Day: December 3, 2022

Pelé Moved To End-Of-Life Care In Sao Paulo Hospital

Ganiyu Amodu

Brazilian and football icon Pelé has been transferred to palliative care after he stopped responding to chemotherapy. The 82-year-old has been in the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo since Tuesday after his health has deteriorated, after he began suffering symptoms including ‘general swelling’ and ‘heart failure’. His daughter had previously allayed fears that the Brazilian’s condition was serious. However, new reports from Folha have started that his body is no longer responding to the chemotherapy he has been receiving since last September, when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer.…

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Vatsa To Buhari: “Priotize Bida Basin To compensate For Baro Port”

Daniel Atori

MINNA: A Stalwart of the All Progressives Congress APC in Niger State, Jonathan Tsado Vatsa has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make the BIda Basin one of his legacy projects by ensuring that it is drilled before he leaves office in 2023. While speaking to our Correspondent on Saturday, Comrade Jonathan Tsado Vatsa urged President Buhari to look at Niger State with the eye of mercy. It should be recalled that President Buhari about three weeks ago conducted the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kolmani Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 809…

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Niger 2023: LP Governorship Candidate Challenges APC, PDP, Other Guber Candidates To Drug Test

Daniel Atori

MINNA: As political parties prepare for the 2023 Governorship elections, the Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Niger state, Dr Joshua Bawa has challenged other governorship candidates to submit themselves to a drug test to prove to the people that they are not conducting campaigns or holding meetings under the influence of drugs. It should be recalled that the Chairman/Chief Executive, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier-General Buba Marwa had urged political parties to make drug integrity tests part of the screening requirements for aspirants seeking to…

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World AIDS Day: People living With HIV Increase To 36,797 ln Niger

Daniel Atori

… As 2,368 adults, 2 infants test positive in 2022 MINNA: The number of persons living with HIV in Niger state has increased to thirty Six thousand, Seven hundred and Ninety Seven within a period of Nine months. Making this disclosure, the State Commissioner of Health Dr. Makusidi Muhammad said, “between January to September (9 months) this year a total of 2,628 clients tested positive to HIV in the state”. Dr. Makusidi who was represented by the Director, Medical Services and Training, Dr. Baba Uthman said at a press briefing…

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NNPC/CNL $1bn Deal Ups Oil Industry Investment’s Hope

Efe Wellington

The investment that has eluded the Nigerian oil and gas industry for years, thereby affecting crude oil production, may have started trickling– in again, as Chevron Nigeria Limited (“CNL”) and the Nigerian National Corporation NNPC joint venture have confirmed that $1.4 billion has been secured to finance some of their projects. This amount is to be used by the NNPC/CNL JV to fund infill drilling program or projects for the fiscal years 2023-2026 The financing arrangement was executed on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. The Project includes the drilling of 37…

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How $11bn London Trial’ll Expose Nigeria’s Corruption

Ganiyu Amodu

A British lawyer representing Nigeria in a London court case in which $11 billion are at stake said on Friday the trial would reveal corruption “on an industrial scale”, not only of Nigerian officials but also of British lawyers. The case stems from a contract for a gas project awarded by Nigeria in 2010 to a company called Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID). The gas processing facility never materialised, for reasons that are disputed. After years of legal wrangling, a London-based arbitration tribunal said in 2017 that Nigeria had…

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I May Accept If Ooni Wants Me As 7th Wife — Peju Johnson

Gbenga Adeoti

  “I am actually from a royal family in Ile Ife too”   An actress, Peju Johnson, has said that if the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, proposes marriage to her, she might accept it. Recall that within months, the Ooni had recently married six wives in quick succession. READ ALSO: Ooni Marries 6th Wife, Ife Queens Now Half A Dozen Nkechi Blessing Reveals Intention To Be Ooni Of Ife’s Next Wife Why I quitted as Ife Queen, Naomi, 3rd Wife To Divorce Ooni Ogunwusi Speaks Medical Doctor Applies…

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2nd InsurTech Business Series Confab Set to hold in Lagos

Ganiyu Amodu

Grye Limited, the producers and organizers of InsurTech Business Series Podcast and Webinar have announced plans to hold the second edition of its insurance and technology (InsurTech) conference in Nigeria. The 2022 InsurTech Business Series Conference, themed “Redefining the InsurTech Ecosystem in Nigeria,” is set to take place as a hybrid event on December 10th, 2022 at Four Points Hotel, VI Lagos, with the virtual component taking place via LinkedIn and YouTube. READ ALSO United Nations Institute Names Adeola Yusuf Panelist For African IDEP Event Belgian Firm Puts Skulls of…

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Belgian Firm Puts Skulls of Africans Killed In Colonial Era Up For Sale

Aoko Benjamin

Dehumanising and racist: Outcry greeted planned auction of human skulls by Vanderkindere auction house in Brussels and the following happened    An auction house in Belgium has put up three skulls of Africans killed during the colonial period for sale in a move that has attracted global outcry and a withdrawal of the auction. The skulls belong to Africans in what is now the modern Democratic Republic of Congo, the BBC reported on Thursday. The skulls, which belonged to people killed between January 1893 and May 1894, were put up…

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