Month: December 2020

How Zambia ex-President, Kaunda, won Mahatma Gandhi Memento

ADEOLA YUSUF

Zambia’s First Republican President, Kenneth Kaunda, has received a memento from Gandhi Smriti, a museum where India’s icon Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. The memento was presented to Dr. Kaunda in Lusaka by Zambia’s High Commissioner to India, Judith Kapijimpanga, according to local media reports on Friday. The memento was first presented in New Delhi, India, when the Zambian High Commissioner held a day’s exhibition in honour of Dr. Kaunda’s contributions to Africa and global peace efforts, at a function that attracted diplomats from Malawi, Tanzania and the academia. Kapijimpanga said…

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Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu Tests for COVID-19, goes into isolation

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has gone into self-isolation, the state government said on Friday. It added that the governor tested three times for COVID-19 but did not mention his status after the tests. This was contained in a statement entitled ‘Sanwo-Olu goes into self-isolation’ by the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. He said one of the close aides to Sanwo-Olu tested positive for coronavirus, necessitating the governor to isolate. However, Abayomi did not state the COVID-19 status of the governor. The…

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Biden in leaked audio says Republicans beat ‘living hell out of us’ -Report

ADEOLA YUSUF

  United States (U.S.) President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly said that the Republican Party “beat the living hell out of us” in the November 3 election, due to calls by Democrats to defund the police. Biden made the remarks in a leaked audio from a virtual meeting he had with a group of civil rights leaders on Thursday, according to Fox News. The report did not say whether the former Vice-President meant losing the election or referring to the below-expectation performance of the Democratic Party in the congressional polls. The former…

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Shell dismisses alleged staff involvement in pipeline vandalism

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has dismissed a report alleging that its staff were involved in crude oil pipeline vandalism for a gain, describing the report as lacking substance and without proof. “SPDC does not have any formal report of named SPDC staff members or contractors involved in pipeline vandalism or crude oil theft,” SPDC’s Media Relations Manager, Bamidele Odugbesan, said in a statement on Thursday. “SPDC, like other Shell companies globally, investigates all credible reports it receives of misconduct or unethical behaviour and takes robust action…

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Nigerian Army General dies at COAS Annual Confab, raises COVID-19 scare

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The General Officer Commanding of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Major General Olubunmi Irefin, is dead. His death has reportedly raised COVID-19 scare aming military leadership in the Africa’s most populous nation. According to available information, the amiable General died at the ongoing Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference, which was hurriedly discontinued over the development. Information had filtered in earlier in the day that the COAS Annual Conference was discontinued because a participant tested positive for COVID-19. The spokesman of the…

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Troubles as Ghana Ex-President Mahama’s Party rejects Akufo-Addo’s Victory

ADEOLA YUSUF

An official result declared by the Ghana’s Electoral Commission which showed the incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner, has been rejected, a move that has started to heat up the polity and caused tension in the West Africa nation. Ghana Police also confirned that five people were killed in election-related violence. The ex-President John Mahama’s National Democratic Congress party has been talking tough as it rejected the results. The party stated this at a press conference where it also described the result as terribly flawed. A party chieftain, Haruna…

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High-Profile Executives’ Resignations Rock Shell

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Royal Dutch Shell has been hit by the departure of several high-profile executives in clean energy amid a split over how far and fast the oil giant should shift towards greener fuels, Financial Times (FT) has reported. Marc van Gerven, who headed the solar, storage and onshore wind businesses at Shell, Eric Bradley, who worked in Shell’s distributed energy division, and Katherine Dixon, a leader in its energy transition strategy team, have all left the company in recent weeks. Dorine Bosman, Shell’s vice-president for offshore wind, is also due…

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Ghana President, Akufo-Addo, 76, Wins Second Term

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  The Ghanaian Electoral Commission has declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, 76 year-old Nana Akufo-Addo, winner of the 2020 presidential election. The Commission said that Akufo-Addo, the incumbent president, polled 6,730,413 representing 51.59 percent of votes cast to defeat a former president and candidate of National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, who recorded 6,214,889 or 47.36 percent of the votes. The results follow a contentious poll that both candidates had said they were leading based on their camps’ tallies which led to violence that claimed no fewer than…

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Nigeria embargoes New SIM Cards’ Sale for MTN, Glo, others

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  The Nigerian Government has directed telecommunication companies across the country to halt the sale registration and activation of new Subscriber Identity Module, known better as SIM card. Thw Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which issued this embargo in a statement to Platforms Africa, explained that the directive had become imperative to pave way for an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, said that the move was to allow the commission focus on the task ahead and ensure all bottlenecks are…

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Lagos Criminalises Burying Dead Bodies Within Residence

ADEOLA YUSUF

Dead residents or indigenes of Lagos, including landlords and land owners, are no longer allowed to be buried in their house premises or any other parts of residential areas. As part of measures to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases across Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, the state government has banned the burying of dead bodies within residential premises across the state. This is coming as the state also prohibited the usage of residential areas as morgues, embalmment centers, and burial sites in the state. The Executive Secretary of Lagos State…

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