Day: March 28, 2022

BREAKING: Terrorists Bomb 970-Passenger Abuja-Kaduna Train

Aliyu Aliyu

Suspected bandit terrorists have detonated bombs on the railtrack of Abuja-Kaduna train and successfully immobilised it. Sources confirmed the attack on Monday night, saying the attack occurred at a point between Katari and Rijana. READ ALSO: BREAKING! 7 Trapped As Two 20ft Containers Fall On 3 Cars In Lagos +VIDEO N19bn Petrol Imported Into Nigeria Did Not Get To Destination Nigerians Spent $39.66bn on Foreign Education, Medical Tourism in 10 Years– CBN report JUST IN: Terrorists Attack Nigeria’s Kaduna Airport, Kill NAMA Staff One of the passengers who confirmed the…

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BREAKING! 7 Trapped As Two 20ft Containers Fall On 3 Cars In Lagos +VIDEO

Ganiyu Amodu

Occupants of the ill-fated private cars struggle with lives as containers empty chemical content   Two chemical-laden 20 feet containers, on Monsay night, fallen on three private cars in Lagos, emptying, also, their contents on seven trapped occupants of the cars. Platforms Africa reports that the accident, which occured at O Mark School Bus stop inward Iyana-Iba Igando LASU road, has worsened traffic gridlock on the road. READ ALSO: N19bn Petrol Imported Into Nigeria Did Not Get To Destination Nigerians Spent $39.66bn on Foreign Education, Medical Tourism in 10 Years–…

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Microsoft Opens New $127m Tech Hubs in Lagos, Nairobi

Aoko Benjamin

Microsoft opens new $27 million tech talent hub in Nairobi days after unveiling another facility in Lagos, which reoirtedly cost about $100 million. The Nairobi building boasts self-heating windows, a mini solar plant to power the facility, and a water treatment facility to recycle and purify the water. Last week, the global tech giant also launched a new facility for its first Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos, Nigeria. Microsoft has launched its new facility for its premier engineering hub in Dunhill Towers in Westlands, Nairobi, three years after operating…

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Polaris Bank, CIG Motors Ink Vehicle Finance Scheme Deals

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘Easy Buy’ Scheme for Nigerians’ seamless vehicle acquisition, ownership – Polaris Bank   Polaris Bank in partnership with CIG Motors has introduced ‘Easy Buy’, an affordable vehicle finance scheme meant to make vehicle acquisition and ownership easier for its teeming customers, prospects and fleet buyers in the country. Platforms Africa reports that the Bank and the auto giant announced the scheme on Friday at a joint press conference in Lagos to announce the newly-reviewed partnership with improved incentives that will afford customers and prospects the opportunity to acquire affordably priced…

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N19bn Petrol Imported Into Nigeria Did Not Get To Destination

Aliyu Aliyu

116.46m litres fuel Stolen in One year, say NNPC reports + BREAKDOWN N19 billion worth of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) generally known as petrol imported Into Nigeria did not get to the final consumers in the countrt, its intended destination. The product, which translated to a total of 116.46 million litres (worth N18.88 billion) was stolen in 2021, data from different reports obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited showed. Figures contained in various NNPC reports on Product Pipeline Performance for PMS showed that from January 2021 till December…

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1.8m Candidates Registered For UTME 2022 Exercise – JAMB

Abibat Babalola

The board has also scheduled its examinations to hold from May 6 to May 16. 1, 837, 011 candidates were registered at the end of its 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said. Platforms Africa reports that the board, which disclosed this in its Weekly Bulletin on Monday in Abuja, said that the figure included the Direct Entry (DE) candidates. READ ALSO: Strike: Consider Students’ Interest, Olubadan Begs Govt., ASUU Nigerians Spent $39.66bn on Foreign Education, Medical Tourism in 10 Years– CBN…

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Transfer Abba Kyari, 6 Others To Prison Custody, Court Orders NDLEA

Abibat Babalola

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, ordered the transfer of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, and six others that are facing drug trafficking charges with him, to the Kuje Correctional Center. The court equally denied bail to former members of the IRT, ACP Sunday Ubia, Inspector Simon Agirgba, and Inspector John Nuhu. Trial Justice Emeka Nwike ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to transfer the Defendants to prison custody, shortly after he denied them bail. Abba Kyari, asides this case, is…

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Why More Men Die During Sex Than Women

Ayobami Adedinni

Contrary to popular belief, sex itself is not a major cause of heart failure but this is what usually kill “men in action”   Men are more predisposed to the risky life styles and problems of life that leads one to have a heart failure, a medical expert, Dr Akin Oyejoko has revealed. Oyejoko who is a Health Policy analyst, and Group Medical Director, Solomon Jayden Medical Centre, Iju, Nigeria  made this known at the weekly e-Discourse organised by Platforms Africa. Platforms Africa, an e-Community of intellectuals, Policy moulders and…

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PROF ADEBIYI DARAMOLA: EXIT OF AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR, BY ADEGBENRO ADEBANJO

Adegbenro Adebanjo

  “If he had any fault, it was his dogged commitment to causes he believed in and his resolute determination to ensure that those who worked with him deliver on assigned mandates,” Adegbenro Adebanjo pens emotional tributes for Professor Adebiyi Gregory Daramola, former Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA   In the death of Professor Adebiyi Gregory Daramola, former Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA the academic world has lost an erudite scholar, a pragmatic administrator, bridge builder and a courageous visionary leader. From the beginning…

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Strike: Consider Students’ Interest, Olubadan Begs Govt., ASUU

Abibat Babalola

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, has called on all stakeholders in the education sector to intervene in the current face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which has plunged the university lecturers into strike. The monarch, in a statement made available to Platforms Africa on Sunday, appealed to the two parties to consider the interest of the students and end the strike, which is six weeks old. The Olubadan made the appeal during the courtesy visit to him at his Alarere palace by…

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