Day: July 19, 2021

Nigerians demand ‘Drill or Drop’ sanction for oilfields’ licensees

Efe Wellington

“The country is under heavy borrowing to meet its developmental needs While some national assets that could help tremendpusly ate undeveloped for over 10 years.”   With dwindling review into federation account and declining global relevance of fossil fuel as the world gradually transits to renewable energy, oil and gas industry experts in Nigeria have called for efficient use of mining assets by operators for the country to maximize its current potentials before fossil fuel loses its current value. While speaking on the diminishing status of oil and gas in…

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DSS arrests 3 Israelis in Nigeria over alleged links with IPOB

Precious Ibekwe

The Nigeria’s secret service, Department of State Security (DSS), has arrested three Israelis in the West African country. The Times of Israel, which confirmed this, added that the Israelis were shooting a documentary in a separatist region in southeast Nigeria when they were arrested last week. The newspapaer also quoted the Foreign Ministry to have confirmed this arrest on Tuesday. According to media reports, Nigerian authorities arrested and interrogated the trio on suspicion that they had come into contact with Biafran separatists.   READ ALSO: ‘How IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu…

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CBN fences others, offers Nigeria’s $1bn Sugar imports to 3 firms ‘only’

Adeola Yusuf

  Here are sour details of the sugar trio-poly and what other importers deprived of the business tagged; “an obituary for the sugarcane industry.”   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has fenced scores of sugar importers from the business as it approved the importation of sugar into the country to only three companies. The companies are BUA Sugar Refinery Ltd, owned by Abdul Samad Rabiu; Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, owned by Aliko Dangote; and Golden Sugar Company, owned by Oba Otudeko’s Flour Mill. Promoters of some of companies who hitherto participated…

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60,000 Muslims ascend Mount Arafat, peak Hajj rites, amidst COVID protocols

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How embargo on 2021 Hajj for Nigeria affects local prices of Sallah rams + dos and don’ts of COVID-19 For Abuja Muslims on Eid-el Kabir celebrations   60,000 Muslim faithful on Monday morning ascended the historic mount Arafat, peak of Hajj rites, amidst strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols. Platforms Africa reports that only these numbers of pilgrims resident in Saudi Arabia were allowed for the exercise this year. Nigeria and other countries could not participate as Saudi embargoed the Hajj for them this year. About 95,000 Nigerians were affected…

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Nigeria’s Popular broadcaster, Star FM GM El-Amin Gbadeyanka, dies

Gbenga Adeoti

  Lagos NUJ ex-Chair shares experience from last visit to late broadcaster on hospital bed 24 hours before his death   A popular broarcaster in Nigeria, Mr. El-Amin Gbadeyanka, popularly called Mr. G , is dead. Gbadeyanka, who was until his death, the General Manager Star FM radio service, passed on Saturday, July 17, at the Lagoon Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The immediate past chairman, Lagos State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Dr. Qazim Akinreti, who confirmed Gbadeyanka’s death narrated how he visited the deceased…

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AS IN VIETNAM, AMERICA BREAKS INTO A RUN IN AFGHANISTAN BY OWEI LAKEMFA

Owei LAKEMFA

BAGRAM Airfield and Military Base, 70 kilometres north of Kabul was the epicentre of the 40-country coalition war to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan. At a point in 2012, over 100,000 U.S. troops passed through Bagram which is also a notorious detention centre where no human rights are observed. It was the symbol of American and NATO might in Afghanistan. The American Newsweek Magazine in its Wednesday, July 14, 2021 issue gave a graphic description of Bagram: “The enormous base has two runways. The most recent, at 12,000 feet long, was built in 2006 at a…

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Airtel’s Mobile Operating License Pending Renewal – NCC

Aliyu Aliyu

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said the renewal of Airtel’s Mobile operating licence is still pending. The commission who disclosed this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa on Sunday by its Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde explained that the application of the renewal of the operating licence of Airtel Nigeria is yet to be approved as it is still undergoing required regulatory process. According to the statement, “The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission has been drawn to a recent statement on an online publication credited to the…

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