Day: April 20, 2021

BREAKING: Fire guts Nigeria’s Election Agency, INEC’s Major Data Office

Aliyu Aliyu

  A major Data Processing center office belonging to the Nigeria’s election umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), has been gutted by Fire. The fire outbreak, which started around midday on Monday, Platforms Africa gathered, destroyed laptops, desktops, computers hardwares and critical softwares as well as the entire building. The Kano fire fighters have already stormed the incident scene and were able to control the outbreak, this online newspaper can report authoritatively. One of the staff in the commission disclosed that the fire incident started following a power surge, which abruptly…

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Meet Mahamat, Chadian President Deby’s 37 year-old son named Head of State

Dawood Rabiu

  Here is Platforms Africa close up on Idriss Deby’s son and successor, the new leader who should be 37 year-old before the end of this year.   The son of Chad’s President Idriss Deby who on Tuesday died of injuries suffered on the frontline while fighting rebels in the north of the Sahel country, General Mahamat Kaka Deby, has been named interim head of the state, the army spokesman said. Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield” over the weekend, army spokesman,…

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BREAKING: Chadian President Idriss Déby dies 24 hrs after Winning 6th Term

Aliyu Aliyu

  Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died of injuries suffered on the frontline where he had gone to visit soldiers battling rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday. The news came a day after Deby won a sixth term, as per provisional election results released on Monday. The 68-year-old Deby, who came to power in a rebellion in 1990, took 79.3 percent of the vote in the April 11 presidential election, the results showed. More soon.

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Nigerian jailbreakers arrive in Ghana, Police arrest 9 + Names – Report

Aoko Benjamin

Nigerian jailbreakers arrive in Ghana via river Volta, Police arrest 9 – Repor Nine (9) persons suspected to be inmates of a Nigerian prison who broke jail recently have been arrested in Ghana at Ada Foah. Ghanaweb, which reported this quoted the Ada District Police Command to have confirmed the arrested. “They (Police officers) received information that some Nigerians believed to be fugitive jailbreakers were ferried across River Volta into Ada Foah and were preparing to go to Accra,” the report read. Police proceeded to town and at Clinic Junction…

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NNPC embargoes Petrol Ex-Depot Price Hike for May, fourth time in 2021

Efe Wellington

  Kyari flaunts 20bn litres petrol reserves, says Nigerians should go about their normal businesses without panic buying   The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will not increase the ex- depot price of Premium Motor spirit also known as petrol in May. This will be the fourth consecutive month that the corporation has suspended increase in price of the product. Ex-depot price is the price marketers buy products from depot owners; it determines the pump price at filling stations across the country. Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari,…

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I am not ready to die yet, 84 year-old Obasanjo declares

Gbenga Adeoti

“Although I am old, I am not ready for departure. They have bought me my ticket but I haven’t taken my boarding pass yet,” Obasanjo    Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he was not ready to die yet. Using his words, Obasanjo who recently celebrated 84th birthday (born on March 5, 1937) said “though his ticket to return to his Maker has been bought,” he was “not set to board the aircraft yet.” He said this during an interview with an “International Institute” as revealed by a…

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Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Trainers lose $2bn in One Year

Efe Wellington

  Why OGTAN planned to honour Oil Minister, DPR Director at Lecture Series/AGM – Afe   The training stratum of Nigeria’s oil and gas sector lost about à$2 billion in the last one year. Trainers under the auspices of the Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN), who declared this on Monday, maintained that the loss was suffered between March 2020 and March 2021 due to COVID-19. Fielding questions from newsmen at a press conference to herald the Lecture Series and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the group, President…

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