Day: March 16, 2025

‘56-Year Wait,’ Newcastle Defeat Liverpool 2-1 To Win Carabao Cup

Ganiyu Amodu

Newcastle United have ended their 56-year wait for a trophy, beating Liverpool 2-1 at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final. Dan Burn and Alexander Isak got the goals in a brilliant performance from Eddie Howe’s men, who held on for victory despite Federico Chiesa’s late strike. Burn’s header, on the stroke of half-time, was superb and an opener that was richly deserved after a first half dominated by Newcastle. That lead was soon doubled after the break, Isak sweeping past Caoimhin Kelleher from Jacob Murphy’s knock-down. ‘For Two Months,’ Lagos…

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‘For Two Months,’ Lagos To Shut Marina-CMS Bridge + DETAILS

Abibat Babalola

Lagos State Government will shut and divert traffic for the emergency repairs of the Independence/Mekwen Bridge (inbound Marina/CMS route) for two months. Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, the State Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, said the emergency repair of the bridge is scheduled from Wednesday, March 19 19, to Monday, May 26, 2025. He said during the repairs, the section of the road from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) through Bonny Camp Bridge down to Independence Bridge will be closed to vehicular movement. READ ALSO: Ex-England…

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Ex-England Player Fashanu Sues Police After Arrest In Nigeria

Ganiyu Amodu

John Fashanu is on police bail after being arrested over a land dispute. The former footballer and TV host, 62, is suspected of criminal conspiracy, threat to life, intimidation, trespass, and obtaining by false pretence in Nigeria where he now lives. Fashanu denies the claims and is suing police for £100,000 compensation. He accuses them of violating his rights by wrongly arresting him, his wife Vivian and his lawyer Chinyere Chigbu over what he says is a civil dispute involving land. The drama began when a group of investors apparently…

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TotalEnergies Probed Over Mozambique Attack

Ganiyu Amodu

French prosecutors have opened a formal manslaughter investigation into energy giant TotalEnergies over its alleged role in a deadly jihadist attack in northern Mozambique in 2021. The probe follows legal complaints from survivors and relatives of victims, who accuse the company of failing to protect subcontractors working near its major gas project at the time. The news was first reported by AFP. The investigation was officially launched on Friday by prosecutors in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. TotalEnergies is being probed for involuntary manslaughter and failure to assist persons…

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Corps Member In Trouble For Calling Tinubu ‘Terrible President’

Ganiyu Amodu

. As video where the Lagos corper, Ushie Uguamaye, also described Lagos as a “smelling state,” goes viral   A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member currently serving in Lagos State has publicly expressed her distress after receiving a threat from the NYSC authorities. The threat came in response to a social media post where she voiced her frustration about the escalating prices of goods across the country. In an emotional video posted on TikTok under the username @talktoraye , the Corps member broke down in tears as she described…

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‘London Derby,’ How Arsenal Defeated Chelsea 1-0

Ganiyu Amodu

Mikel Merino scored the only goal of the game as Arsenal beat Chelsea to move 12 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool. Both of these sides came into the match without their first-choice striker, with Kai Havertz ruled out for the season with a hamstring injury for Arsenal and Nicolas Jackson missing for Chelsea. Chelsea were also without their most important player in Cole Palmer, who was out of the squad with an injury, and it was the first time the Blues have to had to play without him since…

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They’re Planning to Arrest Me – Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Raises Alarm

Abibat Babalola

    “How I was rescued by parliamentarians from other countries and the security after the Senate President Akpabio sent three staff headed by the Chargè D’Affairs of the Nigerian embassy in New York to evacuate me from the United Nations premises right after my speech.”   Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has alleged that Nigerian security officials are planning to arrest her upon her return to Abuja, the country’s seat of power. Mrs. Akpoti-Uduaghan claimed the move is linked to her participation in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in…

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Adeola Yusuf: A Profile of Excellence In 600 Words

Damilola Olonade

    Adeola Yusuf, Team Lead of Platforms Africa – a leading media group in the continent – is a highly cerebral development journalist with local, continental and global laurels and recognitions to show for it. Arguably one of the most decorated energy journalists in the world, Adeola Yusuf, a fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation Scheme on illicit Finance Reporting in Africa, has won over seven nominations as the Energy Reporter of the Year Award by the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA), going home with the gongs for the Year…

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What ND Western, Partners’ Completion of SPDC’s $2.4 Bn Acquisition Means For Nigeria – Kalejaiye

ADEOLA YUSUF

      More facts have emerged on the completion of historic acquisition of pioneer oil and gas firm in Nigeria, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). Platforms Africa has, in an exclusive story, earlier reported the re-christening of SPDC, a company established in 1979, after the Renaissance Africa Energy Company (RAEC) finalised the deal. Chief Executive Officer of ND Western Limited, Mr. Lanre Kalejaiye told Platforms Africa in a statement at the weekend that that $2.4 billion “landmark acquisition marks a significant milestone in Nigeria’s energy sector.” Kalejaiye’s Company, ND…

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His Fortune, Her stress, By Funke Egbemode

Funke Egbemode

  “The politician’s wife. She is the envy of many women. But there is the private pain. Her husband is hardly ever available even when he is sitting right beside her. His libido is down because he is preoccupied, he says, but she believes it is because he is servicing many websites outside.”     Sometimes a woman finds herself at a destination she did not plan for, a place where she neither bargained for nor boarded a bus or plane to. She just wakes up and finds herself there,…

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