Month: March 2021

Fani-Kayode, Politician who called COVID-19 vaccine ‘evil,’ vaccinated

Precious Ibekwe

  Remember him? Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a popular and controversial politician in Nigeria, who once reportedly called COVID-19 vaccine ‘evil’, has received the same vaccine. The former minister of aviation in the Africa’s most populous nation, announced on his verified Twitter handle, @realFFK, that he received the vaccine. It was not clear whether all of those who supported his initial argument about the vaccine will have the chance to be vaccinated like him. Describing his newly found belief in COVID-19 vaccination as bowing to superior reasoning and sound logic, the…

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DPR confirms Platforms Africa Exclusive Story on Shakeup, Deputy Directors

Damilola Olonade

  Six new deputy directors promoted to fill vacant positions, DPR spokesman says     The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Tuesday confirmed the World-Class exclusive investigative story published by Platforms  Africa on the shake up; removal and replacement of six deputy directors, at the agency. The Oil sector regulator, which confirmed the news over 24 hours after it was broken by Platforms Africa, maintained that it had promoted “six deputy directors to fill vacant positions” created by the shakeup “in the regulatory agency.” Head, Corporate Affairs, DPR, Mr…

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Nigerian government declares Friday, Monday Public Holidays for Easter

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Nigerian Government has declared Friday 2nd and Monday 5th of April 2021 Public Holidays to mark this year’s Easter Celebration. This was contained in a Statement released by Mr. Mohammed Manga Director, Press & Public Relations, Ministry of Interior for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, urged Christians to emulate the attributes of forbearance, forgiveness, kindness, humility, love, peace and patience, which were demonstrated by Jesus Christ. He called on them to use the occasion of this year’s…

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555-million-year-old headless Creatures with Human genes discovered

Damilola Olonade

  Scientists at the University of California – Riverside, say discovered ancient creatures are Earth’s first Animal, surprisingly similar to humans   The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows. According to a study by University of California – Riverside published in the SciTech Daily, 555-million-year-old oceanic creatures from the Ediacaran period share genes with today’s animals, including humans. “None of them had heads or skeletons. Many of them probably looked like three-dimensional bathmats on…

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NNPC ups gas investment, declares fuel transition “unavoidable”

Aliyu Aliyu

. We are sets for Strategic Role in New World Energy Order – Kyari Nigeria has revealed its plot to crash petrol consumption volume in tune with global fuel transition it described as unavoidable. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, who made this submission at the Decade of Gas Pre-summit Conference which held Monday in Abuja, with the theme: Towards Gas-Powered Economy by 2030, maintained that under the circumstances, natural gas, and by extension blue hydrogen, would be heavily depended upon as transition fuels to play a…

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Obama family rules out COVID-19 as US ex-President’s ‘Granny’ dies in Kenya

Aoko Benjamin

  Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, declaring that she did not die of COVID-19. She was at least 99 years old. Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the former US president was fondly called, promoted education for girls and orphans in her rural Kogelo village. She passed away around 4 a.m. local time while being treated at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral hospital in Kisumu, Kenya’s third-largest city in the country’s west, according to…

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Nigeria’s 200 tcf gas reserves amount to nothing if not utilized – Attah

Efe Wellington

  The Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), Engr. Tony Attah, has said that the large deposit of gas resources in Nigeria would amount to nothing if the gas is not developed and utilised urgently to meet the nation’s energy needs. Engr. Attah said this at the pre-summit conference of the 2021 Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (NIPS) organised by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and sponsored by NLNG. The country, according to the NLNHLG boss has 200TCF of proved reserve and an additional 600TCF scope to be proven…

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EXCLUSIVE: Major Shake up rocks DPR, 6 Deputy Directors Removed + FULL LIST

Damilola Olonade

  A major shake up has rocked Nigeria’s oil industry regulator, the Department of Petroleum (DPR), affecting all deputy directors of the agency, Platforms Africa, gathered exclusively. Described by some staff of the agency, which has newly moved its headquarters to Abija, as a “compulsory but massive retirement of deputy directors,” the gale blew away six of the seven deputy directors. The deputy directors are Head, Corporate Services, Mr. Isah Tafidah; Head, Engineering and Standard, Engineer Akann Musa; Head, Downstream Monitoring and Regulation, Mr.Mohammed Alaku; and Head, Upstream Monitoring and…

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Lies People Aged 40 and Above Believe about Their Health + Risk, Danger

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Health conditions you may contend with and medical advice on how to stop them from causing casualty, fatality are laid to bare here by a senior Medical Doctor and Chief Executive Officer, Solomon Jayden Medical Centre, Iju, Nigeria, Doctor Akin Oyejoko, at the Platforms Africa e-Discourse. Excerpts;   How true is it medically that life begins at 40? Well, I would rather say that care begins at 40. Once you are 40, you have to be more mindful of your health, what you eat, how you spend your time,…

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How Popular Nigerian football Coach, Kashimawo Laloko, Died + PHOTOS

Lukman Olasunkanmi

  More details have emerged on how Nigerian Football talent hunter and former Technical Director in the then Nigeria Football Association, Chief Kashimawo Laloko, wsdied. Laloko, who doubled as a former National Coach of The Gambia, died Sunday morning (March 28) after being hospitalised at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria, Platforms Africa has gathered. “Baba is aged 76 and all I can say is that he has a health condition associated with old age which he has been managing over the years and when thing began to…

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