Month: April 2021

Why we approached NCDMB for Collaboration – Nigerian Amnesty Boss

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has declared that it decided to approach the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) based on the board’s industry role, which will be of immense benefit to get the ex-agitators to become entrepreneurs and employers of labour. PAP and the NCDMB, Platforms Africa reports, agreed to work together to build the capacity of beneficiaries of the amnesty programme. Interim Administrator of the PAP,  Milland Dixon Dikio while enumerating the vision and strategic plan of the PAP under him, said everything is being done…

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Maradona’s Daughters, Lawyer fight dirty over football Legend’s £60m Estate

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Lawyer accuses Maradona’s daughters of stealing, abandonment A former lawyer to the late Argentine football , Martias Morla, has accused two daughters of Diego Maradona of abandoning the legend. Dalma and Gianinna Maradona have been involved in a bitter inheritance dispute with Morla over Maradona’s image rights and estate amounting to £ 60million. The Argentine lawyer speaking in an interview with America TV during the week hit back at the heiresses insisting they profited from the star’s demise. “He was fighting to the death with Dalma and Gianinna —…

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Ramadan: Sultan Orders Nigerian Muslims’ Search for new Moon on Monday

ADEOLA YUSUF

  I’tikaf should still be put on hold while strict observance of all COVID-19 protocols including avoiding lengthy or crowded sessions should be observed, Sultan says in a statement   The President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), and Sultan of Sokoto, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has enjoined Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Ramadan 1442 AH immediately after sunset on Monday, April 12, 2021. Sultan, in a statement signed by the Director of Administration, NSCIA, Arc. Zubairu Haruna Usman-Ugwu, sent to Platforms Africa, felicitated with the…

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How flavoured drinks killed 3 in Nigeria’s Kano – NAFDAC

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Nigeria’s food administration agency declares additives or chemicals used to enhance the taste of foods and drinks could lead to preventable illnesses or death The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned Nigerians to desist from adding additives or chemicals to enhance the taste of foods and drinks, as they could lead to preventable illnesses or death. Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning on Sunday in Abuja, while confirming the three deaths recorded in Kano State in March was due to…

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Nigeria prints N60bn notes, ups debts to N16trn as financial crisis worsens

ADEOLA YUSUF

  “In another year or so, where will we find this money that we go to Abuja to share every month?” Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, laments as financial crunch takes toll on states   The Nigerian Government has printed about N60 billion notes to augment allocation shared to states in March by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee. The Governor of Edo State, Southsouth part of the country, Godwin Obaseki, who raised the alarm over Nigeria’s financial trouble, particularly gave the continued shrinking oil revenue as the reason. Besides,…

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How COVID-19 altered Royal Funeral for Queen Elizabeth’s hubby, Prince Philip

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The plans for royal funerals for the Duke of Edinburgh, also known as Prince Philip, have been in place for many years, but ceremonial elements have had to be altered due to the pandemic. Current Covid rules limit the number of people who can attend funerals to 30, and original plans for public processions for the duke may not go ahead, a report by CNN read. The duke had recently spent a month in two London hospitals, undergoing heart surgery and treatment for an infection, before returning in mid-March to…

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Outcry as Nigeria’s Ekitii Popular Monarch is shot, hospitalised

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Details have emerged on how suspected gunmen shot a popular traditional ruler in Ekiti, Southwest Nigeria, the Elewu of Ewu Ekiti in Ilejemeje Local Government, Oba Adetutu Ajayi, while he was being driven in his car. The monarch was said to have sustained gunshot injuries and is now hospitalised in one of the medical facilities in the state. A source told journalists in Ado Ekiti on Saturday morning, that the monarch was traveling in his official car to neighbouring Ayetoro Ekiti, in Ido/Osi Local Government when the gunmen struck. “The monarch was…

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How Nigerian naval officer killed his abductors, regained freedom

ADEOLA YUSUF

    A Nigerian naval officer, AK Bala, has regained freedom after killing kidnappers who abducted him over two weeks ago. According to a story shared online, former Army spokesman, SK Usman, who reportedly confirmed this, added that the abducted officer was able to overpower one of the kidnappers, disarmed him and used the rifle to kill all them before running away from the bush to safety. He did not give further details of where the abduction took place while there is yet an official statement from the Nigerian Navy…

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COVID-19: Lagos Expands Gathering Limit To 500, Eases Restrictions on Event

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The government of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, has finally eased restrictions on social/event centres across the state, about one year after it locked down the state due to COVID-19. Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-olu, who declared this, however, called on owners of event centres to obtain a valid license of the state Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture before commencing operation. The decision was taken after due consultations and deliberations with relevant stakeholders and MDA’s including the Lagos State Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and Lagos State…

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Africa gets single trade Currency Soon +All you should know in 9 paragraphs

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA’s) announced that the continent will soon have its own uniform payments and settlement platform to ease the burden of doing business in 42 currencies. Wamkele Mene revealed the plans at a webinar organised by the ruling South African ANC’s Progressive Business Forum on the AfCFTA on Friday. ‘Working with the Afreximbank [the African Export–Import Bank established to finance, promote and expand intra-African and extra-African trade] we are developing a pan-African payments and settlement platform to overcome this challenge of…

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