Month: February 2021

Nigeria shifts NIN-SIM linkage deadline by two months

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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Seplat raises $260m to complete ANOH project, drive energy transition

ADEOLA YUSUF

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc (“Seplat” or the “Company”), a Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, announces that its Incorporated Joint Venture (“IJV”), the ANOH Gas Processing Company (“AGPC”), has successfully raised US$260m in debt to fund completion of its ANOH Gas Processing Plant (“ANOH”). The 300MMscfd capacity ANOH plant, located on OML 53 in Imo State, is being built by AGPC, which is an IJV owned equally between Seplat and the Nigerian Gas Company (“NGC”), a wholly owned subsidiary…

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Why Niger Republic’s Court ordered rerun Presidential election Feb. 21

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Niger Republic’s Constitutional Court has confirmed that a second round of the presidential election is to be held on February 21. The court, in a ruling pronounced on Sunday, noted that no candidate had obtained an absolute majority of votes in the first round” — whose annulment, partial or total cancellation claimed by opposition candidates was rejected by the Court. “The Court receives the request of the President of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) in the form, validates and proclaims the final results of the first round of the…

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Outcry as Soldiers take over Myanmar, pack civilian leaders in detention

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Democracy has heen suspended, State of emergency declared for the next one year in Myanmar, Military declared. Outcry has greeted the military coup in Myanmar in which the military seized power after detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party. All authority has been given to the top army commander and a one-year state of emergency has been declared, a statement on military TV said. The coup follows a landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD). She…

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Oyeweso, Distinguished Historian, Ascends the Sixth Floor, By Tunde Akanni

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Incontrovertibly one of the most intellectually engaging historians of our time, Professor Abdul Gafar Siyan Oyeweso, manifests by the day in several discourses on account of his selfless services. I had just been part of a radio programme on Friday, January 8, 2021 when one of the promoters of the online broadcaster, Spirit of Nigeria, Dotun Atilade, called me. In rounding off his appreciation to me he reminded me that most people from my birthplace of Ede, Osun State, are selfless.  Thus began quite a sweet recall of a…

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