleel’s death was a great loss, not only to the entire labour movement but also Nigeria as a whole. According to the letter, the deceased contributed positively to the welfare development of labour…

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