Day: August 8, 2022

Ministerial Assent to ExxonMobil/Seplat Deals Remains Declined – NUPRC

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria’s oil regulator counters Buhari’s aide on $1.6bn deal in an announcement that has shown that all may not be well with country’s oil sector policy and polity   The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) affirms that status quo remains in respect of ExxonMobil/Seplat Energy share acquisition, Platforms Africa reports. This is contrary to an early declaration by Mr. Femi Adesina, Senior Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari who claimed that his principal has assented to the deal. Platforms Africa has exclusively reported the back and forth on the deals…

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JUST IN: Tanzania Police Release Kizz Daniel, Continue Probe

Abibat Babalola

+ the deal that landed the Buga crooner in and out of police cell in East African country The Tanzanian Police have released popular Nigerian singer, Oluwatobiloba Daniel, aka Kizz Daniel. Nigeria’s Abike Dabiri-Erewa who confirmed this in a WhatsApp message to The Eagle Online said “KD has been released. “His legal team will however report back to the police tomorrow while he will subsequently return back to Nigeria.” Kizz Daniel was arrested following his failure to perform at a concert in Tanzania, The Buga crooner, who had already been…

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Nigeria’s Foremost Geographer, Prof Akin Mabogunje, Is Dead

Gbenga Adeoti

How I knew the foremost scholar will die since two months ago, Ms Funke Aboyade SAN   Nigeria’s foremost geographer, Prof Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje is dead. Prof Mabogunje reportedly died on Thursday August 4, 2022. He was 90 years old. His death was confirmed by Ms Funke Aboyade SAN, daughter of Mabogunje’s bossom friend, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, a former Vice Chancellor, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. READ ALSO: Nigeria Confirms 157 Cases Of Monkeypox No BSc, No MSc, Nigerian HND Holder Gets 7 US Varsities’…

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Smiling Dariye, Nyame, Finally Leave Prison Four Months After Buhari’s Pardon

Abibat Babalola

Some four months after being benefitting from President Muhammadu Buhari’s comprehensive pardon early in the year, former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and a former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, have finally emerged from behind the prison walls, on Monday, as free men. Pictures of the smiling ex-convicts, who were jailed for various acts of corruption including stealing from the public purse, but received state pardons from Buhari, a well criticised development from the public, emerging from the prison gates and entering exotic vehicles, have made it in…

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2022 WASSCE Result Officially Released

Abibat Babalola

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Monday released the results of school candidates, who sat for the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations(WASSCE). Speaking at a briefing on Monday, WAEC’s Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, noted that the results were released 45 days after the last paper. READ ALSO: Nigeria Confirms 157 Cases Of Monkeypox JUST IN: Popular Nigerian Singer, Kizz Daniel, Arrested In Tanzania BREAKING:Buhari Makes U-Turn, Consents To ExxonMobil/Seplat $1.6bn Deal Nigerian Final-Year Varsity Student Commits Suicide The examination held for six weeks from May…

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Nigeria Confirms 157 Cases Of Monkeypox

Ganiyu Amodu

Ondo – 13, Plateau – 8, Lagos – 6, Adamawa – 4, Abia – 3, Borno – 3, and others. Here is the full list of 19 states and number of Monkeypox cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 157 monkeypox cases across the country from January 1st to July 31st, 2022. According to the latest report, the Monkeypox virus has been recorded across 26 states in Nigeria since January 2022. READ ALSO: WHO Declares Monkeypox Outbreak ‘Global Health Emergency ’ WHO Calls Emergency Meeting As Monkeypox…

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Nigeria’s Top Energy Journos’ Group Rallies Sylva, Kyari, Wabote For Confab

ADEOLA YUSUF

Minister, NNPC CEO, NCDMB boss and others to Brainstorm on Future of Nigeria Oil Industry amid Energy Transition at the NAEC Conference   The Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, and the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mallam Mele Kyari, would at the Annual International Conference of Association of Energy Correspondents of Nigeria (NAEC), lead brainstorming sessions on the future of Nigeri’s hydrocarbon sector amid the ongoing energy transition challenge. READ ALSO: BREAKING:Buhari Makes U-Turn, Consents To ExxonMobil/Seplat $1.6bn…

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JUST IN: Popular Nigerian Singer, Kizz Daniel, Arrested In Tanzania

Abibat Babalola

In a video posted online, the “Buga” crooner could be seen being escorted from his hotel by security operatives into the back of a pickup truck Popular Nigerian singer, Kizz Daniel has reportedly been arrested in Tanzania over his failure to perform at a show he was paid for. Platforms Africa gathered through different media reports that the singer “blatantly refused” to perform due to unavailability of his clothes he allegedly forgot in Uganda. In a video posted online, the “Buga” crooner could be seen being escorted from his hotel…

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BREAKING:Buhari Makes U-Turn, Consents To ExxonMobil/Seplat $1.6bn Deal

ADEOLA YUSUF

Why Buhari overrode NNPC’s Objection to do what he did – Femi Adesina About three months after he declined consent, President Muhammadu Buhari. On Monday, made a U-Turn as he consented to the acquisition of Exxon Mobil’s $1.6 billion assets by Seplat Energy Offshore Limited. He did that in his capacity as Minister of Petroleum Resources, and in consonance with the country’s drive for Foreign Direct Investment in the energy sector, Platforms Africa has, in an exclusive story on May 17, 2022, reported that the President refused to approve the…

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Abuja Court Fixes Sept. 7 For Tinubu’s Disqualification Suit Hearing

Abibat Babalola

The Federal High Court Abuja has fixed September 7, for the hearing of a legal suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting the 2023 elections for allegedly presenting forged certificate. Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the hearing, just as it granted an ex-parte order for substituted service on Tinubu who had invaded personal service of court processes. The Plaintiffs, who are four chieftains of the APC are praying the court for an order disqualifying Tinubu from contesting or participating in…

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