Day: February 25, 2021

Why Bobrisky, Nkechi Blessing fought dirty on social media

Lukman Olasunkanmi

  The feud between cross dresser, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, popularly known as Bobrisky and actress, Nkechi Blessing appears not to be ending soon. The duo, on Thursday engaged in a heated exchange of words on Instagram, calling each other unprintable names and revealing dirty secrets about themselves. The fight started when Nkechi Blessing wrote a post on her page apologising to the female fan, who drew her as tattoo that she earlier condemned. A fan of Bobrisky commented under the post, insinuating that Nkechi Blessing wrote the apology out of…

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Exxon dips Oil reserves by 7.14bn bbls, most radical cut in firm’s history

Efe Wellington

  Exxon slashed its oil reserves by almost a third in what is the most radical reserve revision in the company’s modern history. The supermajor reported reserves totaling 15.3 billion barrels as of the end of 2020 in a regulatory filing, cited by Bloomberg. This compared with 22.44 billion barrels a year earlier. The biggest chunk of “deleted” assets came from Canadian oil sands: Exxon removed almost all of its oil sands holdings from its books as of the end of last year. This, however, does not mean they are gone forever.…

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Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote releases template for Arsenal takeover

Wonuola Olujobi

  Could this be the beginning of the end of Stan Kroenke’s somewhat unpopular ownership of Arsenal Football Club?   Arsenal for a number of years have been linked with Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, who has never shied away from his desire to buy the club. Now, developments are starting to take shape. The main caveat to Dangote’s bid to buy the Gunners has been the fact that he needs to free himself of delivering a brand-new oil refinery in his home country – one that will be the largest…

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Uproar as Ghana opens first Homosexual community centre

Aoko Benjamin

  Anti-homosexual outcry has forced Ghana’s first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened, its founder said on Tuesday. Church groups, politicians and anti-gay rights organisations have called on the government to shut down the centre, run by local charity LGBT+ Rights Ghana, and arrest and prosecute those involved. ‘We did not expect such an uproar,’ said Alex Kofi Donkor, director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana, which hosted the centre’s launch on January 31 attended by European and Australian diplomats. ‘We…

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Nigeria’s loss to crude theft hits $2.024bn in six months

Efe Wellington

  NNPC rallies Military as thieves carted away 36.8m barrels between August 2020 and January 2021 The Nigeria’s loss to crude oil theft to has hit $2.024 billion in the last six months. Group Managing Director of the Nigerina National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, who gave this hint, maintained that corporation loses an average of 200,000 daily to activities of crude oil thieves. NNPC is a Corporation in charge if Nigeria’s stakes in the oil industry and Mr. Kyari who heads the Corporation spoke when he led top…

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