Day: December 13, 2021

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Tests Positive for COVID-19

Aoko Benjamin

Ramaphosa who visited Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja less than 14 days ago, “started feeling unwell after leaving the State Memorial Service in honor of former Deputy President FW de Klerk in Cape Town earlier Monday.”   South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment for mild Covid-19 symptoms after testing positive on Sunday, the office of the presidency said in a statement. He has delegated all responsibilities to Deputy President David Mabuza for the next week. Ramaphosa “started feeling unwell after leaving the State Memorial Service in honor…

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Sheikh Gumi: How Bandits Kidnapped my Brother, Killed Family Driver

Aliyu Aliyu

Gumi criticises new report on the Kidnap, which, he alleged, painted a picture “that the brother of the person supporting the bandits has also been kidnapped”   Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has opened up on the kidnap of his brother and killing of his father’s driver by bandits three years ago, stating that new report on the kidnap was done by mischief makers. Platforms Africa reports that Gumi, in a statement issued by his media consultant, Tukur Mamu, enjoined the public to disregard the latest news on tbe kidnap,…

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UNCOVERED: TCN’s Budget Non-Transparent on Personnel, Overhead, recurrent Spending

Ayobami Adedinni

Nigerian Power transmission firm budgets zero naira for staff salary, keeps mum to enquiry on holes in its N105bn budget   The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has budgeted Zero Naira for Personnel, Overhead and Recurrent Expenditure in its 2022 appropriations, Platforms Africa has uncovered, showing lack of trasparency in the N105 billion 2022 budget of the firm. Platforms Africa, which uncovered this, reported that the company was also not transparent on spending for its Personnel, Overhead and Recurrent Expenditure in the N5.3billion budget of 2021. It recorded zero naira…

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How NNPC Downed Expenditure by N299.44bn, Recorded ₦142bn Trading Surplus

Aliyu Aliyu

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has given details of how it recorded a huge leap in trading surplus of ₦141.96billion in June 2021 compared to a deficit of ₦37.46Billion in May 2021. Platforms Africa reports that this is contained in the June 2021 figures of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR). A trading surplus or trading deficit is derived after deduction of the expenditure profile from the revenue for the period under review. In June 2021, NNPC Group operating revenue as compared to May 2021, decreased…

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Sam Ogrih Wins Real Estate Personality of the Year 3 Times In a row

Aliyu Aliyu

Founder of  Delta Mega-Trend – a Real Estate Development and Civil Engineering works company, Prince Ogrih, has been unveiled as the winner of the Real Estate Personality of Year during the annual African Housing Awards, which held in Abuja, Nigeria recently. Platforms Africa reports that the winning completes a treble for Prince Ogrih, who was also named the Real Estate Personality of the Year in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Earlier this year, Prince Ogrih was also honored by a leading Nigerian Newspaper, Daily Independent as the Real Estate Personality of…

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