Day: January 26, 2024

Lagos Church GO Gets Life Jail For Raping Member

Ganiyu Amodu

An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court sitting on Friday sentenced Bishop Feyi Daniels to life imprisonment for raping his church member. Bishop Daniels, the founder of I Reign Christian Ministry, was also handed three years imprisonment for the offense of sexual assault. Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) in a statement on Friday said the two sentences are to run concurrently. Daniel’s name will also be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register as maintained by Lagos State. The cleric was arraigned by the Lagos state government…

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BREAKING: Private Jet Crash-lands In Ibadan

ADEOLA YUSUF

A private jet with 10 persons onboard has reportedly crash-landed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The jet was said to have crash-landed on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria have been deployed to the scene. Details later…

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Nigeria Gives Priority To Gas Production, Commercialisation, Industrialisation Projects – Ekpo

Ganiyu Amodu

Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo on Friday met with a delegation of promoters and top officials of the Brass Petrochemical and Gas Project to be located in Bayelsa State. The team was led by its Managing Director, Chief Ben Okoye and the Chief Gas and Power Investment Officer of NNPC Ltd., Dr. Salihu Jamari. A statement by the Minister’s spokesman, Louis Ibah, quoted Ekpo during the meeting as restating the commitment of the Federal Government in supporting private sector investments geared at unlocking the gas…

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72-Year-Old Osunbor Picks Gov Nomination Forms, Says Age No Barrier

Abibat Babalola

Former Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, on Thursday, said he was not too old to clinch the All Progressives Congress  ticket in the race to choose a candidate ahead of the state governorship election. While challenging his critics and political opponents to a racing contest, the 72-year-old politician expressed conviction that age won’t be a stumbling block to his ambition to return to the State House 16 years after his exit. Osunbor gave the challenge when he turned up at the party secretariat in Abuja to procure the N50m…

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N55m Donation: Police Arrest Mr. Ibu’s Son, Daughter For Fraud

Abibat Babalola

The Nigerian Police, through its Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has arrested  Oyeabuchi Okafor and Jasmine Okekeagwu for allegedly conspiring and defrauding Mr. John  Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu, of N55 million. In a press statement on Thursday, the FCID disclosed that they acted on a petition from Diamond Waves Law on behalf of Mr. Ibu’s wife, Stella, alleging that the actor’s sons, Onyeabuchi and Valentine Okafor, along with his adopted daughter, Jasmine Okekeagwu, conspired to defraud Mr. Ibu. READ ALSO: How Family Drown…

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How Family Drown 5 Year-Old Cancer Patient In River

Abibat Babalola

Tragedy struck in India when a five-year-old boy, diagnosed with terminal cancer, was drowned as his family tried to cure him with water from the River Ganges, Daily Mail reports Thursday. According to the report, the child died after being held under water for too long in the river. The family had reportedly travelled from their home in Delhi to Haridwar on Tuesday to perform the ceremony and pray for the unnamed victim. Their taxi driver said the child was accompanied by his parents and a female relative identified as…

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Why We Rejected Planned Sale Of $2.4bn Shell’s Onshore Assets – Oil Workers

Ganiyu Amodu

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has rejected the planned sale of Shell’s onshore assets, claiming the group being speculated to buy up the assets is unknown to it. On January 16, Shell said it would sell its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), for a consideration of $1.3 billion, with buyers making an additional payment of up to $1.1 billion relating to prior receivables at completion. A week later, PENGASSAN issued a statement, saying the purported group is an assemblage…

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Nigerian Govt Hands Over $1.3bn Zungeru Plant To MESL

Ganiyu Amodu

The federal government has handed over the $1.3 billion Zungeru Power Plant to Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited in a move to stabilise the national grid and increase it to 13,000 megawatts. The grid-connected electricity is currently 12,200 megawatts and the new development will increase the total number of power plants on the grid to 27. Zungeru with 700mw capacity is approximately $1.3 billion, and reportedly, the largest power project completed in Nigeria over the past decade. Additionally, it stands as one of the most significant power ventures in Africa to…

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How 90 Lecturers Benefited From Our Exchange Programme – TotalEnergies, NNPCL

Ganiyu Amodu

Over 90 lecturers from Nigerian universities have so far participated and benefited from the TotalEnergies’ Empowering The Teachers (ETT) fellowship programme being undertaken in collaboration with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States. The ETT fellowship programme launched in 2013, was aimed to further improve the quality of teaching and learning of science and engineering in Nigerian universities through exposing the participants to the innovative and cutting-edge teaching methods used at the MIT to enable them mould students into industry-ready products.…

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Lady Breaks 65 Year-Old NSE Record As First Female President

Ganiyu Amodu

Madam President: What to know about Margaret Oguntala, first female topmost executive in the Nigerian Society of Engineers’ history   The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has elected Margaret Oguntala as the new president of the association. According to a statement obtained by Platforms Africa, NSE said Oguntala is the first female president of the association in its 65-year existence. Oguntala will take over from Tasiu Sa’ad Gidari-Wudil, the outgoing president of NSE. “It’s a new dawn in the history of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, as the incumbent and…

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