Day: November 3, 2020

Nigeria closer to agreement with Varsity Lecturers over strike – Minister

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Nigeria Government has said it was close to resolving its diaagreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said this during a town hall meeting in Bauchi on Monday with the youths of Bauchi State. Adamu said once the areas of disagreement are resolved, the university lecturers will call off their strike. The major area of disagreement with the lecturers, who had been on strike since March 2020, has been the mode of their payment. While the Federal Government says all its…

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Nigeria’s Lekki Tollgate CCTV ‘tampered with’ – Operator

Gbenga Adeoti

  The facility the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras at the Lekki Toll Gate, where #EndSARS protesters were shot, two weeks ago, was linked to had been “tampered” with and had been burnt. The helmsman at the company, which runs the gate, Abayomi  Omomuwasan, who declared this, added hat the video didn’t capture the whole evening. Omomuwasan, the managing director of the Lekki Concession Company, told a judicial panel which is investigating the events of 20 October that the CCTV had stopped recording at 20:00. He said a facility the…

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OML 40 suffers 2nd explosion in 4 months, shuts-in 10,000 barrels

Efe Wellington

Another explosion on Tuesday, November 3, rocked a production facility in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 40, impacting about 10,000 barrels of oil per day. The explosion, checks by Platforms  Africa showed, occured four months after a similar incident at the same OML 40 killed seven people in July this year. The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which confirmed this in a late night statement on Tuesday, added that no casualty or injury was recorded from the explosion. The statement issued…

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How #EndSARS Promoter was arrested at Airport, stopped From Travelling

Precious Ibekwe

  A promoter of the #EndSARS movement, Modupe Odele, has been arrested at the airport by the Nigerian Immigration Service on her way out of Nigeria Odele was also prevented from travelling. Although the officers did not disclose the reason for their action, it is believed that the action was taken because of her alleged role in the #EndSARS protests. Odele, had through her Twitter handle, @Mochievous, mobilised her 219,000 followers during the protests. She had also offered free legal aid to persons who were unjustly arrested during the demonstrations.…

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