Month: June 2022

Yobe Deputy Gov Loses Two Children Same Day in Auto Crash

ADEOLA YUSUF

Gubana’s seven-year-old son, Mai Mala Buni Junior, died on the spot.   The Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Idi Barde Gubana, has lost his daughter, Khadija, in an auto crash. The accident, which occurred along the Maiduguri-Kano highway on Saturday, June 11, also claimed the life of Gubana’s seven-year-old son, Mai Mala Buni Junior, on the spot. READ ALSO: ‘How Female Journalist Raheemat Momodu Slumped During Meeting, Died’ 200-level Varsity Student who ‘committed suicide’ is NCC Board Chairman’s Daughter How NCC official, wife, 4 kids, niece, driver died in road…

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TotalEnergies Marketing Raked In N341bn In 2021, Paid N7.54bn Dividends

ADEOLA YUSUF

TotalEnergies Marketing Nigeria Plc has said that it raked in N341,346,345 revenues as of 31st of December, 2021 as the company declared payment of N7.54 billion dividends to shareholders. Chairman of TotalEnergies, Mr. Jean-Philippe Torres, who declared this at the 44th Annual General Meeting of the company in Lagos, maintained that TotalEnergies Marketing distributed the sum of #1.36 Billion as interim dividends, representing #4.00 (Four Naira only) per share for the year ended 31st December, 2021. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Buhari Hikes Fuel Freight Rate, Worsens Subsidy Burden Nigeria, Six Others…

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Overland Aircraft’s Engine Catches Fire Midair, Pilot Declares Emergency

ADEOLA YUSUF

The pilots had sent out a Mayday, an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications, to the Lagos control tower. A four-member flight crew of Overland Airways made a successful landing of a distressed aircraft on the Runway 18R of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday evening, after the plane’s engine caught fire mid-air. The ATR 42 aircraft, which has 37 passengers on board, was en-route Ilorin-Lagos when the plane suddenly developed a major fault. The pilots had sent out a Mayday…

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CAC Begins Private Schools Registration As Limited Liability Companies

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Why we won’t register private schools às business entities but liability companies” The Corporate Affairs Commission says it has commenced registration of private schools as limited liability companies and not as a business entity to ensure continuity. The Head of CAC Zonal Office in Kaduna, Abdulkadir Modibbo, disclosed this in Kaduna, Kaduna State on Thursday. This was at a two-day consultative meeting on the formulation of policy to guide operations of private schools in Kaduna State. READ ALSO: NNPC’s Corporate Existence Altered, CAC completes Oil giant’s Incorporation Lagos Gets 2…

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Police Academy lecturer petitions ICPC, accuses professor of certificate forgery

ADEOLA YUSUF

A lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil Kano State, Dr Goddy Igbaekemen, has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over alleged certificate forgery and criminal conspiracy involving the Dean of Post Graduate School, Professor Suleiman Saye, and Mr Charles Egumba, the Registrar of the institution. Igbaekemen had on January 12, 2022, in a letter addressed to the Chairman, ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, claimed that Saye, a former Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences who is now the Dean…

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BREAKING: Buhari Hikes Fuel Freight Rate, Worsens Subsidy Burden

ADEOLA YUSUF

Though the hike would not change the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also know as petrol from N165 per litre, it would jerk up the under recovery also known as subsidy payable on the product. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the hike in transporters freight rate with effect from June 1, 2022. Platforms Africa reports that though the hike would not change the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also know as petrol from N165 per litre, it would jerk up the under recovery also known…

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BREAKING: Real Reasons I Chose Okowa Ahead Wike, Others as Running Mate — Atiku

ADEOLA YUSUF

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 elections in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has offered reasons why he chose the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate. Abubakar offered the reasons at the unveiling of Okowa at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja on Thursday. At the ceremony, which was attended by all members of the National Working Committee of the party, the former Vice President said that he needed a strong deputy who can help him in correcting the ills the All…

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Nigeria, Six Others Suffer Oil Production Decline – OPEC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Angela’s oil production climbs to 1.17m bopd in May The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has released a fresh report on crude oil production of its member countries, indicating that six countries increased their crude oil output while seven countries declined in production. The information was contained in OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report for May 2022, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria. The report showed that crude oil output increased in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Angola, Algeria and Congo, while production in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq, Gabon,…

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You’ll Enjoy Improved Power Supply From July 1, NERC Assures Nigerians

ADEOLA YUSUF

NERC Chairman gives reasons some power supply issues rocking Nigeria may end in two weeks   Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Sanusi Garba, has declared that Nigerians will begin to enjoy improved power supply from July 1 following renewed efforts by industry stakeholders. Platforms Africa reports that Mr Garba gave the assurance at an interactive session with newsmen after the Second Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, meeting on Wednesday in Lagos. READ ALSO: Nationwide Blackout As Grid Suffers 4th Collapse in 88 Days I Am Angry With State of…

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Lagos Tenant Allegedly Rapes Neighbour’s Teenage Daughter, Commits Suicide

ADEOLA YUSUF

A man, identified only as Kayode, has committed suicide after his neighbour’s daughter accused him of raping her twice at their house in the Oja-Amukoko area of Lagos State. Platforms Africa gathered that the victim’s mother, who had a stroke, was taken to the Ikorodu area for treatment. The suspect, who was put in care of the 16-year-old at home, was said to have taken advantage of her. READ ALSO: Imo: Terrorists Rape Soldier Before Fiancé, Behead Victims, Post Video Ilaro Poly Female Students Raped As Robbers invade off-campus apartments…

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