Day: November 28, 2021

Same Old Cruel Lies to Justify Fuel Price Hike, By Farooq A. Kperogi

Farooq A. Kperogi

Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Malam Mele Kyari, said on November 23 that the Buhari regime will inflict yet another pain at the pump by jacking up petrol prices to N340 per liter in February 2022. If this materializes, it would be the fourth time the regime has increased petrol prices in a five-year period. Every indication points to an irreversible resolve on the part of the regime to go through with the increase. The perennially predictable propaganda against “subsidy” has already…

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Nigerian Billionaire Coscharis President’s Wife, Charity, Dies of Stroke

Precious Ibekwe

How she went with her husband to attend a function in Nnewi but never returned, family reveals the end of woman believed by her family to be insane when she, years ago, insisted on getting married to Cosmas Maduka.   Charity, wife of Nigerian businessman, President and Chairman of the Coscharis Group, Cosmas Maduka, has died Platforms Africa gathered that the Vice President of Coscharis group died on Sunday afternoon after suffering a stroke. She died in Nnewi, where she went with her husband to attend a function. Her family…

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Stakeholders Offer Success Template For Nigeria’s Fuel Deregulation

Ayobami Adedinni

Team Lead, Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, opens up on real reasons fuel deregulation remains unpopular among Nigerians   Critical stakeholders in the Nigeria’s oil downstream subsector have suggested a template on how Nigeria can achieve full deregulation in the course of the current global energy transition. The stakeholders including the Chief Strategy Officer, Axxela Limited, Olufisayo Duduyemi, and Chief Executive Officer, All On, Dr. Wiebe Boer, spoke alongside Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, and other analysts during a panel session at the 2021 NAEC Strategic International Annual Conference…

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FUTA Student Condemned to Wheelchair By Accident, Finishes BSc 14 Yrs After

ADEOLA YUSUF

How I was broken, almost submerged by tears and pity, picked up my pieces and rose again, ghastly road accident and Wheelchair couldn’t stop me, Omoerijesu Temilade   A Student of Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Omoerijesu Temilade, who, during her final year in 2012, was condemned to a Wheelchair by a ghastly motor accident, has completed her BSc in Biology 14 years after. Platforms Africa reports that Temilade was involved in a debilitating road accident that changed the course of her life and made her wheelchair bound. Sharing…

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2-Month Telecoms Blackout Ends, NCC Restores Services In Kaduna Communities

Aliyu Aliyu

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the immediate restoration of telecommunications services for communities in Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that this approval came two months after the services were shut down in the state. A message from the NCC to Kaduna State Government read that the approval had been granted with immediate effect. READ ALSO: Beware, Be Prepared, COVID-19 Fighting Back – Buhari JUST IN: Man Arrested For Defiling Friend’s 10 Yr-Old Daughter in Lagos Nigeria Lifts Suspension on Emirates Airline, Ends 9 Months’ Bickering PHOTOS:…

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