Month: April 2021

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

“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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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BREAKING: Jose Mourinho fired again + Why Tottenham Sacked the Special One

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Apparently not impressed with the performance of the English Premier League club with the season just few  weeks away to end, José Mourinho has been sacked as manager of Tottenham Hotspur by the Chairman, Daniel Levy. Mourinho’s position has come under increasing scrutiny following a run of form that has seen Spurs win just once in their past six games, a period in which the club were dumped out of the Europa League by Dinamo Zagreb in humiliating fashion, fell behind in the race for Champions League qualification – they currently sit seventh –…

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Meet Aziz Kountche, African man who turned dreams into drones

ADEOLA YUSUF

  From the outside, the house is a typical upmarket residence in Niamey, but inside it looks like no other. Three drones straddle large tables with their albatross wings, amid improvised building materials and tools. Aziz Kountche (pictured), a grandson of Nigerien general and former president Seyni Kountche (1931-87), is an obsessive aeronautical entrepreneur who launched his civilian drone company, Drone Africa Service, in 2016, pledging aircraft that are ‘100 percent Nigerien’. ‘We import products that are not found here such as fibreglass, carbon, but everything else — design, modelling,…

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Oil firms file for bankruptcy as recovery battle turns tough

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Record numbers of oil and gas companies are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to Energy and restructuring law firm Haynes and Boone, bankruptcies by the oil firms, especially the North American oil producers, climbed to the highest first-quarter level since 2016 as energy firms continue to struggle to recover from the carnage of the oil price crash in 2020. Haynes and Boone has reported there were eight bankruptcies by North American oil and gas producers in Q1 2021, the second-highest figure for a first-quarter ever since 17 were…

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Nigeria’s top Pastor, Adeboye, reacts as authority grounds Private Jet

ADEOLA YUSUF

  “…somebody wanted a bribe. And you know if you are expecting a bribe from me, you have to wait forever,” Pastor Adeboye   Popular pastor in Nigeria, the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has reacted as his private jet was prevented from flying. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the private jet, AgustaWestland AW139 with registration number 5N-EAA, over two weeks ago, following the expiration of some of its papers and spare parts. Adeboye who reacted during a special meeting with all ordained…

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BREAKING: Nigeria’s AGF to meet Judiciary Workers 2 weeks after Courts’ shutdown

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Nigeria, Abubakar Malami, will meet with leadership of the striking Judiciary workers on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, day it will be exactly 14 days that Courts in the country, including the Supreme  Court, have been shut down. National Public Relations Officer of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Mrs. Selepreye Koin, who disclosed this at the Platforms Africa e-Discourse on Saturday, Day 11 of the strike, maintained that previous meetings scheduled by the AGF were called off. “Well, the Federal…

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Reasons Nigeria ruled out 100% Local Content attainment for Oil, Gas Sector

ADEOLA YUSUF

  NCDMB is not advocating attainment of 100 percent Nigerian Content in the oil and gas Industry. Here is why according to Wabote   Nigeria, African biggest crude oil exporter, had ruled out advocacy and attainment of 100 percent Local Content for its oil and gas sector. Executive Secretary, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Simbi Wabote, who said this, maintained that his board is even not advocating for 100 percent Nigerian Content in the oil and gas Industry. “If the board wants to implement the Nigerian Content…

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Twitter Office in Ghana not a loss for South Africa, Kenya. Why Nigeria?

ADEOLA YUSUF

      “Was there a competition between Ghana and Nigeria over the location of Twitter’s office? Why is the ‘win’ for Ghana not framed as a loss for South Africa, Kenya or Egypt? Why make it about Nigeria? Simbo Olorunfemi wrote in this opinion article originally titled; “The Dirty Business of Running Nigeria Down.”   Yesterday, my attention was drawn to the report by CNN on location of Twitter Office in Ghana. I would not have bothered to go beyond the headline, seeing that what is actually a next…

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Number of Nigerians vaccinated with AstraZeneca Jabs hits 1 million –NPHCDA

ADEOLA YUSUF

  No death, no blood clot reported; 52 moderate-to-severe cases of adverse events including fever, vomiting, diarrhoea headaches, dizziness and allergic reactions reported; while a total 8,439 mild cases have been reported, with the highest numbers in Kaduna, Cross River, Yobe, Kebbi and Lagos.   National Primary Health Care Development (NPHCD) Agency says 1,071,346 Nigerians have taken their first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. The figure represents 53.2 per cent of people considered eligible for the vaccine, according to reports received from states through the Electronic Management of Immunization…

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