Day: March 29, 2021

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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Caleb Varsity gets NUC’s Approval for four Part-Time Courses + LIST

Deborah Apase

  The National Universities Commission (NUC), the agency supervising university education in the country, has approved four part-time courses for Caleb University, Imota, Lagos. The four academic programmes to be offered at the undergraduate level effective from the 2020/2021 academic session were B.Sc. Economics; B.Sc. Political Science; B.Sc. International Relations and B.Sc. Criminology and Security Studies. The university said the approval of the courses were contained in a circular from the National Universities Commission dated March 22, signed by the Director; Academic Planning of NUC, Dr. N. B. Saliu, and…

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Nigerian Doctors set to begin indefinite Strike over unpaid Salary, Others

Precious Ibekwe

  Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) are set to begin an indefinite strike from April 1. The industrial action is sequel to expiration of the 60-day ultimatum to Nigerian Government to pay the salary arrears of house officers across the country and review hazard allowance, among other demands. While decrying the paltry N5, 000 hazard allowance paid to its members, the association also noted since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, it has lost 17 doctors, whose families and loved ones were yet…

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Nigerian Businessman, Charles Ihenetu, Jailed over N16m Oil Scam + PHOTOS

Gbenga Adeoti

  A Special Offences Court sitting at the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Charles Ihenetu, to 15 years imprisonment. This follows the arraignment of Ihenetu before Justice Mojisola Dada by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The convict was arraigned on May 16, 2018, along with his company, V-Choice International Company Nigeria Limited, on three amended charges bordering on conspiracy to obtain by false pretence and obtaining money by false pretence. According to the anti-graft agency, the offences are contrary to…

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Boko Haram bombs Powerline towers, plunges Maiduguri into fresh darkness

Aliyu Aliyu

  Details have emerged on how Boko Haram, again, plunged the hitherto commercial capital of Northeast Nigeria, Maiduguri and environs into fresh darkness barely four days after electricity supply was restored to the region. The Transmission Company of Nigeria, which gave the details in a statement to Platforms Africa, said that the insurgents have again vandalised two towers on the Damaturu-Maidugiri 330kiloVolt Transmission Line. The procurement and installation of the transmission line have earlier gulped several millions of Naira. TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, said this in the…

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