Month: February 2021

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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Meet Tope Adeboboye, new Editor Saturday SUN newspaper

Tade Salako

    The Board of Directors of The Sun Publishing Limited has approved the appointment of Tope Adeboboye as acting Editor, Saturday Sun. Adeboboye, Platforms Africa gathered,  replaced Femi Babafemi who is proceeding on a leave of absence, having been appointed Director, Media and Advocacy of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Adeboboye, until his appointment an Assistant Editor (Features), attended the University of Ibadan, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts. He also holds a Diploma in Desktop Publishing, Lagos Secretarial and Computer College, Yaba.…

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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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‘800 people’ massacred at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant

Aoko Benjamin

‘800 people’ massacred at Ethiopia’s Ark of the Covenant   Some 800 people were reportedly killed during a massacre at a Christian church in Axum, Ethiopia, where worshippers believe the Ark of the Covenant is housed. The church of St Mary of Zion became a place of refuge for Ethiopians in the Tigray region fleeing the country’s civil war. It came under siege last year amid clashes between government forces and rebel militia, resulting in hundreds of deaths, which have only become public knowledge now. Due to Tigray’s phone lines…

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