April 25, 2023 – Platformsafrica

WhatsApp To Support Multiple Phones On One Account

April 25, 2023 ADEOLA YUSUF

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new feature for WhatsApp that will allow users to log into the same account on up to four phones. Platfoms Africa reports that Zuckerberg made the announcement in a post on his Facebook page. The feature, which was announced on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, aims to make it easier for users to switch between devices without having to constantly log in and out of their accounts. READ ALSO: To Save Sudan, These Four ‘Unseen Hands’ Must be Appeased Singer R. Kelly To Serve…

To Save Sudan, These Four ‘Unseen Hands’ Must be Appeased

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 Nurudeen Oyewole

“Like the African adage says: where greed meets greed, mutual suspicion thrives,” Platforms Africa’s Editor, foreign affairs, Nurudeen Oyewole, writes on why so little should be expected from latest ceasefire in Sudan After repeatedly failing ceasefires, the two warring factions in the crisis that has engulfed Sudan, the army and its rival – the paramilitary forces otherwise known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a 72-hours tentative ceasefire on Monday, April 24, ten days after the fighting broke out. The ceasefire which was announced by the United…

Singer R. Kelly To Serve 30-Year Jail Term In North Carolina Prison

April 25, 2023 Ganiyu Amodu

RnB singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has been moved to a correctional centre located in North Carolina, the United States of America, where he is expected to serve his 30-year prison sentence in connection with multiple sexual offences. He was moved to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Caroline Wednesday last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons announced. R. Kelly, in February 2023, was sentenced to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal…

BREAKING: 80 Year-Old US President Biden Announces Re-Election Bid

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 Ganiyu Amodu

The United States President, Joe Biden, has announced that he will be running for re-election as president of the US in 2024. He marked his 80 years birthday last November having being born on November 20, 1942. This is as he said the “battle for the soul of the nation isn’t yet complete” in his new 2024 Launch video Tuesday morning. READ ALSO: Eight States Got zero Investment In Four Years – Report Kogi State Governorship: Why Aggrieved APC Members Must Unite Behind Hon. Ahmed Usman-Ododo’s Candidacy Breaking: Nigeria’s Iconic…

Eight States Got zero Investment In Four Years – Report

April 25, 2023 Abibat Babalola

At least eight states failed to attract any foreign investments but piled up N194.09bn debt between 2019 and 2022, according to findings by The PUNCH. Data from the Capital Importation reports of the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that Bayelsa, Gombe, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara did not attract any foreign investments to their states. However, data from the Subnational Debt reports of the Debt Management Office showed that these states had a combined debt of N710.38bn in 2019. By 2022, the combined debt of these eight states had…

Kogi State Governorship: Why Aggrieved APC Members Must Unite Behind Hon. Ahmed Usman-Ododo’s Candidacy

April 25, 2023 Abibat Babalola

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been the dominant force in Nigerian politics since its formation in 2013. The party’s victory in the 2015 presidential election, as well as winning the majority of legislative seats in the National and State Assemblies, and again in the 2019 General Election, proves its dominance. However, the unity of purpose that brought together the members of the party in achieving this feat has fragmented in Kogi State with the outcome of the recently concluded gubernatorial primary election. Hon. Ahmed Usman-Ododo, a former Auditor-General…

Breaking: Nigeria’s Iconic Journalist, Peter Enahoro, Is Dead

April 25, 2023 Abibat Babalola

One of Nigeria’s iconic journalists, Peter Enahoro, popularly known as Peter Pan, is dead. According to available information, Enahoro, born January 21, 1935, died in London, United Kingdom on Sunday. READ ALSO: 34 Days Away, 34 Days To Inauguration, Tinubu Lands In Nigeria Abducted Kogi Monarch Dies In Kidnapper’s Den Three Dead As Indigenes Clash With Hausa Youths In Abuja The 88-year-old journalist, author, businessman and publisher was known by the pen name Peter Pan because of his popular column in New African magazine.