Month: April 2022

Nigerians’ Spending On Cinema Hits N340m In March – CEAN

ADEOLA YUSUF

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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NURTW Fires MC Oluomo, Announces Seyi Bankole As New State Chairman

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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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Reactions As Adeboye’s Son, Leke, Calls RCCG Pastor ‘Goat’

ADEOLA YUSUF

“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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Tinubu Visits El-Rufai, Donates N50m To Victims Of Train Attack

ADEOLA YUSUF

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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How I Fell In Love, 25 Yr-Old Speaks On Plan To Marry 85 Yr-Old Grandma

ADEOLA YUSUF

*8 children and 20 grandchildren of Theresa, my 85 year-old landlady, are against the marriage plan but we will walk down the aisle.” Here, according to the two love birds, is how they met and became inseparable   A 25-year-old man identified as Muyiwa is set to walk down the aisle with his 85-year-old lover against all odds The young man who is head over heels in love with the woman said the way she treated him pushed him to love her The old woman who has 8 children and…

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Group Heightens Special Status Demand For Lagos

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ibile Eko Summit Group has heightened its demand of special status for Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, maintaining that this is long overdue. The group, which said this in a press release sent to Platforms Africa, maintained that the late head of state, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed, had, in about ten days to his unfortunate assassination in 1976, envisaged the special status for the state. READ ALSO: Catholic, “The Priest’s War” Producer Take Bickering To Youtube After Platforms Africa report, Nigerian Police To Get 20% Salary Upgrade Nigerian Varsities May Be…

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FSI Partners FUTMinna on Virtual Hackathon Solutions for MSMEs

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Financial Services Innovators (FSI), a Nigerian non-profit organisation committed to enabling start-ups within the technology and financial space, has said that it reaffirmed its commitment to creating inclusive financial solutions in suburban Nigeria with the announcement of the final round of the ‘IncludeMe’ virtual hackathon competition. According to a statement sent to Platforms Africa, the virtual Hackathon, which started in March, is aimed at engendering inclusive financial solutions for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, focusing on the banking and insurance services sectors in Northern Nigeria. The statement added that…

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DR Congo Polygamy Ban Fails, Country Men Compete, Marry More Wives

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘The dream is to get to seven wives,’ said Congolese church pastor Chirhuza Zagabe who has fathered 16 children from four wives in a country that has outlawed polygamy over 30 years ago.   In 2012, the 60-year-old married three women simultaneously in his church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He repudiated one for ‘bad behaviour,’ but now has four aged between 26 and 48 through other marriages. Zagabe’s situation shows that polygamy persists in the vast central African country, where advocates strongly back the practice of being married…

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11 Soldiers Feared Dead In Fresh Terrorists’ Attack On Kaduna

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘Some of the bandits were carrying Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG). They engaged the soldiers for about 2 hours” 11 soldiers have been reportedly killed during an encounter with a large number of suspected terrorists who invaded a military base at the Pole wire village, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State. Lagos-based Vanguard newspaper quoted a source to have confirmed that the bandits on motorbikes invaded the base and opened fire on the soldiers. The source further stated that ”Some of the bandits were carrying Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG). They engaged the soldiers for about…

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Catholic, “The Priest’s War” Producer Take Bickering To Youtube

ADEOLA YUSUF

Why YouTube Must Delete Controversial Movie – Pope Francis Film, a must-documented true life story about Catholics – Producer The bickering between the Catholic Church and producer of controversial movie, “The Priest’s War,” Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor, has degenerated and taken to YouTube. Platforms Africa reports the Church has demanded that Youtube pull the movie off its network. Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor, the producer of the controversial Nollywood movie has replied the leader of the Catholic Church Pope Francis who calls on YouTube to pull down the movie. READ ALSO:First Black Pope Hopeful in…

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