Day: March 8, 2021

OML 110: Controversy greets revoked oil block, puts Mai Deribe on the spot

Dawood Rabiu

  Nigerian oil mogul, Mai Deribe, disowns statement purportedly issued by Cavendish Petroleum Limited Controversy, which greeted the revoked Oil Mining Lease (OML) 110 worsened at the weekend with oil mogul, Alhaji Ibrahim Mai Deribe, disowning a statement purportedly issued by Cavendish Petroleum Limited, the company he formerly headed. In a Public Disclaimer statement he peronally issues sighted by Platforms Africa, the oil mogul described the statement published in some online media as “false, misleading and malicious.” He said; “My attention has been drawn to a statement with respect to…

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NCDMB mulls N20m investments for Nigerian varsity

Efe Wellington

  15 teams emerge regional semi-finalists in Nigerian Content Science, Technology Challenge The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) declared at the weekend that it would award N20million investment towards the development of a research and development centre in the institution that the winning undergraduates in its Science andTechnology Challenge, represent. This came as fifteen teams have emerged as regional semi-finalists in the first Nigerian Content Science and Technology Innovation Challenge (STIC) which was opened to all higher institutions in Nigeria in November 2020. The competition is sponsored by…

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How Nigeria’s gas investments can benefit West Africa – Shell

Efe Wellington

  Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Gas Limited, Ed Ubong, has advocated an improved investment climate for the gas sector to further develop infrastructure along the gas value chain and enable the expansion of the gas networks to cover the West Africa countries. Ubong who is the newly inaugurated President of the Nigeria Gas Association (NGA), also said that there is abundant gas resources in Nigeria to meet the energy demand of over 350 million people and the industrial needs in the West African sub-region “Nigeria, which ranks as the 9th largest…

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Meet Kola Adepoju, FUNAAB’s new Director of Public Relations + PHOTOS

Tade Salako

  An accomplished Journalist and seasoned Public Relations Executive, Mr.Kola Adepoju, has been appointed the Acting Head of Directorate of Public Relations, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB). His appointment was contained in a letter signed by the University Registrar, Dr. Bola Adekola. Until his appointment, Adepoju an Assistant Director of Public Relations, Media and External Relations was the Coordinator of FUNAAB Radio 89.5 FM and a Co-host of the popular interactive live programme of the Station, ‘Boiling Point’. Checks revealed that this is not his first stint as Head…

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BREAKING: 10 Kwara schools to remain shut for safety reasons

Aliyu Aliyu

    The government of Kwara state, Northcentral Nigeria, has declared that 10 schools shut over Hijaab controversy will not resume as earlier scheduled. The schools are due for resumption on Monday, March 8 after an earlier shitdown. The Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, whoch announced this in a statement to Platforms Africa, “wishes to inform members of the public that the 10 government schools where the use of hijaab is disputed will remain shut until a later date.” This decision, the statement added, “has been taken for…

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