Month: March 2021

Meet Ramata, Professor who backed Student’s Baby in US Varsity’s Classroom

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Here is why her white students who were astonished that the baby slept immediately after it was backed, mistook Ramata‘s act of kindness and warm for African black power   The woman backing the baby is a professor. And she backed the baby while teaching a class of physiology and anatomy. No ,the baby is not hers. And this scene played out for three hours at a University College in Georgia ,United States of America. Ramata Sissoko Cissé, an assistant professor of biology at Georgia Gwinnett College in the…

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Nigerian Media and framing: Wakili a Fulani warlord but Igboho an activist?

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The media possesses near-celestial powers. It calls into existence what must be and what must not be. It can actuate change and mobilise consciences to a cause. It can destroy, it can build; it can hurt and it can heal. Yes, it can call into existence ‘’the things that do not exist’’, – the power of god. I must say, the power of the media is also its burden. The ‘’omnipotence’’ of this public institution straps on it great responsibility. After all, ‘’with great power comes great responsibility’’. The…

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How Ghana power system collapsed, plunged country into total blackout 

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Here is a report on power crisis including a two-year-long crippling power outages between 2013 and 2015 in the West Africa country.     Ghana suffered a nationwide power outage late Sunday afternoon after the shutdown of the power system, officials confirmed in a statement. The state-owned power distributor, Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), said ‘a challenge to the power system led to a total system shutdown around 2:10 p.m. local time.’ It said the technical team was still working to restore power supply to all bulk supply points…

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Crowdyvest exits EMFATO Holdings, leaves crowdfunding space

ADEOLA YUSUF

  EMFATO Holdings (owners of Farmcrowdy and investors in Plentywaka) has announced the exit of one of its portfolio companies – Crowdyvest, following up on new investments into the startup to grow as a digital savings company in Nigeria Launched just over a year ago, Crowdyvest, a statement sent to Platforms Africa read, has over 10,000 members who have used opportunities on it’s platform to sponsor projects in Agriculture, Real Estate, Transportation, Health and Education sectors. The company was previously led by its Co-founder & CEO, Onyeka Akumah now has…

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Confusion in EFCC as Bola Tinubu assets’ file disappears from CCB vault

ADEOLA YUSUF

The case file of top Nigerian politician and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju  Bola Tinubu, has reportedly disappeared from the storage facility of  the Code of Conduct Bureau that has held it for years. This has simultaneously caused confusion at the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which had begun a fresh probe into the allegation of graft against Tinubu. Three officials familiar with the matter said that the bureau started looking for Tinubu’s asset filings after the EFCC requested copies as part of an ongoing investigation into…

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How Oil Skyrocketed To $71 Per Barrel, Highest In 14 Months

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Here are details of what Nigerians stand to lose despite the oil price that pushed their country’s Excess crude earnings to $43.2m in 24 hours Crude oil, Nigeria’s biggest revenue earner, hit $71.38 per barrel on Monday, being the highest point in 14 months. This new price, which  pushed Nigeria’s excess crude earnings on 1.8 million barrels output to OPEC market to $43.2 million in  one day, worsened the forecast for high price of refined petroleum product for the country, which depends largely on import to service its local…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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