Month: June 2021

Nigeria’s Water Ministry, NDPHC Strike Multi-million Dollars Power Deals

Aliyu Aliyu

Here is the NDPHC boss’ account on how poor transmission, distribution impede IPP’s’ 4,099 MW   The Nigeria’s Ministry of Water Resources and the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Limited have declared collaboration for multi-million dollars hydro power project. Platforms Africa reports that the Managing Director/CEO of NDPHC Mr. Chiedu Ugbo, who declared this when he led the Management Team on courtesy visit to the Minister of Water Resources in Abuja, said that the main focus of the visit was to seek the Ministry’s support in the company’s effort…

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JUST IN: Plane Crashes After Takeoff, Kills 3 in Eastern DR Congo

Aoko Benjamin

The plane, which was leaving the Kavumu airport for Shabunda, crashed after takeoff   Three people were killed in a plane crash Wednesday at Kavumu airport in South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to Radio Okapi, a United Nations-run radio station.   READ ALSO: JUST IN: How 5 NAF officers, 2 crew died in Abuja plane crash + NAMES 7 toddlers, 55 others on board “disappeared” Boeing 737 Plane – Official REVEALED: Three Times Kaduna Plane crashes Killed Top Army Chiefs, Governor   The three killed in the plane crash were two crew members and one passenger said Radio Okapi in a tweet. According to Radio Okapi, the…

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Oil price hits $74.44 per barrel, highest since 2018

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

  Prices of crude oil, biggest revenue earner for Nigeria, on Wednesday, hit $74.44 per barrel, the highest level since 2018. Platforms Africa reports that this came after a report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday showed a substantial draw in US crude oil inventories of 8.537-million barrels for the week ending June 11.   READ ALSO: Nigeria Pays Oil Marketers, Others N940.2bn Subsidy, Debt Stock Hits N33trn African Oil Producers Mull Breakaway From Foreign Lenders’ Funding Yoke Nigeria hands over Marginal Oil blocks’ licenses to Winners +…

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West Africa’s Biggest Power Plant, Egbin, Mulls Fresh 1,900MW Expansion

'Kanyinsolami Yusuf

  Egbin Power oils partnership with NNPC to boost Gas-To-Power, Energy Transition   Biggest thermal power generation company in West Africa, Egbin Power Plc, has declared expansion investment plan for its Phase 2 project. The project will add 1,900 MW to the power generation pool in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy. The Company and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have also pledged to collaborate towards ensuring sustainable power supply and boosting Nigeria’s energy transition through optimisation of gas-to-power initiatives.   READ ALSO: Egbin records 360MW daily shortfall, mulls $40m investment…

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Advans Nigeria Partners LUTH, Celebrates World Blood Donor Day 

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

To commemorate this year’s World Blood Donor Day, staff of Advans Nigeria, including the MD/CEO Mr. Gaetan Debuchy participated in a Blood Donation Drive at their Head Office Annex in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. Initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO), World Blood Donor Day aims to raise global awareness of the need for safe transfusion of blood and blood products while celebrating the critical contributions made by voluntary, unpaid blood donors to national health systems.   READ ALSO: Lies People Aged 40 and Above Believe about Their Health +…

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Nigerian Varsity, UNN, Awards $1 Prize To Best Graduating Students

Precious Ibekwe

“…even runners-up in the Big Brother Naija show still smile home with magnificent prizes such as Sports Utility Vehicles in a television programme devoid of academic rigour.”     One of the first generation Universities in Nigeria, University of Nigeria Nsuka (UNN), has awarded the sum of N1000 and N1500 to its best graduating students in several categories. In one of the categories, three students bagged first class and the prize was N1,500 to be shared among the three of them translating into N500 for each prize winner. The 49th…

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‘Twitter writes Nigeria over suspension, seeks dialogue’

Dawood Rabiu

“For Twitter to resume operation in Nigeria, there must be an agreement as to what contents it could post,” Lai Mohammed rolls out conditions for microblogging site   Microblogging site, Twitter, has formally written to seek for dialogue with Nigeria on issues leading to the indefinite suspension of its operations in the country. The country’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who declared this when he, on Tuesday, featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “I can…

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BREAKING: Buhari Flags Off $12bn NLNG Train 7 Ground-Breaking

Efe Wellington

  Buhari who flaunted official role he played in NLNG inauguration when he was a Minister in 1978, says Train 7 project is to propel Nigeria as a major gas exporter, fully industrialised nation     Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday flagged off the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7, a project he said would help propel Nigeria as a major gas exporter and a fully industrialised nation. Project promoter, NLNG, says the project would attract $12 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Platforms Africa reports that Buhari who…

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Real Reason I Sold My 2 Daughters for N300,000 – Nigerian Housewife

Gbenga Adeoti

  A 35-year-old Nigerian housewife, Blessing Agoro, arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her two daughters, has opened up on the reason she took that decision. According to the Police, Blessing, who pleaded for mercy, disclosed that she sold the two daughters she personally gave birth to – Semilore Agoro (four), and Deborah Agoro (two) – because her husband, Oluwaseyi Agoro, left home.   READ ALSO: Girl Who Filmed George Floyd’s Murder Wins Pulitzer, Top Journalism Award How Covenant Varsity lecturer Lured, Raped student Inside…

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$2bn Dangote Urea Plant Unsettles Africa’s Biggest Fertaliser Market

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

  How Africa’s richest man Dangote is dipping Nigeria’s Fertaliser Imports, trucks out 120 urea tanker loads daily   The $2bn Dangote Urea Plant has begun to unsettle the Africa’s biggest Fertaliser market for foreign-importers. Platforms Africa reports that the fertiliser plant by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote is dipping the Nigeria’s Fertaliser Imports (biggest in the continent) with truck out of 120 urea tanker loads on daily basis.   READ ALSO: DPR confirms Platforms Africa Exclusive Story on Shakeup, Deputy Directors BIG BROTHER! Nigeria To Sell Unused Electricity To…

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