Day: November 7, 2023

Lagos Records 1,211 Disasters This Year

Ganiyu Amodu

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it has recorded an overall total of 1,211 incidents so far this year 2023, in performing it’s statutory responsibilities of disaster risk reduction, rescues and recoveries in the state, Head, Public Affairs Unit-LASEMA, Okunbor Nosa, in the October incident statistics made available to Platforms Africa, said about 145 of the incidents were attended to in the month of October, 2023. He stated: “Out of the 145 incidents attended in October, Truck/Tanker category was responsible for 64 incidents, comprising of 46 truck/tanker accidents,…

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Nigerian Government Asks Universities, Others To Remit 40% Revenue

Ganiyu Amodu

The federal government has begun implementation of a 40 percent automatic deduction from internally generated revenues of federal universities and other partially-funded institutions, Leadership reports. The policy of 40 percent auto-deduction of gross IGR is in line with the Finance Circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS/IGR/CRF/12/2021 dated December 20, 2021. The circular limits the annual budgetary expenditure from IGR of the partially funded federal government. The information was contained in a letter that was issued by the accountant-general of the federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein, to the universities titled ‘Implementation of 40%…

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Labour Orders Indefinite Shutdown Of Power Supply, Flights

Ganiyu Amodu

“All Public and Private Sector workers are to immediately down tools indefinitely.”   The Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress on Tuesday, ordered a shutdown of electricity and fuel supplies in Imo State following the brutalisation of the National President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, last week, by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force. The Labour Centres also directed aviation workers to ensure that flights into and outside the state are suspended. This is according to one of the decisions taken at the extraordinary National…

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Hilda Baci Dethroned By Irish Chef As Cook-a-thon World Record Holder

Abibat Babalola

Alan Fisher, an Irish chef and restaurant owner based in Japan, has broken two Guinness World Records related to cooking. This was made known in a post shared by the Guinness World Records on their X account on Tuesday. Sharing the news, GWR said, “Nigerian cooking queen Hilda Baci has been dethroned 😳 READ ALSO: Eleventh Hour To Grandest Legacy, Five Banana Peels that Got Netanyahu Crashing (1) Nigeria Owes Us N4.207 Trillion Debts – NNPCL 20 New Roads Tinubu Is Spending N58bn To Construct “Alan Fisher from Ireland cooked…

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Eleventh Hour To Grandest Legacy, Five Banana Peels that Got Netanyahu Crashing (1)

Nurudeen Oyewole

  Benjamin Netanyahu, the 74-year old Israeli Prime Minister is ambitious, strategic and a goal-getter. Yet in his legendary lies his weakness – the insatiable appetite to continuously win. As the Israeli society grapples with the reality of the October 7 attack launched by the Palestinian group – Hamas, with accusing fingers being pointed at the direction of the Prime Minister, Platforms Africa’s Foreign Affairs editor, Nurudeen Oyewole, takes a look at five political blunders turning the once-deified Netanyahu to object of infamy and a potential goner from the seat…

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Nigeria Owes Us N4.207 Trillion Debts – NNPCL

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Says Claim of Unremitted Funds Baseless, Working With NEITI, Others To Reconcile Report   The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has declared that the Federation owed it the sum of N4.207 trillion as net indebtedness. Platforms Africa reports that the company, which said this in a statement signed by Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer, also refuted the claims by a Non-governmental organisation (NGO) that NNPCL did not remit some funds to the Federation acount. READ ALSO: 20 New Roads Tinubu Is Spending N58bn To Construct N4.3bn…

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20 New Roads Tinubu Is Spending N58bn To Construct

Abibat Babalola

Here is the which-takes-what names, regions, locations of new roads, and how much their construction will gulp in the 2023 Supplementary Budget       The government of President Bola Tinubu has budgeted the sum of N58 billion for the construction of twenty (20) new road projects. These, Platforms Africa reports, are under the capital expenditure of the Federal Ministry of Works in the recently approved N2.17 trillion 2023 supplementary budget. READ ALSO: Lagos Slashes Fares By 25% N4.3bn Worth of Nigerian Crude Oil Stolen In 5 Years – NEITI…

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Lagos Slashes Bus, Train Fares By 25%

Abibat Babalola

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has slashed regulated bus and train fares in the state by 25%, effective Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Spokesperson for the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Kolawole Ojelabi, made this known in a statement on Monday. READ ALSO: N4.3bn Worth of Nigerian Crude Oil Stolen In 5 Years – NEITI South Sudan Floods Leave 1.6m Children At Risk Of Hunger – UN NDLEA Arrests Three Blind Men Over Drug Trafficking, Seizes Narcotics Worth N13bn EXPOSED: 7 Common Property Scams by Estate Firms in Lagos According…

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N4.3bn Worth of Nigerian Crude Oil Stolen In 5 Years – NEITI

Abibat Babalola

The Nigerian government has revealed that over N4.3 trillion worth of crude oil was lost to oil theft in 7,143 pipeline vandalism cases within five years. This startling figure was disclosed at the Nigeria International Pipeline Technology and Security Conference in Abuja, highlighting the severe impact of oil theft on the nation’s economy. In a presentation at the conference, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), a government agency, painted a grim picture of the oil theft situation, labeling it a “national emergency.” READ ALSO: South Sudan Floods Leave 1.6m Children At…

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