Day: April 25, 2021

Shell ends $22bn annual loss, makes first profit since COVID-19 outbreak

Efe Wellington

  Oil super major, Royal Dutch Shell, is preparing to mark an end to industry’s darkest year in history with a return to profit. Platforms Africa reports that the oil multinational has told investors that it would announce profit when it reports first-quarter results on 29 th of April, after Covid dealt fossil fuel giants a heavy blow, but demand is lifting revenues again in a last hurrah before decarbonisation. Like Royal Dutch Shell, BP is also among the companies expected to report quarterly profits from producing oil for the…

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How Nigerian Troop hunted down, killed Ikonso, Top IPOB Commander, 6 others

Precious Ibekwe

  In a mini war that ensued, the ‘mastermind’ of attacks on Police Command and the Owerri Correctional Center, Imo, Southeast Nigeria, gunned down four officers before he was neutralised.   Graphical details have emerged on how the Nigerian Troops hunted down and killed Ikonso, top IPOB Commander, and six of his top Commanders. In a mini war that ensued, the mastermind of attacks on Police Command and the Owerri Correctional Center, imo, Southeast Nigeria gunned down four officers before he was neutarlised. Nigerian Army High Command, which revealed this,…

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Breakthrough: Vaccine for Malaria, killer of 400,000 Africans yearly, found

Aoko Benjamin

  Here are real reasons COVID-19 vaccine is found first before Malaria’s + how 5,000 children across four African countries would be used to confirm the findings.   A malaria vaccine has proved to be 77% effective in early trials and could be a major breakthrough against the disease, says the University of Oxford team behind it. Malaria kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. But despite many vaccines being trialled over the years, this is the first to meet the required target. The researchers…

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Why Strike won’t end now: ASUP opens up to Nigerian Poly Students, Parents

Adeola Yusuf

  The striking Polytechnic lecturers in Nigeria have told hundreds of thousands of students and parents affected by the industrial action not to expect them to return to classes until their demands are addressed by the government. Top official of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Yekini Nureni Asafe, who stated this during the Saturday e-Discourse on Platforms Africa forum, an e-Community of intellectuals, policy moulders and opinion leaders in Africa, maintained that the “fight is for the good of the system, the students and parents.” The lecturers’ union,…

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