The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has accused the Nigerian Government of ignoring court judgments against it. Platforms Africa reports that Deputy Director at SERAP, Kolawole Oluwadare, who said this in Lagos at a Media Roundtable on promoting transparency and accountability in the education, water and health sectors in Nigeria, added that seven judgements are yet to be obeyed by government while the group has over 40 pending lawsuits. “For every lawsuit, it will be preceded by a letter of advocacy asking them to respond to issues. It’s when that…
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Savannah Acquires ExxonMobil, Petronas’ Entire Assets in Chad, Cameroon
Savannah Energy PLC has announced that it has signed a Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) with Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil International Holdings, Inc. and Esso Exploration Holdings, Inc. (“Exxon”) and has separately signed an SPA with PETRONAS (E&P) Overseas Ventures SDN. BHD. (“PETRONAS (E&P) Overseas Ventures”). Platforms Africa reports that the British independent energy company focused around the delivery of Projects that Matter in Africa, which made this announcement in a statement, added that the deals were “relating to the purchase of each of their entire upstream and midstream asset portfolios…
Read MoreNigeria Customs Begins Recruitment + Step-By-Step Process for Applicants
Nigeria Customs Service is recruiting. APPLY HERE: http://www.customs.gov.ng The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has begun another round of recruitment exercise. Customs in a statement said the supplementary recruitment from 13th December, 2021. “Nigeria Customs Service has commenced the process beginning with opening the portal for applications today 13th December 2021,” it stated. READ ALSO:Hours After Platforms Africa Exclusive, Police Begins Nov Salary Payment EXCLUSIVE: Why 371,800 Nigerian Police Officers’ November Salary is Delayed UNCOVERED: TCN’s Budget Non-Transparent on Personnel, Overhead, recurrent Spending It however indicated that all interested candidates…
Read More1921-2021: How Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrated 100 years in Nigeria
Jehovah’s Witness celebrated the religious group’s 100 years presence in Nigeria on Sunday since its presence in 1921. The celebratory centenary event was a three–hour programme titled, ‘History-100 Years of Courage! Jehovah’s Witness in Nigeria’. The programme featured the organisation’s early beginnings in the country from 1921 broken into segments; “1921-1946: Small Beginnings; 1947-1972: Standing Firm Under Test; 1973-1979: Period of Increase and 1998-2021: Courageous Stand in Modern Times.” During the event, the efforts of the earliest missionaries in Nigeria, Claud Brown and Willaim ‘Bible’ Brown, in spreading the message…
Read MoreSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa Tests Positive for COVID-19
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…
Read MoreSheikh Gumi: How Bandits Kidnapped my Brother, Killed Family Driver
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,…
Read MoreUNCOVERED: TCN’s Budget Non-Transparent on Personnel, Overhead, recurrent Spending
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…
Read MoreHow NNPC Downed Expenditure by N299.44bn, Recorded ₦142bn Trading Surplus
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…
Read MoreSam Ogrih Wins Real Estate Personality of the Year 3 Times In a row
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…
Read MoreBREAKING: Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, is dead
How the popular monarch “joined his ancestors” at 95 after weeks of illness Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, the Soun of Ogbomoso, Southwest Nigeria, is dead, Oba Oyewumi was 95 years when he joined his ancestors early this morning (Sunday) after a 48-year reign. Palace sources told Platforms Africa that Oba Oyewumi passed on peacefully after taking ill in recent weeks. Though the death is yet to be announced officially according to the customs and tradition of the people, his subjects are already mourning his passage. The palace is…
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