Month: April 2023

BREAKING: Prince Lukman Adelodu Gbadegesin Is New Alaafin of Oyo +PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How the ex-aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo was announced Alaafin-elect less than 24 hours after his birthday   One year after the demise of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Oba in Council has announced Prince Lukman Adelodu Gbadegesin Agunloye as the new Kabiyesi elect and Alaafin for Oyo town It was ten princes who came out from his Ladigbolu  family to fight for the position. His name was in number eight. He had worked with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as Personal Assistant when he was the President of the Federal…

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Nigeria’s Ex-Labour Minister, Musa Gwadabe, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

He died in Kano. Daughter of the 86 year-old pioneer member of PDP gives details   A former Minister of Labour and Productivity, and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Musa Gwadabe, is dead. Gwadabe died Wednesday morning (today) at the age of 86 at a Kano hospital after a prolonged illness. READ ALSO: WhatsApp To Support Multiple Phones On One Account To Save Sudan, These Four ‘Unseen Hands’ Must be Appeased 143 Entries In Race For $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature BREAKING: 80 Year-Old US President…

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143 Entries In Race For $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

ADEOLA YUSUF

NLNG Sponsored Prize Records 61% Increase in Drama Cycle Entries     The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), has recorded a remarkable 61% increase in entries for Drama cycle, with 143 entries received for the 2023 edition against 89 entries in the last Drama cycle in 2018. The entrants will compete for a top prize of $100,000. This was revealed today at a ceremony in Lagos to hand over the entries to judges for the commencement of the adjudication process. NLNG, represented by its General…

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Sahara Group Advocates Backward Integration To Bolster Energy Sector Sustainability

ADEOLA YUSUF

Deploying seamless backward integration in the energy sector will foster growth and sustainability enabled by improved efficiencies, innovation, upgrade in local expertise and participation, and the collaboration of host communities in operations across the value chain, Ejiro Gray, Director, Governance and Sustainability has said. Gray who addressed journalists at the 6th Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) in Abuja said building local capacity for extraction and processing of natural resources facilitates job creation and economic growth. She also joined other panelists that discussed “Local Content Investment and Sustainable Energy Future” at…

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Wrong Impression, NCC Clears Air On Report It Incurred N17bn Deficit in 2021 Budget

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has cleared the air on a report, which said that it Incurred N17 billion deficit in the 2021 budget, describing the story as giving a wrong impression.       Here, below is the full statement from the Commission. Re: NCC Incurs Deficit in 2021 Budget The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has been drawn to an online publication with a headline titled: “NCC Incurs a Deficit of N17bn, Spending N35.2bn on Personnel, Consultancy Fees”. The Commission is concerned with the inability of…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

“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…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

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…

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Eight States Got zero Investment In Four Years – Report

ADEOLA YUSUF

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…

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