Day: December 8, 2021

NDPHC Awards Multi-million Naira Owerri substation Deals to AK-AY Elektrik

Amodu Ganiyu

How we connected Lafia, Nasarawa to the national grid – NDPHC   The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, has completed and energized the Lafia 2X150 MVA, 2X60 /132/33330kV Transmission Substation, thereby connecting Lafia and Nasarawa to national grid. Platforms Africa reports that contract for the multi-billion Naira National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) 330/132/33kV Lafia Transmission Substation was awarded by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company in November 2016 while work commenced at the Akurba site in 2017. NIPP is aimed at strengthening electricity infrastructure and improve supply nationwide. READ…

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Don’t Tell Mum You Saw Me, Stranded Nigerian Begs as 180 Land from Libya

Ayobami Adedinni

The Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 180 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Platforms Africa reports that one of the affected men, in his forties, who sighted a known face at the Airport, pleaded with him not to tell his mother about his evacuation. The man who, like others, masked up, vehement declined an inquiry from Platforms Africa about his name and other identity. “She (mother) will be heart-broken,” he said, “she or anyone can not be told I was in Libya not to talk of the…

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VIDEO: Dowen College ex-Staff, Mother in Shouting Match Over Oromoni

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Platforms Africa has exclusively received the video recording of a zoom meeting among some of the critical stakeholders of Dowen College, including the mother of another student whose 11 year-old son was allegedly bullied like Sylvester Oromoni. Sylvester died after being bullied and tortured by senior students. The Police is investigating these allegations and the claim that he was tortured over his refusal to join a cult group. READ ALSO: Oil Minister confirms Platforms Africa Exclusive News on DPR, PPPRA, PEF scrapping, CEOs’ sack Buruji Kashamu’s Family kicks as…

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Their killers drained Their Blood, says Mother who lost 3 Kids in Lagos Abandoned Car

Damilola Olonade

They asked us to pay N100,000 for Autopsy per child. We have buried our children according to Islamic rites, a relative of the deceased kids said.   Mother of three of the eight children found dead in an abandoned car in Lagos, Afusat Isiaka, says that the blood of her children were drained when their corpses were discovered, insisting that they were killed. Platforms Africa reports that the corpses of the xhildren were recovered in a black Honda Pilot parked on Adelayo street, Jah-Michael, along Badagry expressway in Lagos, on…

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