Month: March 2021

Total deepens fuel trucks’ safety, conducts 4,889 audits in 3 years

ADEOLA YUSUF

Total Nigeria PLC (TNPLC) has highlighted how its Truck Drivers’ Initiative is improving road safety in Nigeria with continuous training and a total of 4,889 truck audits in three years. At a parley held online with the media on Thursday,18th March 2021, the company showed that it had conducted 2,181 Truck driver trainings, 2,740 truck audits at its training facility in Ibadan, Oyo State between 2017 and 2020. It also helped other players to conduct 2,149 truck audits between 2018 and 2020. The company noted that the effort had resulted…

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Aiteo alleges Sponsored Media Attacks as $2.7bn Oil row with Shell worsens

ADEOLA YUSUF

The dispute over $2.7 billion worth of missing crude oil between AITEO Eastern E&P Company Limited and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) degenerated on Thursday with the former alleging a sponsored media attack against it and its Executive Vice Chairman, Benedict Peters. Group Head, Media Operations, Aiteo Group, Ndiana Matthew, who made the allegation in a statement sent to Platforms Africa, maintained that “Shell has committed substantial resources towards impugning Aiteo’s corporate integrity, presumably to exert penalty and punishment on Aiteo for mustering the temerity to demand and insist on…

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NLNG begins 2021 Literature Prize cycle, names Adimora-Ezigbo as Board chair

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has announced the appointment of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, emeritus professor of English at the University of Lagos, as the chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature to flag off the 2021 cycle of the competition. The new Board assumed duties on Wednesday as two hundred and two (202) entries in Prose Fiction carried over from 2020 into the 2021 cycle after the prize’s postponement due to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) were handed over to a panel of judges to mark the start of…

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Customer stabs Ikeja Electric Staff on duty, faces prosecution

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Popoola Olakunle, a staff of Ikeja Electric was stabbed on his head, in the course of duty, at Oladeroun area, New Oko-Oba in Fagba area, Lagos, The culprit, Saheed Olanrewaju aka Usama, a resident of 12, Abiodun Street, Iju-Ishaga in Fagba was subsequently apprehended on Tuesday, 16th March, 2021, with the assistance of the Traditional Ruler’s team and handed over to the Oko-Oko police station for immediate prosecution. So far, plans have been concluded by the Police to arraign the suspect before Ogba Magistrate Court tomorrow Friday, 19th March,…

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IBEDC ups service delivery, pacifies Customers against Exit threats

ADEOLA YUSUF

  . Firm Introduces Bill on demand for customers   Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has deployed all strategies, including meeting with Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and other stakeholders on improved service delivery to customers. The company said this in a reaction to threats by customers at MFM/Magboro area of Ofun stateover load shedding and low supply, maintaining that it is putting available resources to the fore to get them better services. Stating that IBEDC receives 13 Mega watt (MW) supply from TCN for the whole axis, Regional Communication…

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Hajj 2021: Lagos promises stress free COVID-19 vaccination for Pilgrims

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The Government of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has given assurances that COVID-19 vaccine would be administered to every Intending Pilgrim from the State before embarking on the 2021 Hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia. Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Anofiu Olanrewaju Elegushi, who said this while delivering his opening remark at a training programme organised by the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board for its Schedule Officers, Ulamah and Hajj Guides, at the Shamsi Adisa Thomas (SAT) Mosque Hall, GRA, Ikeja. The Hon. Commissioner emphasized that the administration of Governor…

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COVID-19: Nationwide Fear grips Tanzania as President Magufuli dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How Magufuli, a non-believer in the existence and threats of COVID-19, was hospitalised, died in Dar es Salaam hospital  – Vice President      Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is dead. The President who died on Wednesday evening was a non-believer in the existence and threats of COVID-19 and his death has spontaneously thrown the East African nation into a state of apprehension and mourning. Annoucing the sad event on state television on Wednesday night, the Vice-President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, said Magufuli died of heart failure at 6 pm local…

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‘Why Italian Court acquitted Shell, Eni in Nigeria’s $1.3bn oil Scam Case’

ADEOLA YUSUF

    All you need to know about the 3-year legal fireworks, the Nigerian Government’s next move on the $1.3bn biggest oil scandal in Nigeria’s history   An Italian court has provided detailed reason for its judgement with which it acquitted two oil majors; Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, on Wednesday in the Malabu Oil massive corruption case. The case involving $1.3 billion oil block sale was the biggest corruption scandal to hit the industry. Judge Marco Tremolada of the Italian Court read out the sentence in the Milan court…

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How Covenant Varsity lecturer Lured, Raped student Inside office – Police

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  The Nigerian Police Force has given graphical details of how a randy lecturer at the Department of Business Management in the Covenant University Ota, Dr. Stephen Ukenna, lured and raped a 17 year old female student inside his office. Dr. Ukenna is now in the net of the Ogun State Command of the Force after he was arrested on the 11th of March 2021. Spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, while giving detals of Police preliminary investigation in the matter, explained that the 41yrs old lecturer…

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COVID-19: Tanzania sinks into confusion as President missing for 3 weeks

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Where is Tanzania’s President John Magufuli? Tuesday marks 17 days since the 61-year-old has been seen in public, and despite a clamour of rumours of ill-health, the Tanzanian authorities have yet to provide clear answers as to his whereabouts. The mere question is now leading to arrests, as the government seeks to contain the rumours. And analysts say the silence is telling. ‘I think whatever happens … it is clearly true the regime is trying to buy time,’ said Nic Cheeseman, professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham.…

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