Day: February 23, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Dangote fertiliser hits market Q2, refinery for completion 2022

Efe Wellington

  Here is why Nigeria’s Senate declared that supporting the Dangote Refinery is a matter of life and death + How Refinery Chief demanded exemption from extractive host community levy, third party interference in PIB       The Dangote fertiliser has been scheduled to hit the market before the second quarter of this year, Platforms Africa gathered exclusively on Tuesday. A top member of the technical team for the multi-million dollars asset, who said this to this leading online newspaper after his anpnymity was assured during a tour of…

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How Shell Oil Services staff, lured by “lady” on dating site, was murdered

Precious Ibekwe

  A man, Progress Benin Disi, a worker with Shell Oil Services Company, has been killed after hooking up with a supposed “lady” on a dating site. Tinder. The “lady” lured him to an isolated area and killed him. Unfortunately, he didn’t know the “lady” he had been chatting with on the dating site was actually a man and member of a five-man gang, which specialised in using dating sites to lure people to lonely spots and thereafter collect their valuables. Shell Oil Services Company, where Disi worked, is not…

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Nigeria’s ex-Service Chiefs scale last hurdle as Ambassador-designates

Dawood Rabiu

    The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the appointment of former service chiefs as non-career ambassadors-designate. Their confirmation followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Mohammed Bulkachuwa. President, Ahmad Lawan, had on February 10, directed the Committee on Foreign Affairs to confirm General Abayomi Olonisakin (retd.) (Ekiti); Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.) (Borno); Vice Admiral Ibok- Ette Ibas (retd.) (Cross River; Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar(retd.) (Bauchi); and Air Vice Marshal Muhammad S. Usman (retd.) (Kano) as non-career ambassadors of the Federal Republic of…

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Nigeria’s situation shows leaders uninterested in God’s Kingdom – Obasanjo

Gbenga Adeoti

  Nigeria’s ex-President revealed how he altered Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway construction Masterplan for C&S Founder, Moses Orimola’s tomb, Church   Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to start living in the consciousness of God’s Kingdom. He said the series of developments being recorded across the country have proved that the people are not prepared for it. The former president, who was the Guest of Honour at the dedication of St. Moses Orimolade Holy Land, the Cenotaph of C&S Founder, at Ojokoro, Ijaye, Lagos State, yesterday, maintained that most people…

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UNILAG records 95% success in non-physical Post UTME

Gbenga Adeoti

  The University of Lagos says its current non-physical Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (PUTME) has achieved 95 per cent success as against reports in some quarters that it was unreliable and inefficient. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe stated this while conducting newsmen round the facilities used in the conduct of the examination on Monday in Lagos. According to him, the cloud-based computer-based testing solution used for the conduct of the 2020/2021 post UTME of the institution is a versatile, easy to use tool for conducting online…

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