Day: January 20, 2023

Wabote Emerges Leadership Local Content champion Of The Year

ADEOLA YUSUF

NCI fund the most performing funding scheme SIMBI Kesiye Wabote, executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has been selected as the recipient of the Leadership Local Content Champion of the Year Award by the Board of Editors of the Leadership Group Limited. The award will be conferred on the him  at the 14th edition of the Leadership Conference and Awards scheduled for Tuesday, January 31, in Abuja. The event is expected to be chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the guest speaker is Uhuru Kenyatta, the immediate past…

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Why Nigerians Are Suffering Fresh Fuel Crisis – Major Marketers

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Platforms Africa’s investigative report in which some Nigerians queried alleged conspiracy of silence by the media over the fresh fuel crisis has elicited widespread reactions with some major media now feasting on the story   The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) on Ftiday evening blamed shortage and high (US Dollar) costs of daughter vessels for ferrying product from mother vessels to depots along the coast for the fresh crisis rocking the Nigeria’s downstream oil sub-sector. Platforms Africa has exclusively reported the fresh crisis on Wednesday, January 18,…

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Robbers Injure Scores, Rape Ladies In UNIZIK Hostels

Ganiyu Amodu

No fewer than 17 students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State sustained varying degrees of injury while unconfirmed number of female students were raped during a midnight robbery attack in the off-campus hostels. A gang of suspected armed robbers, numbering about twenty were said to have raided scores of the hostels located along Ifite road, Awka. The Nation gathered that the robbers who stormed the area at about 12.30 pm on Thursday, shot sporadically, robbing and raping girls for hours. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Census To Hold March 29…

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How Nigerian 5-Day Population Census’ll Gulp N40bn

Abibat Babalola

Africa’s most populous nation holds census from March 29 to April 2   The 2023 national population and housing census will hold from March 29 to April 1, 2023. The Chairman of the National Population Council Chairman, National Population Commission, Nasir Kwarra, disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Friday shortly after an audience with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. “By March 29 to April 2, our staff will be in the field enumerating people,” said Kwarra. According to him, the technological…

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Just in: Gunmen Abduct Nigerian School Pupils

Abibat Babalola

Unknown gunmen on Friday stormed LGEA primary school Alwaza in Doma LGA of Nasarawa State and abducted scores of school pupils in the area. The abductors who whisked away unspecified number of primary school pupils are said to have laid siege around the school while the children were going to school. It was not clear the whereabouts of the school pupils as at the time of filling this report READ ALSO: Outrage As Lagos Court Sentences Vulcaniser To Death For Stealing N57,000 Funke Akindele’s Ex-husband, JJC Skillz Returns To Islam…

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