July 2021 – Platformsafrica

48-Year-Old Nigerian father Remanded For Defiling His 3 Daughters + PHOTOS

July 31, 2021 Precious Ibekwe

A court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, has remanded a 48-year-old man, Igbo Thomas, for allegedly defiling his three daughters aged 8 years, 4 years and 18 months. The suspect was arraigned at the High Court on Wednesday, July 28, and ordered to be remanded at the Awka Correctional Centre by the judge. READ ALSO:Outrage as UNILORIN 300-level Female Student ‘Raped to Death’ + PHOTOS How Covenant Varsity lecturer Lured, Raped student Inside office – Police I rape grandmothers because I can’t resist their jiggling ‘bum bum’ –…

Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, Buried In Lagos

July 30, 2021 Tade Salako

The slain Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has been buried in Lagos. He was buried around 12.30pm in a low-key ceremony attended by his family members, including his wife, and friends. According to the programme for the burial, as issued by the family, a Service of Songs will hold on Thursday, July 29, 2021, at the Incubator, in Victoria Island, Lagos. A funeral service will hold the next day, (Friday, July 30, 2021) at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos and his remains interred…

How I Bribed Nigerian Top Cop Abba Kyari In A $1.1 million Deal – Hushpuppi

July 29, 2021 Wonuola Olujobi

Nigerian infamous fraudster who recently pleaded guilty in the United States, Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas, has given details of how he allegedly bribed Nigeria’s celebrated police commander Abba Kyari, I In a $1.1 million deal. According to court documents, Mr Abbas admitted before Court to paying bribes to Mr Kyari, a deputy police commissioner, to have one of his rivals arrested and imprisoned in Nigeria after a dispute over a $1.1 million swindle of a Qatari businessman. Mr. Kyari did not immediately return calls and messages seeking his response to Mr…

National grid suffers 3rd Collapse in 5 months, Darkness Rocks Nigeria FCT

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 Damilola Olonade

The grid has collapsed more than 128 times since the nation’s power sector was privatised in 2013 The Nigeria’s electricity transmission system also known as the Nationa grid today, Wednesday July 28, suffered the third major collapse in the last five months. Platforms Africa gathered that the partial collapse which rocked the grid on Wednesday plunged the Abuja, Nigeria’s seat of power and other major cities into darkness. The last time the system sufferef this similar fate was on Wednesday, May 12, an incident that lasted for 6 hours…

BREAKING: Court Frees El-Zakzaky, Wife After 6 Years of Detention

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 ADEOLA YUSUF

“The case of the prosecution is manifestly unreliable”-Justice Gideon Kurada After almost six years in detention, a Kaduna High Court on Wednesday granted freedom to the Shiite Movement in Nigeria leader, Mallam Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat. Justice Gideon Kurada, the trial judge upheld the no case submission filed by lawyer to El-Zakzaky, Femi Falana to the effect that the prosecutor did not establish a prima facie case against the religious leader. The trial judge therefore discharged and acquitted them and ordered their immediate release from detention.…

Secretary to opposition party in Lagos, PDP, Dosunmu Shodipe, is dead

July 28, 2021 Tade Salako

Lagos State chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the passing of its State Secretary, Prince Muiz Dosunmu Shodipe. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the party’s spokesperson, Mr. Taofik Gani, but refused to disclose further information. it, however, gathered that Shodipe, who has been nursing an undisclosed ailment for some time now, died in Lagos on Wednesday morning. The family is yet to announce his burial arrangements. PDP, while mourning the passing of the politician, described it as one death…

African Union under fire, disregards members, grants Israel observer status

July 28, 2021 Aoko Benjamin

South Africa, Algiers voiced condemnation of the decision of the African Union to grant Israel observer status to the pan-African organisation The South African government said on Wednesday it is ‘appalled’ at the African Union Commission’s decision which granted Israel an official observer status at the African Union. ‘The government of South Africa is appalled at the unjust and unwarranted decision of the AU Commission to grant Israel observer status in the African Union. The African Union Commission has taken this decision unilaterally without consultations with its members,’ said spokesperson…

Undetected, Untreated Hepatitis kill 124,000 Africans Yearly – WHO

July 28, 2021 Tade Salako

As Nigeria joined the world community to mark the 2021 World Hepatitis Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said over 124,000 Africans die every year from the consequences of undetected and untreated hepatitis. In a message to mark the day, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti disclosed that around 4.5 million African children under five years old are infected with chronic hepatitis B, reflecting an enormous 70 per cent of the global burden in this age group. READ ALSO: Lies People Aged 40 and Above Believe…

Naira crashes to N505/$ as CBN scraps Forex sale to Bureau de Changes

July 28, 2021 Precious Ibekwe

The naira fell slightly to the dollar at the parallel market few hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday announced the discontinuity of forex supplies to the Bureau de Change Operators in the country. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the end of forex sales and new licence approval after the Monetary Policy Committee two-day meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. He expressed the MPC’s disappointment over their continuous abuse of the privilege. At the end of the meeting, the MPC retained the lending rates and other parameters. READ…

‘Why We Put 42 Nigerian State House Staff Under Oath of Secrecy’

July 28, 2021 Aliyu Aliyu

The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar on Tuesday in Abuja warned staff that disclosing confidential information without authorisation will attract penalties under the public service rules. According to a press release signed by Patience Tilley-Gyado, Assistant Director Information, State House, Tuesday, the Permanent Secretary stated this at the administration of Oath of Secrecy and Declaration of Secrecy to 42 staff of the State House, administered by Justice Hamza Muazu of the FCT High Court. READ ALSO: Afenifere ‘Betrayed’ Awolowo, Abiola, Igboho, supporters watch out – MURIC Malawi president, 10 aides travel to UK for virtual conference, blames poor internet Nigeria’s President Buhari…