July 2024 – Page 3 – Platformsafrica

Don’t Attack Any Protesters – Lagos CP Tells Residents

July 28, 2024 Abibat Babalola

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, has advised state residents against attacking protesters. Fayoade advised while addressing traditional rulers and community leaders in Eti-Osa, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe and Lagos Island local government areas during a town hall meeting on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there have been reports of a planned nationwide protest by some Nigerians over hardship in the country. READ ALSO: PowerUp Nigeria Calls For Data Sharing To Drive Nigeria’s Energy Transition, Green Funding Porn, Betting Sites Top List Of Most…

‘Nigerians Visit Porn, Betting Sites 162 Million Times In 30 Days’

July 28, 2024July 29, 2024 Abibat Babalola

The country is going through economic hardship but data from StatiSense shows the citizens used mobile data to watch porn more in June 2024 StatiSense, a global data and business intelligence platform, has disclosed the most visited website on mobile by Nigerians in June 2024, with porn sites featuring prominently on the list. According to the report, Nigerian mobile users made over 162 million visits to porn and betting websites in June 2024. The platform’s latest data shows a significant portion of Nigerians visited adult content and gambling…

Dangote: End of the Road for a Monopolist?, By Soji Adekunmbi

July 27, 2024 ADEOLA YUSUF

In the last one month, easily one of the most discussed issues in Nigeria is the allegation by the Dangote Refinery accusing the International Oil Companies (IOCs) of frustrating its operations by refusing to sell crude to it. In a statement released in July, which later followed up by Alhaji Aliko Dangote himself, the company said the IOCs preferred to sell their crude to Asian countries or ask them to buy from the foreign subsidiaries instead of giving them priority as directed by Nigeria’s upstream regulatory body, the National Upstream…

1.3m People Infected With HIV In 2023

July 27, 2024 ADEOLA YUSUF

An estimated 1.3 million people became infected with HIV in 2023, three times more than the target of fewer than 370,000 by 2025. While there has been marked progress in sub-Saharan Africa, for the first time, in 2023 more than half of the new HIV infections occurred outside of sub-Saharan Africa, a report released on Wednesday said. The report by the Global HIV Prevention Coalition (GBC), said the rising new HIV infections are evident in several countries, particularly in countries where key populations including men who have sex with men,…

NNPC’s Petrol Import From Malta Jumps 43 Times to $2.08bn

July 26, 2024 ADEOLA YUSUF

Revelation came days after Aliko Dangote accused officials of NNPC of owning and running a blending plant in Malta, an accusation Mele kyari denied Nigeria’s importation of petroleum from Malta has skyrocketed to 43 folds, amounting to $2.08 billion in 2023. A data sourced from Trade Map, a global database on international trade statistics, showed Nigeria imported petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals worth $2.8 billion in 2023, a 342 percent increase from $47.5 million as of 2013. This revelation contained in a reoort by…

I Have No Cabal Or Sponsors To Compesate – Tinubu

July 26, 2024 Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has allayed fears of manipulation by any interest group in the ongoing economic reforms, saying his campaign was self-sponsored, without strings, or indebtedness to any individual or institution. The President, who received a delegation of Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Bala Lau, at the State House on Thursday, said his victory at the polls was purely by divine intervention, careful planning, and diligence in getting support from Nigerians. “I have no cabal. I have no sponsors. The money I spent on the elections was my personal fortune.…

Iwuanyanwu, Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General Is Dead

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Precious Ibekwe

President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Champion Newspaper publisher, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, is dead. He died on Thursday morning at about 11.00 am at 82 years Iwuanyanwu’s first daughter, Dr. Nwadiuto Iheakanwa, confirmed his passage to TheNiche. A release by his son, Jide Iwuanyanwu on behalf of the family, further stated that the Ohanaeze chieftain died after a brief illness. The release stated; “The Iwuanyanwu family of Umuohii Atta, in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State announces the demise of our Patriach Engr Chief Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu-Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo. Chief…

I’ve Aborted Thrice For My School Principal’ -14-Year-Old Pupil

July 25, 2024 ADEOLA YUSUF

‘ A 14-year-old secondary school student has revealed that she has gotten pregnant and aborted three times for her school principal, who is also a pastor, Adetunji Obatayo. The 14-year-old revealed the sordid details about the 55-year-old man to a Magistrates’ Family Court in Akure, Ondo State. She said: “Four years ago, my parents released me to live with a pastor due to his desire to train me. “On my first day in his house, he forcefully had sexual intercourse with me and told me not to tell anyone about…

How Three Workers Were Killed in Lagos Building Collapse

July 25, 2024 Gbenga Adeoti

“Time, location,’ LASEMA gives details of the latest fatality in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre A building collapse in the Arowojobe Estate area of Lagos has claimed the lives of three construction workers. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed the incident on Thursday, July 25th, 2024. The collapse occurred at around 3:49 am at No. 13, Wilson Mba Street. LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, stated, “The agency received a distress call regarding a collapsed building at the above address. Released In 1983, Succeeds In 2024, ‘Gwo gwo…