Month: April 2021

Meet Prof Mahfouz Adedimeji, Winner World’s 21st Century top Educator award

ADEOLA YUSUF

  A Nigerian professor and vice chancellor of Ahman Pategi University, Pategi, Kwara State, Mahfouz Adedimeji, has been awarded a global recognition as the ‘most Notable and Top Distinguished Educator of the 21st Century’. The Golden Award was conferred on him by the International Chartered World Learned Society, a United States-based organisation, with offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He has also been conferred with the Life Fellowship of the Society (in the field of English Language), according to a letter addressed to him by Professor S. R. Boselin…

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OML 53: NCDMB partners ANOH Gas for Skill Centre, $10m CDI commitment

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Wednesday flagged off a partnership arrangement with Anoh Gas Processing Company Limited for the completion of the Center for Skills Development and Training (CSDT) located at Greater Port Harcourt Area, Rivers State. The completion of the CSDT was part of the ANOH’s $10 million Capacity Development Initiative commitment and its construction work had been stalled since 2014 due to paucity of funds after it was conceived by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) to train and increase the competence and capabilities of Nigerians to meet the low-to-middle level human…

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Buhari gets Nigeria’s Senate nod for fresh 1.5bn, €995m foreign loans

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Nigeria is still struggling under the weight of increasing public debt stock which stood at N32.22 trillion as of September 30, 2020.   The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has successfully jumped the last hurdle for his government’s plan to borrow fresh $1.5 billion and €995 million. The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved the fresh external loans for the government. The red chamber okayed the foreign loans after considering the report of its committee on local and foreign debts during Wednesday’s plenary session. Clifford Ordia, chairman of the committee, told the…

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How US Jury Found Ex-Officer Chauvin, 45, Guilty Of Floyd Murder

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Jurors were told they could not return home until they had made their decision. Details have emerged on how United State (US) jury found a former police officer, Derek Chauvin, 45, guilty of murder over the death of African-American George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year. The 12-member jury took less than a day to reach their verdict, which followed a highly-charged, three-week trial that left Minneapolis on edge. After both sides presented closing arguments on Monday, the jury was isolated in a hotel with no outside contact…

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Queues: NNPC troubleshoots, surges daily petrol supply to 54.813m litres

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has increased the supply of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) across the country to 54.813 million litres daily. The corporation, Platforms Africa reports, achieved this by increasing load-out from 550 trucks to 1,661 trucks to combat the build up of fuel queues in some parts of the country. With an average capacity of 33,000 litre per truck, the 1661 truck translates to 54.813 million litres, according to sata compiled by Platforms Africa. A statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division,…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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