Month: November 2020

Nigeria Phases Out N1.8trn Power sector’s Intervention Fund

Damola Oyede

  President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the scraping of the Power Assistance Fund (PAF) domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and targeted at supporting tariff shortfalls, as well as other interventions in the power sector. A document made available to the Senate revealed that the interventions had gulped a whopping N1.8 trillion since the beginning of power privatisation on November 1, 2013. Buhari, who made this announcement in Lagos, during the commissioning of the power system’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) project centre put in place by…

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BREAKING! Nigeria’s Ondo Popular Monarch assassinated + Photos

Gbenga Adeoti

  A popular monarch in Ondo state, Southwest Nigeria, Olufon of Ifon, Oba Isreal Adeusi, was said to have been assassinated by gunmen that attacked his vehicle at Elegbeka axis of the state. As gathered, aside from the monarch, other two occupants of the vehicle were unhurt by the gunmen who also did not leave with any of the traditional ruler’s belongings after perpetrating the act. It was learnt that the monarch’s vehicle was attacked by the gunmen at about 4pm on Thursday while returning from Akure, the state capital,…

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Buhari commissions West Africa’s first Power sector SCADA system by EKEDC

Damilola Olonade

Buhari commends EKEDC for milestone   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned the power system’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) project centre put in place by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in Lagos, which he decribed as the first functional SCADA in West Africa. The centre for SCADA is one of the most advanced technologies in the power distribution business globally, and Buhari declared optimism that the system would translate to improved service delivery to customers within EKEDC’s network. Represented by the minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, the…

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Foul Play? Argentine Prosecutor awaits autopsy on Maradona’s corpse 

Aoko Benjamin

  Prosecutor general of the Argentinian town of San Isidro, John Broyad, said he awaited the result of an autopsy on the corpse of football legend, Diego Maradona. Isidro however said that Maradona’s body did not show “any sign of violence” and everything indicates that he died of “natural causes.” According to him, the Argentinian football legend died at “around 12:00” local time (11pm Singapore time) on Wednesday at his home in the neighbourhood of San Andres, on the northern outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires, reports Xinxua. In statements…

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Why I wanted to sell my 3 month-old son for $375 – Nigeria Woman tells Police

Precious Ibekwe

  A 21 year old Nigeria woman, Emila Sunday from Akwa Ibom State, arrested by policemen in Anambra state for trying to sell her three months baby boy for about N150,000 ($375 based on N400 per dollar) has reportedly told the Police real reason she took the dastardly action. The Police spokesman, SP Haruna Mohammed, who stated this, noted that the suspect who was arrested while attempting to sell her three months old baby boy, claimed that she wanted to sell the boy due to hardship. She was arrested in…

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Role Fidelity Bank, staff played in Nigeria’s N1.5bn Pension scam – EFCC

Wonuola Olujobi

. Anti-graft agency shows how Nigeria’s ex-official, Oronsaye, operated 66 accounts unknown to Accountant-General The testimonies against Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Nigeria’s Pension Reform Task Force Team (PRTFT), continued on Wednesday before Justice Okong Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, with that of the ninth prosecution witness, (PW9), Rouqayyah Ibrahim, a principal investigation officer with the EFCC who narrated how Fidelity Bank allegedly played a role in the whole scenerio. Ibrahim is in Anti Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing (AML CFT) unit of the Commission and member, Pension…

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Shell surges CSR investments, Donates ICT Centre To Nigeria’s Enugu Varsity

Efe Wellington

  Nigeria’s deep-water energy company, The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) has donated a state-of-the-art  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre to the Enugu State University of Science and Technology as part of the NNPC/SNEPCo ICT support programme launched in 2007 under the sponsorship of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The company, which declared this in a statement to Platforms Africa, quoted its Managing Director, Bayo Ojulari, to have said that the ICT centre would help students and teachers to maximize the value of quality education in information…

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Buhari To Reopen Nigeria’s Land Borders – Finance Minister

Aliyu Aliyu

  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

Gbenga Adeot

  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

  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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