Day: May 18, 2021

How Ogun ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel’s Hotel explosion killed 2, injured 3

Gbenga Adeoti

  A technician and another person have been killed in a gas explosion that rocked Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The hotel, located at Okemosan, is owned by a former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel.   READ ALSO: How Ogun Gov’s Aide, Abidemi Rufai, defrauded Americans of $350,000 – FBI BREAKING: We need N2.3 trillion fresh external loan, Buhari writes Senate JUST IN: Nigeria’s oil workers on red alert, threaten nationwide strike    According to Daily Post, three others were said to have sustained injuries in the…

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BREAKING: Bandits kidnap Nigerian Judge Inside Court

Dawood Rabiu

  The attackers broke into the court around 3pm on Tuesday and abducted the judge   Gunmen have abducted a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila at a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. It was gathered that the attackers broke into the court around 3pm on Tuesday and abducted the judge. READ ALSO: Why CBN should pay N100m Greenfield Students’ Ransom to Bandits – Gumi Bandits murder two more Nigeria’s Kaduna Private Varsity Students BREAKING: We need N2.3 trillion fresh external…

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Shell Places all Onshore Oil blocks’ Stakes in Nigeria Up for Sale

Efe Wellington

  “This is an exposure that doesn’t fit with our risk appetite anymore,” van Beurden, Anglo Dutch oil giant confirmed to have opened talks with Nigeria on stake’s divestment   Royal Dutch Shell is in talks with the Nigerian government to sell the Anglo-Dutch company’s stake in onshore oilfields, CEO Ben van Beurden said on Tuesday, according to a report by Reuters. Shell, the operator of the West African country’s onshore oil and gas joint venture SPDC, has struggled for years with spills in the Niger Delta as a result…

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How Ogun Gov’s Aide, Abidemi Rufai, defrauded Americans of $350,000 – FBI

Wonuola Olujobi

    Details of how Abidemi Rufai walked into the FBI’s trap, got arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport New York   READ ALSO:11 Banks in trouble as EFCC probes link with Dubai-bound Nigerian caught with 2,886 ATM cards ABOVE 45: Working 8 hours per day can cause Stroke, Heart disease – WHO JUST IN: EFCC Takes Over Nestoil Chairman, Ernest Azudialu’s Ikoyi Mansion   The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has given details of how a Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, Abidemi Rifai, defrauded…

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JUST IN: Nigeria’s oil workers on red alert, threaten nationwide strike

Efe Wellington

NUPENG demand the Nigerian government to call Kaduna State governor to order over threat on labour leaders or all Nigetians will pay dearly for his action Oil workers in Nigeria on Tuesday threatened the total disruption of the entire oil and gas value chain nationwide over the alleged threat on the lives of the Labour leaders including President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba l, by the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai. El-Rufai whose state is under industrial action by the labour unions, has earlier declared Mr. Wabba…

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BREAKING: We need N2.3 trillion fresh external loan, Buhari writes Senate

Aliyu Aliyu

  Here is the reason the President gave for all Nigerians to support and approve the $6.18 billion fresh external loan through their representatives at the Upper legislative chamber. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the approval to go for $6,18 billion fresh external loan. The request by President Buhari is contained in a letter read on Tuesday at plenary by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. According to Buhari, the proposed loan which is equivalent of N2.3trn is to finance the 2021 budget deficit…

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How Marginal field Operators will grow Nigeria’s Oil, By Markson Ibibo

Markson Ibibo

Oil and gas policy analyst, Markson Ibibo, in this revealing article painted vivid picture of how Marginal field operators will grow Nigeria’s oil if we all support them   The Nigerian government introduced the marginal field development programme in 1996 to help grow the country’s oil and gas production by divesting the majors of dormant discoveries and making same available to indigenous operators who are nimble enough to venture into neglected terrains. The programme has seen Shell, Total, Agip, Chevron and others surrender fields which are then allocated to marginal…

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‘Let him come and arrest me’, ‘wanted’ NLC President dares Gov. El-Rufai

Dawood Rabiu

  Ayuba Wabba, the Nigeria Labour Congress’s National President, has challenged Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai to arrest him over the state’s ongoing workers’ strike. Following the strike, El Rufai declared Wabba and other labor leaders sought for economic sabotage. READ ALSO: WAR: El-Rufai Declares NLC President, Wabba Wanted as Strike grounds State JUST IN: EFCC Takes Over Nestoil Chairman, Ernest Azudialu’s Ikoyi Mansion ABOVE 45: Working 8 hours per day can cause Stroke, Heart disease – WHO The state’s NLC has gone on strike to protest mass worker disengagement…

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WAR: El-Rufai Declares NLC President, Wabba Wanted as Strike grounds State

Aliyu Aliyu

  Kaduna governor places ‘Handsome’ Reward on labour leader’s head for whoever brings information on his whereabouts, says Wabba will be prosecuted for economic sabotage   The Kaduna State government, led by Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, has declared Comrade Ayuba Wabba, the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), wanted in connection with a five-day strike in the state. The NLC has previously stated that the strike would continue unless the state government addressed the workers’ concerns. The recent sacking of 7,000 local government employees, as well as the state…

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Nigeria’s sachet water, food prices skyrocket 100% as citizens fortunes dip

Damilola Olonade

  Here, in this Platforms Africa Special report, is state-by-state food inflation rate in Nigeria + how inflation in  Africa’s biggest economy reached 18.12 per cent in April   The prices of food and water, including the sachet water, are going far beyond the reach of the poor, indicating the dwindling inflation state of the Africa’s biggest economy. Data compiled by Platforms Africa showed that the prices of bottled water and sachet water popularly called pure water by Nigerians have skyrocketed by 100 per cent. While the bottled water, which…

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