Former Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday evening, escaped death after he was involved in an auto crash in Abuja The accident claimed the lives of two of his aides, Leadership reports. One of his aides was quoted as saying that the former president was fine and back home. The accident reportedly happened while Jonathan was on his way from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to his residence in Abuja.
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The bickering between a group involving Shell, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), and seven Nigerian bank, and Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited over $2 billion loan accessed by Aiteo has degenerated. A high court in England has ruled that Shell Plc, Africa Finance Corporation, and seven Nigerian banks have established their right to block Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited from taking legal action when a suit initiated by them against the oil firm has not been resolved. The verdict approving the “final anti-suit injunction” was delivered on April 1, according to…
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Shell has been recognised as Lead Tax Compliant Firm in Nigeria With payment of $6 billion in direct taxes in the five years the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS has named Shell as a “leading tax compliant organisation in Nigeria for 2021.” Platforms Africa reports that the award ceremony in Abuja last week was a part of the second annual National Tax Dialogue, where Shell companies in Nigeria also won the award for ‘remarkable performance in the remittance of various taxes’ in the same year. The Shell Petroleum Development Company…
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“Mr. Compaore is guilty of the assassination and concealment of the corpse of Sankara, a reformer, who was his friend and predecessor, for him to take over and rule Burkina Faso for 27 years” A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after…
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Sheikh Nuru Speaks on his new appointment after being sacked for “speaking truth to power.” Former Chief Imam of the Apo legislative quarters mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has said that his sack by the Mosque’s committee was a necessary price he had to pay for identifying with the sufferings masses and speaking truth to power. Platforms Africa reports that hours after the announcement of his sack as Chief Imam of the Apo legislative quarters mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid has secured a new appointment. Breaking the new in an interview in…
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The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria on Monday said that it generated N346.6 million from tickets sold across the country in March. The CEAN’s National President, Patrick Lee, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. Lee said that the figure represented a 45 percent increase compared to the 189 million realized in March 2021. READ ALSO: Reactions As Adeboye’s Son, Leke, Calls RCCG Pastor ‘Goat’ How I Fell In Love, 25 Yr-Old Speaks On Plan To Marry 85 Yr-Old Grandma DR Congo Polygamy Ban…
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“Oluomo blatantly refused to “tender unreserved apology” since March 15, he stands removed,” National president, Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, and general secretary, Alhaji Kabiru Ado Ya’u, declared The National Union of Road Transport Workers has dissolved its Lagos State council under Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo. National Administrative Council of the union made this known in a statement titled ‘Dissolution of Lagos State Administrative Council’, jointly signed by its national president, Alhaji Tajudeen Baruwa, and general secretary, Alhaji Kabiru Ado Ya’u. The union said the decision was…
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“GOAT is an acronym for greatest of all time. Why are we so upset at the pastor being called a goat? Leke even used “sir” to show he called them goats with respect.” “No, he should be suspended, quite disgusting of him to bring the internal ramblings/politics to the media! He should be ready for the storm he brewed!” Leke Adeboye, the son of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has sparked diverse reactions on social media after he slammed erring pastors…
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Former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu on Tuesday arrived in Kaduna to meet with Governor Nasir El-Rufai and commiserate with the state government and people of the state over the recent train attack by terrorists locally known as bandits. Mr Tinubu, who was accompanied by former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, announced the donation of N50 million to victims of the attack. He was received by Governor El-Rufai and Senators Uba Sani and Suleiman Abdu-Kwari at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, the Kaduna State seat of power. Others on…
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