Month: February 2021

BREAKING: Former Lagos governor, Lateef Jakande, dies at 91

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Here is the full script on the man Jakande and His many Legacies. A former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lateef Jakande, is dead. Jakande, according to a family source, died at the age of 91. Popularly called Lateef Kayode Jakande, he was born in the Epetedo area of Lagos Island, Lagos State on 29 July 1929. Both parents are from Omu-Aran, Kwara State. He studied at the Lagos public school at Enu-Owa, Lagos Island, then at Bunham Memorial Methodist School, Port Harcourt (1934–43). He studied briefly at King’s College, Lagos in 1943, and then enrolled at Ilesha…

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Why we launched mobile App – GM, Lagos Traffic Radio

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Lagos Traffic Radio 96.1FM, the foremost traffic and transportation radio station in Nigeria, has launched a Mobile App to enhance the prompt and timely dissemination of traffic advisory and information to enable road users navigate smoothly across the metropolis on a daily basis. A statement signed by its General Manager, Mr. Tayo Akanle, stated that the Mobile App, tagged: “Lagos Traffic Radio 96.1FM,” is an innovative way of providing an additional platform to boost listenership and strengthen the existing relationship with the public. “The Mobile App will complement the…

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Fani-Kayode saw light, approached me with request to join APC — Gov. Bello

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Governor of Kogi state, North-Central Nigeria, Yahaya Bello, has said a former Minister of Aviation and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined the All Progressives Congress. Bello who said this in a video that went viral on Wednesday, maintained that Fani-Kayode, hitherto an ardent critique of APC, saw the light and approsched him with the request to join the APC. Fani-Kayode had earlier in the week visited Bello and the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, who also serves as the National Chairman of the…

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Panic as 17 Ghana’s lawmakers, 151 staff contract COVID-19

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Ghana’s parliament, wgixh has been shut for three weeks, qould not opened untill March 2, Speaker has announced 17 members of Ghana’s parliament and 151 support staff have been infected with the coronavirus, forcing the country’s parliament to be shutdown. The shutdown, checks by Platforms Africa showed, has lasted for at least three weeks over a surge in coronavirus cases among the lawmakers and staff. The incident had already forced lawmakers to limit their assembly meetings. Speaker of the house, Alban Bagbin, announced on Tuesday that the legislature would…

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How Ex-Super Eagles Yisa Shofoluwe was hospitalised, died + PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Shofoluwe, who suffered brain disease, died at the hospital before help could come from fund raisers   A former Super Eagles defender, Yisa Shofoluwe, is dead. Popularly known as Dean of Defence, Shofoluwe who suffered brain disease, died in the hospital on Tuesday night. His death, a family source said, came as funds were being raised for his treatment. He was said to have died from complications related to the Coronavirus Disease. Shofoluwe held away in the right back position of the Super Eagles between 1983 and 1988, playing…

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BREAKING: Three top politicians die in Nigerian Borno Gov Zulum’s convoy

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Details have emerged on how three politicians who were on the convoy of Babagana Zulum, Governor of Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, died in an auto crash today. The crash occurred on their way back from Mafa, the Borno governor’s hometown. The late politicians, former governor of the state, Senator Kashim Shettima, APC’s caretaker chairman, Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly and other party faithfuls had arrived Mafa in Zulum’s motorcade for revalidation of his party membership in his local ward of Lamisula. Eyewitnesses told Channels Television that the politicians who were driving…

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NNPC deepens $10pb oil production cost’s drive, props up Ministry’s backing

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Nigeria has lunched Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme (NUCOP)   The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday deepened its drive to sink oil production cost in Nigeria to $10 per barrel as it already secured backings from critical stakeholders. Group Managing Director of the corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, who said this, also noted that with the stakeholders support, NNPC is working towards reducing operations cost to achieve the $10 or less per barrel production cost target. A press release by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr.…

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Panic as Ebola resurfaces, kills one in DR Congo

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced a new case of the Ebola virus, months after the outbreak was declared over in the Central African country. This has heightened fresh panic across many African health institutions. The DRC ministry of health announced on Sunday that the patient, who has since died, contracted the virus in Butembo, a city in North Kivu province. Butembo was one of the epicentres of the previous Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC. The World Health Organisation said it is “not unusual for sporadic cases…

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BUA liar, COVID Coalition debunks Billionaire AbdulSamad claims on vaccine

ADEOLA YUSUF

  CACOVID mentions Alhaji Aliko Dangote, CBN governor Emefiele and Herbert Wigwe in a statement it uses to puncture BUA’s claim The Coalition Against COVID-19 said the Chairman of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, lied over his claim that he had concluded arrangements for the purchase of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The BUA Group announced the development in a statement on Monday. It said: “BUA, one of Africa’s largest conglomerates, has paid for one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria through the AFREXIM Vaccine programme in partnership…

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BUA Procures 1m AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Doses For Nigerians

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Foods and infrastructure conglomerates with headquarters in Nigeria, BUA Group, said it has procured one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria. The procurement, the company said in a statement to Platforms Africa, was made through the AFREXIM vaccine programme in partnership with CACOVID. The doses, expected to be delivered by next week. The delivery will be the first in Nigeria since the COVID-19 vaccines became available. The vaccine, BUA said in a statement by O’tega Ogra, Group Head, Corporate Communications, would be distributed free to Nigerians. Speaking…

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