Day: October 16, 2021

Excitement as Saudi Mosques Return To Capacity, Relax Social Distancing

Aliyu Aliyu

How news sparked excitement among World 2 billion Muslim population and effect on next year Hajj operations   Saudi Arabia Mosques have started to return to full capacity with more worshippers getting set to converged within the religious centres to perform their prayer sessions and other rites. Platforms Africa reports that this came after the country’s government relaxed compulsory use of face masks, social distancing, and other COVID-19 protocols ahead of next year’s hajj. The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced that due to a significant nationwide decline in COVID-19 cases as…

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Former Emir of Kano’s Manic Megalomania in Kaduna, By Farooq A. Kperogi

Farooq A. Kperogi

On October 12, I received a message on WhatsApp, which the platform flagged as being “forwarded many times,” about how former Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (or whatever he calls himself these days) caused Governor Nasir el-Rufai to fire his Chief of Staff for the “offence” of referring to Sanusi as the “former emir of Kano.” Because WhatsApp has become a cesspit of false, malicious misinformation, my default inclination was to dismiss the forwarded message as yet another fetid rhetorical garbage huckstered by low-IQ philistines who are still after…

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JUST IN: APC Suspends Oyo State Congress as Fake Voting Papers Flood Centre

Gbenga Adeoti

The national leadership of the Nigeria’s  ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the suspension of the ongoing State Congress in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, due to the forging of documents meant for the exercise and other irregularities. Platforms Africa reports that the Governor of Yobe State and Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, gave the order. READ ALSO: JUST IN: How Spirit Of God Led Me to Join APC, Dump PDP – Fani-Kayode JUST IN: Iyorchia Ayu emerges PDP’s consensus National Chairmanship Candidate Award-winning Nigerian Journalist, Adeola…

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ThisDay Editor, Obinna Chima, Wife Welcome Triplet + PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

What Friends, colleagues said at Lagos St. John Catholic Church dedication of the two boys and a girl named Michael, Raphael, and Gabriella   An Editor with ThisDay newspaper, Mr. Obinna Chima, has, together with his wife, welcome a set of Triplet Platforms Africa reports that Chima’s friend and colleague, Sunday Micheal Ogwu, who broke the news on his Facebook page, stated that the triplet is a set of two boys and a girl.   Rejoicing with the Chimas, Ogwu, an editor with Daily Trust newspaper, added that the children…

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How UI, UNILAG, LASU Researchers, Others Broke Guiness World Record

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Implementation of the research, which Guiness World Record tagged ‘Most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper,’ could prevent an additional 58,687 COVID-19-related deaths in one year.”   A study carried out by researchers from the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Lagos State University in conjunction with counterparts from other leading universities in Nigeria, has been awarded the Guinness World Records title for the world’s largest scientific collaboration. Platforms Africa reports that the study led by University of Birmingham and Edinburgh experts involved over 140,000 (One hundred and forty…

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