Month: December 2020

Ghanaian visual artist wins 2020 Principal Prince Claus award

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Ghanaian visual artist, Ibrahim Mahama has been awarded the 2020 Principal Prince Claus Laurel. Ibrahim is actively involved in improving social conditions and his powerful artworks use provocative materials and sites to examine and expose histories, uphold the role of labour, challenge authorities and criticise mismanagement of resources. Directly addressing lack of opportunities and facilities in his home region, the Northern Region of Ghana, he has set up an open-access cultural centre and other social projects providing employment, education, studio space and creative activities. An event was held at…

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Why We Fired 300 Workers – Arik Air

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Management of Arik Air (in receivership) has declared that 300 sacked members of staff are redundant to its current level of operations. The airline, which said this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa, noted thst the leadership of the impacted unions have been contacted to negotiate a redundancy package for the affected staff. “It is important to note that over 50% of Arik Air’s workforce of over 1,600 staff has been on furlough in the past six months on a base allowance. “Decisions to let go off staff…

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Nigeria lost $3.8bn to foreign ship owners in 2 years – Indigenous firms

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Nigeria lost $3.8 billion to foreign ship owners in two years, the country’s Fleet Implementation Committee has declared. Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Hassan Bello, who stated this in Abuja added that the losses were suffered at the rate of $1.9 billion annually just as the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation (NNPC) expressed its readiness to support the indigenous shipping firms to enjoy greater patronage and participation in the oil and gas maritime business in Nigeria. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, gave the assurance while…

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How Prof Olufemi Peters emerged Vice Chancellor, Nigeria’s Open University

ADEOLA YUSUF

More details have come up on how Olufemi A. Peters, a Professor of Chemistry, emerged as the newly elected Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Peters, 64, beat six other candidates to clinch the coveted seat in a keenly contested race at the nation’s only single-mode Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institution. He is to take over the reins from the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five-year single tenure elapses on 10th February, 2021. Professor Peters, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, boasts an impressive…

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Nigeria Students Beg Buhari, Varsity Lecturers To Close Ranks, End Strike

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  Some students at the Nigerian Universities have passionately appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider their future by closing ranks and end the strike which has kept them at home since March 2020. They begged the lecturers’ union, ASUU, to resume work in their various institutions. Those who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged strike. The students said that they were tired and frustrated…

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Nigeria embargoes Diaspora remittance’s withdrawal in Naira

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  . Remittances now to be withdrawn in dollars – CBN The Nigeria’s apex bank, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), had announced  a new policy initiative, which would help to boost remittance inflows and foster an environment of faster, cheaper, and more convenient flow of remittances back to the country. The new policy which was unveiled by the Apex Bank on Monday, will become effective from Friday, 4th December, 2020. CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele who made the announcement while addressing stakeholders  in Abuja on Thursday said the new policy…

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1.9m Nigerians Living With HIV/AIDS – USAID

ADEOLA YUSUF

About 1.9 million Nigerians are living with HIV/AIDS. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which disclosed this, said it tested over three million Nigerians for HIV in 2020 and initiated 142,000 people on anti-retroviral therapy. The agency also quoted the latest report of the HIV/AIDS in the country, Nigeria HIV/ AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) to validate the data. The disclosure came at a ceremony where USAID and telecoms infrastructure giant, IHS Nigeria, donated 70,000 rapid test kits to the Bayelsa State government in support of the…

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Trump says ‘Biden Can’t Be President’ if Election Fraud Claims are verified

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President Trump is once again charging that last month’s presidential election was rigged and rampant with fraud. In an address posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages that the president described as possibly “the most important speech, I’ve ever made,” Trump charged that “lots of bad things happened” during the election. And he argued that “if we are right about the fraud, Joe Biden can’t be president. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of votes. We’re talking about numbers like nobody has ever seen before.” Taking aim again at the surge in absentee balloting and…

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EKEDC deepens CSR investments, donates Ventilators to LUTH, LASUTH

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  Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Thursday deepened its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) investments with donation of two ventilators to tertiary hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The two tertiary hospitals – Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) – received the equipments at separate occasions. Managing Director, EKEDC, Engineer Adeoye Fadebiyi, was represented by Company Secretary and Chief Legal Office, Eko DisCos, Wola Joseph, to donate the ventilator to LASUTH while the Chief Human Resource officer, Mr. Aik Alenkhe, represented him by leading…

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COVID-19: Restrict International Flights Now – MURIC urges Nigeria          

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  Following reports worldwide indicating a second coming of the dreaded Corona virus, the Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on the Nigerisn Government to restrict international flights immediately. This was contained in a press statement issued by the director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday, 3rd December, 2020. The statement reads: “The second coming of COVID-19 is definitely more severe. According to Wikipedia, the deadly virus has killed 1.49 million people globally. 64.2 million have been infected while 41.2 million have recovered from…

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