Day: November 5, 2020

Panic as Fire guts OVH Energy’s major fuel Tankfarm in Lagos + PHOTOS

Gbenga Adeoti

One of the major petroleum products’ Tankfarms in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has been razed, an incident that created pandemonium among residents of Apapa area of the city. The tankfarm belonging to OVH Energy but was branded in Oando’s name and logo is located in Marine beach, few meters from other petroleum products storage facilities in Nigeria. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the fire incident noting that fire fighters and equipments from three centres – Federal Fire, NIMASA FIRE Services and Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) Services have been mobilised.…

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US Election: Violent Protests Erupt In Oregon  

Wonuola Olujobi

Hundreds of state police and left-wing protesters have been locked in a tense standoff in downtown Portland. This came after rampaging anti-Trump groups smashed shop windows a day after the election, prompting the state governor to activate the National Guard. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s office declared a riot and made at least nine arrests, citing “widespread violence” in the city’s downtown area and repeatedly warning it could deploy munitions and tear gas. Armed police advanced on demonstrators in unison but there were no clashes, according to a reporter at the…

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US election: Trump’s Team goes to Court in battleground states

Wonuola Olujobi

  President Trump’s team launched a series of lawsuits in key battleground states that? According to CNN, seemed less about sound legal reasoning and more about slowing Joe Biden from marching over the electoral vote threshold. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, as at press time, leads the race for the presidency with 253 electoral votes. President Trump has 213 electoral votes. It’s still too close to call in six states: Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Based on CNN’s latest projections, this is where the race to 270 currently…

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US Risks Zimbabwe Sanctions If Elections Are Not Free, Fair?

Aoko Benjamin

  United States Risks Zimbabwe Sanctions If Elections Are Not Free And Fair? A Zimbabwean news blog, PaZimbabwe has provided some much-needed humour in dousing tension by satirically reporting that authorities in the tiny nation of Zimbabwe will slap the World’s superpower with sanctions if their Elections Are Not Free And Fair. Zimbabwe is infamous world over for its troubles such as hyper-inflation and hotly disputed elections and the chaotic land reform program that saw the Southern African Nation country being slapped with a litany of sanctions by First world…

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Nigeria’s Electricity Regulator budgets N2bn for Office furniture, others

Aliyu Aliyu

  Electricity industry regulator in Nigeria has budgetted N2 billion for furniture and partitioning of office space at its headquarters in Abuja, administrative capital of the country. Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) particularly wanted the legislators to approve this spending, saying it requires a total of this N2 billion in the 2021 Budget, to partition and furnish its headquarters. Chairman of NERC, Prof. James Momoh, disclosed this yesterday at a budget defence with the House of Representatives Committee on Power. He said the partitioning and furnishing of the eight-floor headquarters…

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