Day: February 2, 2021

Kyari: Buhari, only Nigerian President that has never interfered in NNPC

Efe Wellington

  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari remains the only president that has never interfered in the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, who, according to a press release,  declared this in Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria, while delivering the Usmanu Danfodiyo University’s 2021 First Quarter Public Lecture Series, commended President Buhari for giving the Corporation’s Management free-hand to deliver on its mandate. Speaking on the topic, “Navigating Energy Transition and the Imperatives of University-Industry Collaboration,” Kyari added, according to a statement issued…

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Nigeria shifts NIN-SIM linkage deadline by two months

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Federal Government has extended the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise by eight weeks, with a new deadline of April 6. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde on Tuesday made available to Platforms Africa. He said the extension was ordered by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami after the meeting of the Ministerial Task force on NIN-SIM registration. Pantami, stated that the extension was to give Nigerians and…

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Vice Chancellor arrested, detained over alleged N260m contract scam

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Vice Chancellor, Federal University Gusau, Prof. Magaji Garba has been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N260 million contract scam. A competent source at the anti-graft agency disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the Vice-Chancellor was still being held at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja as at the time of filling this report. The source said that the accused, sometime in 2018 fraudulently obtained the sum of N260 million from a contractor, Alhaji Shehu…

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How Prince Tony Momoh was hospitalised, died 85 days to 82nd birthday

Tade Salako

  The son of Prince Tony Momoh, former minister of information and culture in Nigeria, Abdulrasheed Momoh, has given details of how his father, who was hospitalised in Abuja, passed on exactly 85 days to his 82nd birthday. The late Momoh, a journalist and elder stateman, was born as the 165th child of King Momoh I of Auchi on April 27, 1939 in Auchi, Edo State, South-South Nigeria. Confirming his death, his son, Abdulrasheed said his father breathed his last in a private hospital in Abuja, Monday afternoon. ‘’Daddy has…

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Nigeria declares Kogi, State heads by COVID-19 denier, as High risk Area

Dawood Rabiu

  Governor of Kogi, a transit point and confluence state, Yahaya Bello, who did not only deny the existence of COVID-19 but also warned his citizens against being vaccinated, is being tipped by followers to vie as next President of Nigeria   The Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has declared one of the 36 states in the country, Kogi, a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease. The PTF also said that the Kogi government had failed to report testing, lacked isolation centers and therefore…

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Americans naming China as Africa’s new colonial master Insulting — Obasanjo

Damilola Olonade

  Obasanjo comes down hard on some Americans as well as African leaders; “The amount of American treasury China is holding, if they unleash it on the world, America will feel it. …China not to blame, it is the stupidity of governments (in Africa) that go on borrowing with nothing to show for it.”     Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he feels insulted any time he is asked in America: “How are your new colonial masters.” The question, according to Obasanjo, comes regarding the huge loans…

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