Day: September 29, 2021

BREAKING: Nigeria declares Friday, October 1 public holiday

Aliyu Aliyu

The Nigerian Government has declared Friday, October 1 as a public holiday to mark the 61st Independence anniversary celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government. He congratulated all Nigerians on the 61st independence and assured of the government’s commitment to tackle and eradicate all forms of challenges and all diverse problems. READ ALSO: How Grandma Collected N50k bribe from Man Who Defiled Her 3-Year old Girl – Police BREAKING: Chike, NAFDAC late DG Dora Akunyili’s husband, murdered, brother fingers IPOB…

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How Grandma Collected N50k bribe from Man Who Defiled Her 3-Year old Girl – Police

Gbenga Adeoti

The Nigerian Police has confirmed the arrest of a grand mother that allegedly collected N50,000 bribe from a man, Seun Olarewaju, who raped her 3-year-old grand daughter to cover up the crime. The Ekiti State Police Command, which stated this in a statement obtained by Platforms Africa, declared that the two suspects are in its custody. The grandmother of the victim was particularly arrested after investigation revealed that she collected the sum of N50,000 to cover up the act. According to a statement by the Ekiti State Police Public Relations…

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Nigeria Approves Paternity Leave For Fathers of Newly-born Babies

Aliyu Aliyu

In a case of what observers described as what a woman can do a man can do better, the Nigerian Government has approved paternity leave for fathers of newly born babies. Platforms Africa reports that the country’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved a 14-day paternity leave for male Federal civil servants to allow them to bond with their infants. The FEC explained that the leave was to give the new fathers ample time for proper bonding between the father and a newborn, either natural-born or adopted, especially at the early…

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BREAKING: Chike, NAFDAC late DG Dora Akunyili’s husband, murdered, brother fingers IPOB

Precious Ibekwe

Gunmen have murdered Chike Akunyili, the husband of late Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Dora Akunyili. Available reports showed that Chike was killed on Tuesday night near Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. A source said: He went for his late wife’s memorial lecture in Onitsha and was going back to Enugu, that was when the thing happened. “He was shot dead by gunmen. “I don’t know how it happened.” READ ALSO: BREAKING: Nigerian Popular Senator Bala Na’Allah’s…

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77 Oil Firms’ Tax, Royalty Debts to Nigerian Govt hit $6.48bn – NEITI

Efe Wellington

The debts amounting N2.659 trillion could have constructed all the roads, built all installations, and covered the entire capital budget of the Nigeria government in 2020   77 oil and gas companies are indebted to the Nigerian government with a whooping $6.48billion equivalent to N2.659 trillion, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has declared. Platforms Africa reports that the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, who said this during a media briefing on the status of EITI implementation in Nigeria and the agency’s mid-year scorecard in the…

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Nigeria’s Popular Broadcaster, Lookman Femi Saheed Loofemsah, is dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

Wife of Loofemsah gives account of how the Producer of major programs during Muslim fasting, breathed his last, committed to mother earth   Nigeria’s popular briadcaster and Independent Broadcast Producer, Lookman Femi Saheed, known by majority as Loofemsah, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Loofemsah’s associate, Alhaji Banji Busari, who announced his death on Tuesday, quoted wife of the deceased as the source of the information. The wife, a statement that Busari shared on WhatsApp read, confirmed that her husband was sick briefly before he breathed his last on Tuesday,…

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