Buhari To Reopen Nigeria’s Land Borders – Finance Minister

  The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian Government says plans were on to reopen the nation’s land borders which were shut in 2019. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview with State House correspondents. The nation’s land borders have been closed since August 2019 as parts of efforts to curtail illegal importation of drugs, small arms and agricultural products into country from neighbouring West African nations. Ahmed, according to a report by The PUNCH, said the presidential committee set up on the matter has completed its…

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How Football Legend, Maradona, died days after 60th birthday – Lawyer

  Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has died at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack. Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona, 60, dies of a heart attack just two weeks after being released from hospital after treatment for bleed on his brain, Daily Mail reported his lawyer to have said. The Argentinian football legend died at home, his lawyer said, just days after he turned 60 and just three weeks after having surgery on a blot clot in his brain. Maradona won the World Cup with Argentina in…

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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: A ‘PROPHESY’ ON POLITICS OF COLOUR BY KOLA ADESINA

  Kola Adesina, PhD, second black News Editor of West Africa Magazine, London, wrote this article 27 years ago. The prediction made therein by Adesina, now a foremost Scholar of Communication, is being exemplified by Donald Trump in America and other political leaders in Europe. Platforms Africa, after due approval of the author, reproduces the ‘prophesy,’ first published in 1993, here.   WELCOME TO THE FUTURE The army of race hate founded by the likes of the Ku Klux Klan in America and mushroom groupings across Europe is yet to…

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NEITI commends UERL, advances Nigeria’s 2019 oil industry audit

The transparency group commends Universal Energy Resources Limited (UERL) for Audit Filling Compliance in a letter signed by Waziri Adio, its Executive Secretary.    The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has commended Universal Energy Resources Limited (UERL), a subsidiary company of Savannah Energy, over its performance in terms of compliance and provision of requested industry data. This came as the industry’s transparency group advanced the data collection exercise for the Nigeria’s 2019 oil and gas audit. According to NEITI, Universal Energy Resources Limited was rated 100% based on the…

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Niger’s ex-President Mamadou Tandja dies at 82

  Former Niger President Mamadou Tandja has died at agef 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, who was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010, was eventually overthrown in a coup d’etat after trying to change the constitution to extend his grip on power. Niger’s government announced three days of national mourning for the former leader of the West African nation. The government said Tandja died Tuesday in Niamey, the capital, though it did not specify a cause of death. Tandja had, according to a report by AFP, …

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Repay our loans, Nigeria tells TraderMoni beneficiaries

  Beneficiaries of TraderMoni, FarmerMoni, MarketMoni under the Nigerian Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) have been urged to repay their loans. This, GEEP an agency of government said in a tweet sighted by Platforms Africa, becomes necessary in order to enable them to get a higher loan and to have access to other GEEP products. The disclosure was made by the government agency through the tweet on its verified account. The call is also sequel to concerns over the repayment of the empowerment funds as stipulated in the terms and…

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Nigerian Professor’s daughter dies after obtaining seven A1s in WASSCE

  She promised me a special birthday gift and died a day to my birthday – father   Chisom, daughter of a Professor and Consultant Surgeon at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Nsukka, Felix Chukwuneke, has died. Her father took to social media to mourn his Chisom, who died on October 18, 2020. She died barely a year after being named the best graduating student of Graceland School, Enugu, a report by Punch read. Chisom, according to the school, obtained seven distinctions at the West African Senior School Certificate…

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