Day: December 14, 2020

Heart Attack: Why You May Be At Risk

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Many people now involve themselves, unconsciously, in acts that damage their hearts. Health Policy analyst and Managing Director, Solomon Jayden Medical Centre, Dr. Akin OYEJOKO, in this interview as a lead discussant on Platforms Africa e-discourse, gives a step-by-step admonition on harmful acts to avoid in evading a heart attack. Excerpts;   What is your assessment of Nigerians (African) behaviour recently towards observing COVID-19 protocols? Have we let down our guards on Face Masks and other measures? Am sorry to say, my impression is that Nigerians no longer seem…

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Digital Transformation: SystemSpecs MD, Obaro, calls Attention to Cybersecurity

ADEOLA YUSUF

    As the pace of digital transformation ramps up across the world with increased use of data and cloud technology by organisations and governments, technology experts have called for a renewed focus on cybersecurity to ensure data protection and privacy. Managing Director of financial technology and human resources solutions powerhouse, SystemSpecs, John Obaro, stated that the increasing spate of cyber-attacks and the role of malicious insiders indicate that traditional approaches to data security are no longer sufficient. Therefore, individuals, organisations and governments must be one or more steps ahead…

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NCDMB offers $30m loans, crashes interest rate to 8% for local oil firms

ADEOLA YUSUF

NCDMB offers $30m loans, crashes interest rate to 8% for local oil firms     The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) on Monday signed an agreement on US$30m Working Capital Scheme that will support the operations of oil companies against the adverse effects of COVID-19 Pandemic and loss of contracts due to low oil price. The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote and the Chairman of PETAN, Mr. Nicolas Odinuwe signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the…

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104m Nigerians to be extremely Poor by 2022–World Bank

Damola Oyede

  Why 20m more Nigerians’ll sink into extreme poverty by 2022 – World Bank   The World Bank projects that the number of poor people in Nigeria will increase by 20 million by 2022. With that number, the number of extremely poor Nigerians will become 104 million in the next two years. According to the bank’s Nigeria Development Update (NDU), an average Nigerian may witness a setback of decades of economic growth and the country could enter its deepest recession since the 1980s. Shubham Chaudhuri, the bank’s country director for…

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547 Benin Republic School Pupils Raped, impregnated during Lockdown -Report

Aoko Benjamin

  547 pregnancies were recorded in secondary schools of Benin’s northeastern department of Borgou during the 2019-2020 school year, the Beninese news agency, ABP has reported. ABP quoted Thomas Adam, a Representative of the child protection department of Secondary education and professional and technical training ministry that more cases were recorded this year against 2018-2019. “Altogether, 547 out of 36,487 school girls regularly registered were pregnant during the 2019-2020 school year as against 431 cases in 2018-2019,” Adam said. Adam attributed the increase in the cases of pregnancies to the long…

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How Nigerian Petroleum Ministry Staff paid Self N145m — Report

Precious Ibekwe

  The Nigerian Senate, based on a report, has unravelled how a Management staff of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources paid N145 million media campaign fund on the Petroleum Industrial Bill to himself instead of awarding the contract to competent and technically experienced companies. The allegation was contained in the 2015 Auditor General Report, which was submitted to the Senate Committee on Public Account, chaired by Senator Mathew Urhoghide. The query reads: “The total sum of N145 million was approved by the Ministerial Tender Board and paid to a management…

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Head of Nigeria’s COVID-19 Task Force, Wife quarantined

Aliyu Aliyu

  Some household members  of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF Boss Mustapha have tested positive for COVID 19. The SGF disclosed this in a statement  he personally signed Sunday. Mustapha who is also the Chairman, Presidential Task Force, PTF on Covid-19 said he has gone into self -isolation. He said, “My wife and I tested negative, but will remain in self-isolation and work from home according to protocols by the health authorities.” Mustapha’s statement reads thus: “I would like to inform the general public that some…

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NLNG inks Deals with Bonny Kingdom, Julius Berger for historic Consulate  

Efe Wellington

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Bonny Kingdom and Julius Berger Nigeria Limited (JBN) for the reconstruction of the Bonny Consulate Building, a 19th century historic landmark in Bonny Kingdom. The MoU was signed in Bonny by NLNG’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Engr. Tony Attah on behalf of the company and JBN’s Managing Director, Dr. Lars Richter on behalf of JBN in the presence of the Amanyanabo of Grand Bonny Kingdom, His Majesty, King Edward Asimini William Dappa Pepple III, JP, CON, Perekule XI. The…

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