Month: September 2022

BREAKING: Court Orders ASUU To Call Off Strike

Aliyu Aliyu

The National Industrial Court ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to go back to work. Platforms Africa reports that the Court made the order on Wednesday during the hearing of the suit filled by the government against ASUU. Justice polycap Hamman, delivering ruling on the interlocutory injunction filed by the federal government, restrained ASUU for continuing with the industrial action pending the determination of the suit. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers,…

Read More

Buhari Appoints Salihu Dembos as NTA Director-General

ADEOLA YUSUF

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the appointment is for a tenure of three years in the first instance. READ ALSO: Meet Oluwatoyin Naiwo, New Registrar/Chief Executive of CIPM Married Man Kills Girlfriend For Committing Abortion Without His Consent ASUU Strike: El-Rufai Warns Students Against Protest In Kaduna Until his appointment, Mr. Dembos was the…

Read More

Meet Oluwatoyin Naiwo, New Registrar/Chief Executive of CIPM

Abibat Babalola

A former Director, Strategy, Advocacy & Stakeholder Relations of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) Oluwatoyin Naiwo has been appointed as Registrar and Chief Executive of the Institute. Platforms Africa reports that Naiwo’s appointment takes effect from Monday, September 12, 2022. Her appointment was announced in a statement by the CIPM President, Olusegun Mojeed. READ ALSO: Married Man Kills Girlfriend For Committing Abortion Without His Consent ASUU Strike: El-Rufai Warns Students Against Protest In Kaduna BREAKING: Wike Pulls Group Out Of Atiku’s Campaign How Nigeria’ll Rake In…

Read More

Married Man Kills Girlfriend For Committing Abortion Without His Consent

ADEOLA YUSUF

Court told how the father of two with a wife in Rivers state used rope to allegedly tighten the hands and neck of the girlfriend before strangulating her   A married man, Douglas Tamunokopo, has allegedly murdered his girlfriend, Udo Abigail, in Abuja for daring to abort a pregnancy without his consent. Platforms Africa reports that Tamunokopo has already been arraigned before Justice C.O Agbaza at the FCT High Court for allegedly strangulating the 29 year-old Abigail with a rope in his room. READ ALSO: 20 Yr-Old Man Arrested For…

Read More

ASUU Strike: El-Rufai Warns Students Against Protest In Kaduna

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Such move or plans to block the Kaduna-Abuja road unacceptable”   The Kaduna State Government, on Tuesday, warned groups, individuals or associations against plans to block the Kaduna-Abuja road. There are unconfirmed reports that the Nigerian university students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), may extend their protest to Kaduna, through some of their representatives, by blocking Kaduna-Abuja road over failure of the government to resolve lingering ASUU strike. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Wike’s Group Pulls Out Of Atiku’s Campaign AfDB Adesina, WTO Okonjo-Iweala, Clinton at Roundtable…

Read More

BREAKING: Wike Pulls Group Out Of Atiku’s Campaign

Aliyu Aliyu

How, Why a “tumultous” meeting, which ended in the early hours of Wednesday in Port Harcourt, took the “decisive position” The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) team of Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has withdrawn from the presidential campaign of Atiku Abubakar, the party’s candidate. Platforms Africa gathered that this decision was taken at a meeting in Port Harcourt early on Wednesday morning. Members of the team, according to a source at the meeting, promised not to participate in Atiku’s campaign activities until the removal of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.…

Read More

AfDB Adesina, WTO Okonjo-Iweala, Clinton at Roundtable in New York + PHOTOS

Adesupo Ososanya

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AFDB), on Tuesday, attended a roundtable with Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, two former United States secretaries of state. According to Victor Oladokun, senior advisor to Adesina, the executive roundtable was to discuss “unlocking and realising the benefits of inclusive job growth”. The roundtable was part of a sideline meeting at the 77th United Nations general assembly (UNGA) taking place in New York, Also in attendance were Bill Clinton, former US president, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Read More

How Nigeria’ll Rake In N500Bn From 5G Auction In 2023

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria Communication Commission(NCC) has expressed optimism as it described how the nation will generate over N500 billion as revenue from the auctioning of two 5G spectrums in 2023. Platforms Afruca reports that the Executive Vice-Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, while disclosing this at an interactive meeting on 2023-2025 MTEF-FSP, organised by the Senate Committee in Abuja, said that the commission had already initiated the bidding process for auctioning of the spectrums. READ ALSO: REVEALED: Nigeria, 17 other African Nations are testing 5G – Report NCC ​Remittances To Federation Account…

Read More

20 Yr-Old Man Arrested For Rape, Murder Of Teenage Girl Inside Church

Ganiyu Amodu

A 20-year old suspect, Tosin Kolade, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police command for alleged defilement and murder of a 17-year old girl, Ifeoluwa Apanpa inside the auditorium of a Pentecostal church at Olodo in Egbeda Local Government area of the state. He was paraded before the newsmen by the state Commissioner of Police, Adewale Williams, at the state Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan. The victim was said to be on her way to her church when the suspected rapist under a false pretence sought her assistance in his…

Read More

How Kumuyi’s Arrival Chased Bandits Out Of Niger State – Gov. Bello

Daniel Atori

MINNA: Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello on Tuesday disclosed that the coming of the General Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor Williams F. Kumuyi to the state has chased away all the bandits terrorizing the state. He made this disclosure when Pastor Kumuyi, the Convener, Global Crusade with Kumuyi (GSK) alongside his wife, Pastor Adenike Esther Kumuyi and others paid him a courtesy visit at the State Government House in preparation for Global Crusade with the theme, the God of all possibilities at the Trade Trade Fair Complex,…

Read More