Month: January 2023

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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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Outrage As Lagos Court Sentences Vulcaniser To Death For Stealing N57,000

ADEOLA YUSUF

A special offences court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced Chidozie Onyinchiz, a 32-year-old vulcaniser, to death by hanging for robbing a nurse of N57,000. According to NAN, Mojisola Dada, the trial judge, on Tuesday, found Onyinchiz guilty of the three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery, and membership of an unlawful society. During the trial, Afolake Onayinka, the state prosecutor, told the court that Onyinchiz committed the crime with an accomplice still at large on August 12, 2018. Onayinka said Veronica Uwayzor, the complainant, ran into a white garment church…

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Funke Akindele’s Ex-husband, JJC Skillz: Why I Reverted To Islam

ADEOLA YUSUF

Abdulrasheed Bello, award-winning Nigerian songwriter, rapper, filmmaker and former husband to Nollywood star Funke Akindele, said he has reverted to Islam, his former religion. The singer made this known in a series of posts on his verified Instagram account on Friday, January 13, 2023. Bello said he was originally born in Islam but he never practised it as he followed the faith of his mum. He further stated that he was lost before but he is now found. “I was lost but now I’m found O Allah, I ask You…

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BREAKING: Explosion Rocks APC Rally In Oil-Rich Rivers State

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Three politicians confirmed to have been badly injured. Headcount begins to ascertain fatality and/or casualty figures” An explosion has rocked the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in oil-rich Rivers State. The explosion which broke out at the Rumuwoji Playground in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Thursday, rocked the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC. It was gathered that at least three persons were seriously injured in the unfortunate incident. According to reports, two of the victims are women, all of whom were rushed…

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Lagos Declares Tuesday Jan. 24 To Friday 27 Work-Free Days

ADEOLA YUSUF

Full statement by Head of Service on why Lagos civil servants shouldn’t work for four days   The Lagos State Government has declared Tuesday, 24th January to Friday, 27th January as work-free days. The holiday is for public servants in the state to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) at their respective local government/local council development areas in the state. READ ALSO Pele Named Secret Daughter In His Will 17 Yrs After She Died Heartbroken YAKUTSK: The World’s Coldest City Is Currently At -50 Degrees Celsius + PHOTOS Policewoman Sleeps…

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Celebrity Tortoise: Meet Bertie, Guinness Record Holder For World Fastest Tortoise

ADEOLA YUSUF

Called “Usain Bolt Of Tortoises”…. For a South African leopard tortoise, ‘Bertie’ is really fast. At his home in Adventure Valley, a family adventure park in Brasside, Durham, UK, Bertie sprinted over a 5.48 m course set at a gradient of 1:12 in a speedy 19.59 seconds, consequently winning his title as the Fastest tortoise in the world. READ ALSO: NCC renews MoU with Lottery Commission Petrol Hits N400 Per Litre In Lagos, Nigerians Query ‘Media Silence’ Ukraine’s Interior Minister, 17 Others Die In Helicopter Crash Digital Literacy: Polaris Bank…

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NCC renews MoU with Lottery Commission

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Wednesday in Abuja, signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding with the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, NLRC, with provisions to deter unapproved lottery and gaming practices on telecommunications platforms through information and intelligence sharing. Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta noted that the MoU, which will impact the gaming industry, is in sync with the Commission’s Strategic Vision Plan (SVP) and is in a bid to promote fair practices in the industry for the protection of telecommunications consumers in relation to lottery and gaming…

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