Month: April 2021

Total evacuates Staff, halts $20bn Mozambique gas project after attacks

Aoko Benjamin

  French energy giant Total on Monday confirmed it is suspending work on a massive $20bn gas project in northern Mozambique following the latest jihadist assault on a nearby town last month. Total removed its remaining staff from the Afungi peninsula natural gas site after a jihadist raid in the nearby town of Palma on March 24 left dozens of people dead. It had already evacuated some workers and suspended construction in January following a series of jihadist attacks nearby. ‘In the current environment, Total can no longer operate in…

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Crypto Exchange Founder Disappears with $2bn, Lands 300,000 Users in Soup

Wonuola Olujobi

  The founder of a popular crypto exchange in Turkey has disappeared, with media reports indicating that he has fled the country with $2 billion as roughly 300,000 frustrated users have suddenly lost access to their accounts. In Turkey, the national currency lira has been in a secular decline for nine consecutive years, urging people to take some risks in a bid to protect their savings and maybe even earn something. As a result, the recent rise of cryptocurrencies predictably attracted many investors who hoped to protect their money and…

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Bandits murder two more Nigeria’s Kaduna Private Varsity Students

Aliyu Aliyu

Bandits murder two more Nigeria’s Private Varsity Student Two more students of Greenfield University, Kaduna have been killed by bandits, an official said in a statement Monday. Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, Samuel Aruwan who disclosed this development in a statement the corpses have been retrieved and evacuated to a mortuary. Aruwan said, “On a sad note, security agencies have just reported to the Kaduna State Government the recovery of two more dead bodies of Greenfield University students, killed by armed bandits today, Monday 26th April 2021. “The retrieved corpses have been evacuated to a mortuary, and the university has been notified of the development.” He added that…

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How Bandits Stormed Kaduna Church, Killed Medical Doctor, 8year-old, Others

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Graphical details have emerged on how blood thirsty bandits attacked a church during a Sunday service in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, killing a medical doctor and abducting many others. Another attack, which was carried out by the daredevil banditdls almost the same time in the state, claimed the life of an 8-year old and that of seven others. The fresh attacks came barely two days after the killing of three students of Greenfield University along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. About twenty of the students are still in captivity while negotiations are…

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Nigeria, World Bank bicker on Country’s Electricity Supply Hour, Others

Tade Salako

The Nigerian Government has rejected a survey conducted by the World Bank, questioning claims in the survey that 78% of power consumers in Nigeria get less than 12 hours of daily supply of electricity. The government’ which said this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa issued in Abuja on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure, Mr. Ahmad Rufai Zakari, argued that it was unclear what empirical evidence the World Bank used to arrive at the figures, insisting that power distribution to consumers is steadily improving.…

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BREAKING: Family of 10 Abducted in Nigeria’s Oyo State + Names

Gbenga Adeoti

  A family of 10 has been kidnapped at Agbo Hotel in Ajaawa community, Ogo Oluwa Local Government Area of Oyo State’ Southwest Nigeria. Radio Nigeria gathered that the victims included the owner of the hotel, Hon. Olukunle Oyedokun, his younger wife, his baby, two daughters, granddaughter, sister-in-law with her son and a guest at the hotel The abductors were said to have invaded the hotel behind CAC Primary School, Lagbedu Road at about 10pm on Saturday. The perpetrators reportedly fired shots into the air sporadically, after which they seized…

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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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