Day: November 12, 2020

Evacuate Us from here, 753 Nigerian Traders in Ghana beg Buhari

Aoko Benjamin

  Nigerian traders in Ghana on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to evacuate them from Ghana. The traders, in a Save-Our-Soul letter delivered to the Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said they were seeking a secure and peaceful return to Nigeria. In a statement signed by Gabriel Odu, NiDCOM’s Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit, said the traders belonged to two associations in Ghana, the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG) and the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS). According to Odu,…

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NLNG mulls 100,000MT surge in Cooking gas supply to Nigerian market 2021

Efe Wellington

Managing Director, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, Mr. Tony Attah, has said that the company would increase its allocation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to the domestic market from 350, 000MT to 450, 000MT by 2021. The move, according to Attah, was aimed at supporting the Federal Government’s plan to deepen LPG (cooking gas) penetration in Nigeria. He said the declaration of the year 2020 as the Year of Gas by the Federal Government was not sufficient, stressing that a decade should be dedicated to utilisation of gas to transform…

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Two killed as Lagos suffers first Bullion Van Armed Robbery in decades

Gbenga Adeoti

  Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Thursday suffered a major armed robbery attack on a bullion van in which two people were feared killed. The last time a bullion van was attacked on Lagos road was about two decades ago. The Thursday’s attack disrupted activities on Ado road in Ajah, Eti-Osa Local Government, when the gunmen attacked the bullion van and carted away the huge sum of cash found in it. During the attack that lasted for several minutes, atleast two persons were said to have been killed by the…

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How Ghana ex-President Rawlings died 19 days after mother’s burial

Aoko Benjamin

  More facts have emerged on how one of the Africa’s military strongmen, a former military President of Ghana who fired and escaped several bullets, Jerry Rawlings, was reportedly killed by COVID-19. His family has however denied that he was killed by COVID-19. Rawlings, a coup leader earlier escaped death after he was imprisoned, publicly court-martialed and sentenced to death in 1979. He died on Thursday at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on Thursday morning, exactly two weeks after he buried his mother, Victoria Agbotui. A flight…

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‘How repentant Boko Haram aided General’s killing, 75 elders’ slaughtering’

Aliyu Aliyu

More revelations have been made on how a so-called repentant member of Boko Haram aided the killing of a General in Nigerian Army as well as the slaughtering of 75 elders in Nigeria. The revelaruons made by a member od Senate have made the uoper legislative arm to ask President Muhammad Buhari to expedite action on the prosecution of known sponsors of the Boko Haram sect, currently prosecuting insurgency in the country. The Senate Committee on Army made this known during a press conference on Wednesday shortly after the representative…

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