Month: June 2023

Why Tinubu Must Run Oil, Extractive Industries Transparently – CISLAC

ADEOLA YUSUF

The oil and other extractive industries in Nigeria must be run transparently by President Bola Tinubu if he wants to truly move the country’s economy forward. Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Awwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani, who said this in opening remarks at the CSO Media Training in Lagos, tasked the president to make clear and public his anti-corruption agenda. Platforms Africa reports that the two-day training organised by accountability in Extractives Sector (AES),. centred on the “use of beneficial ownership information to improve natural resource governance…

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Electricity To Cost Between N150 To N300 Per Kilowatts Hour

ADEOLA YUSUF

…MAN Says Cost of Production will Soar … will not translate to improved supply Nigerians will start to pay between N150 to N300 per kilowatts hour of electricity as from July 1st, 2023. This is even as the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria MAN has enumerated the impacts of the proposed 40 percent tariff increase on Nigerians if it is implemented. At the moment, Band C which presently goes for about N40 Per Killowatts Hour may be increased to about N100 Per Killowatts Hour. While Band A which is presently at…

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Why Too Much Sperm Is Harmful To The Body

Abibat Babalola

The sperm plays a very vital role in sexual intercourse and especially procreation among living things, particularly among human beings and animals. It is usually a small, compact cell, highly specialized for the task of fertilizing an egg. According to Encyclopedia Britannica (updated on 12 March, 2023), sperm, also called spermatozoon (plural spermatozoa) is the male reproductive cell, produced by most animals [and humans]. The sperm unites with (fertilizes) an ovum (egg) of the female to produce a new offspring. It was further stated in https://study.com that the sperm cell provides half of the…

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NDLEA Arrests Two Ghanaians, 11 Others For Drug Trafficking

Abibat Babalola

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Sunday, confirmed the arrest of two Ghanaians, Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana, and 11 other suspects for drug-related offences in different parts of the country. The agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, confirmed the development, said officials of the agency intercepted two imported consignments of a strong strain of cannabis known as loud, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the in the Lekki area of Lagos State. He also revealed that based on credible intelligence,…

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Top Nigerian Civil Servants Jittery As Govt Orders Compulsory Exams

Abibat Babalola

No one escapes this: Details of the must-write exams for all Directors-General, Executive Secretaries, and Heads of Agencies + FULL MEMO         The Nigerian Government has approved compulsory examination for top echelon of the federal public service in 2023. Platforms Africa reports that this was contained in a circular signed by the Permanent Secretary, Management Career Service, Dr Marcus Ogunbiyi in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation. This, Platforms Africa gathered has sent jitters down the spines of some top Civil servants. “When…

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Titanic’s Crash and Anger of Olokun, the Sea Goddess, By Festus Adedayo

ADEOLA YUSUF

A well-researched article that exposed the tough reality and secret World of the Ocean The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible vessel with five passengers on board, its wreckage was eventually found last Thursday. The five occupants on board were killed in the process. The search had been spearheaded by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship. The five were on a voyage to see the century-old wreckage of the famous Titanic by the time this catastrophic implosion…

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Hajj 2023: Six Nigerian Pilgrims Die In Saudi Arabia

Ganiyu Amodu

Six Nigerian pilgrims participating in the 2023 Hajj have died in the course of the exercise, an official of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has disclosed. The head of the NAHCON 2023 Hajj medical team, Usman Galadima, disclosed this on Saturday during a meeting of the commission in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Mr Galadima, in his presentation, said the delegations from Osun and Kaduna states for the 2023 Hajj recorded two deaths each, while Plateau State recorded one. READ ALSO: JAMB Fixes Cut-Off Marks for 2023 Admissions BREAKING: Renowned…

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JAMB Fixes Cut-Off Marks for 2023 Admissions

Abibat Babalola

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and tertiary education stakeholders have approved “the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS),” otherwise known as the cut-off mark for 2023 admission into the nation’s universities. The benchmarks of 140 for universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education were arrived at during the 2023 annual policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, which was held in Abuja on Saturday. The policy meeting, chaired by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew Adejoh, took the decision following recommendations by the heads of institutions.…

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BREAKING: Renowned Communication Professor, Lai Oso, Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

▪️ Three Years To Retirement: “How the LASU Professor, mentor to many journalists and communication scholars globally died on Ore-Sagamu expressway on his way from Delta State University.” ▪️ “A huge Library of communication is set ablaze,” Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, other students pen emotional tributes for late communication teacher       A renowned Nigerian Professor of communication, Lai Oso, is dead, Platforms Africa reports. Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies FCMS, Lagos State University, Professor Sunday Alawode, who confirmed this in a statement obtained…

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Banky W To Address Church Congregation Amidst Alleged Cheating Scandal

Abibat Babalola

Bankole Wellington, aka Banky W, a Nigerian singer, actor, politician, and pastor at the Waterbrooks church, Lagos, alongside Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo’s husband, Pastor Blessed, is set to address the church congregation on Sunday, June 25, 2023. Sharing a Church Poster on his Instagram page hours ago about the church program which deals with overcoming pornography, Banky W wrote “Don’t miss church tomorrow” “It is Series Finale. Glad to be wrapping up “The Road to Freedom” series with @bankywellington this Sunday. Chains of Pornography will be broken by the word.…

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