Month: March 2025

‘In Three Months,’ DisCos Rake In ₦509.84 Billion From Customers

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘Eko (90.00%), Ikeja (82.63%), Others,’ who-collected-what details NERC gives about the 2024 Q4 fiscal The eleven electricity distribution companies in Nigeria raked in N509.84 billion in the last quarter of the year 2024. Platforms Africa reports that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), which declared this in its “Quarterly Report 2024,″ maintained that the development translated to a collection efficiency of 77.44%. The revenue on token and post-paid billing in the three months of October, November and December 2024 is out of the N658.40 billion that was billed to customers…

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EFCC Arrests Two For Hawking Naira Notes In Lagos

ADEOLA YUSUF

Operatives of the Lagos Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in Naira abuse A statement from EFCC says the suspects identified as Adeoti Folake and Adewuyi Modupe were apprehended in Lagos on Friday, March 21, 2025 while allegedly hawking Naira notes. READ ALSO: Why Democracy Failed In Africa- Obasanjo ‘No, No,’ Canada Denies 13,000 Nigerians Refugee Status ‘Sallah Gesture,’ Reps Member Confirms Lawmakers Got $5,000 Each During Rivers Emergency Vote ‘Bear Your Father’s Name,’ Court Orders Woman To…

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Why Democracy Failed In Africa- Obasanjo

ADEOLA YUSUF

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says democracy has failed in Africa, arguing that it is not delivering dividends to the continent. Obasanjo said this in Abuja on Monday during the 60th birthday colloquium of a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Emeka Ihedioha. “If you are talking about democracy failing in Africa, democracy in Africa has failed. And why has it failed? Because in context and content, it is not Africa. It does not have any aspect of our culture, our way of life, what we stand for, what…

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‘No, No,’ Canada Denies 13,000 Nigerians Refugee Status

ADEOLA YUSUF

Over 13,000 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection in Canada from January 2013 to December 2024 were rejected. Data from the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said this figure includes 811 Nigerians whose applications were turned down in 2024. The breakdown of the rejections showed that 127 Nigerian claims were rejected in 2013, 241 in 2014 and 248 in 2015. READ ALSO: Poorly Acted Drama,’ How Nigerian Churches Staged Miracles – Daddy Freeze ‘Sallah Gesture,’ Reps Member Confirms Lawmakers Got $5,000 Each During…

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Poorly Acted Drama,’ How Nigerian Churches Staged Miracles – Daddy Freeze

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Nigerian media personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has expressed skepticism about the authenticity of miracles performed in Nigerian Pentecostal churches. These miracles are, according to him, staged and primarily target individuals who are easily deceived. He argued that while the miracles performed by Jesus in the Bible were verifiable, no Nigerian pastor has ever replicated such miracles on a well-known public figure. Speaking on a recent episode of the Outside The Box podcast, Daddy Freeze stated, “I’m sorry, but I don’t believe in any of the…

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‘Sallah Gesture,’ Reps Member Confirms Lawmakers Got $5,000 Each During Rivers Emergency Vote

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on FCT, Mukhtar Aliyu Betara, has confirmed that he shared $5,000 with members of his committee as a “Sallah gesture” and not as an inducement to support emergency rule in Rivers State. Platforms Africa reports that a Nigerian journalist, Jaafar Jaafar, disclosed this in a post on his X handle. Jaafar said Betara explained this to him after the lawmaker reached out to clarify that the $5,000 given to lawmakers was merely a “Sallah gesture” and not an inducement. Undercover…

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Assassination Allegation: Cold War Between Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory, Onikijipa Worsens

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      ‘How Onikijipa secretly put two Ado (gourds) in my pocket, cajoled my PA for permission to touch my head with fetish item,’ ‘if I Sulaimon Farooq, the son of Aminat knows anything about Mudir Markaz’s illness, let the curses in this holy Qur’an be mine,’ Details of how the two popular Nigerian Islamic scholars – Mudeerul Markaz and Mufti – Turned Tafseer To Tantrums Throwing Tents     The cold war between two popular Islamic scholars in Nigeria, Mudeer of Morcaz Agege, Sheikh Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory and…

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Firm Deepens CSR Investment With Solar Lights, Others In Host Community

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Multisub Energy Limited, an indigenous Oil and Gas exploration and production company, in partnership with the Olure Host Communities’ Development Trust (OHCDT) has commissioned a school furnishing project in Eghoro Community and the installation of 70 street lights in Safa/Ogbin bloc of communities, in Warri North LGA, Delta State. The Abokunwa Primary School in Eghoro was equipped with 50 students’ desks, teachers’ tables and chairs, magic boards and a 120-meter walkway to improve access to quality education in the area. Speaking at the event Chairman and Managing Director of Multisub,…

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BACK FROM THE DEAD!, By Gbemiga Ogunleye

ADEOLA YUSUF

    “My mind then went to how the newspapers would report my passage: GBEMIGA OGUNLEYE, EX NIJ PROVOST IS DEAD! GBEMIGA OGUNLEYE EX PUNCH EDITOR IS DEAD!” everything the veteran journalist wrote about how he walked a thin line between the theatre and the morgue    If like me, you have this bad habit of reading every inscription on buses or on walls, you probably would have seen this inscription on hospital walls: WE CARE; GOD HEALS! That was what I remembered that Saturday morning in Kaduna, as I…

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Undercover Journalist Anas Gets $18m, Wins Libel Case Against Ghana’s ex-Lawmaker In US

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‘Unanimous decision,’ how an eight-member jury in Essex County Superior Court in New Jersey found Mr Agyapong liable for defamation against Mr Anas   A United States court has awarded Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18 million (£14 million) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong. The case stemmed from comments Mr Agyapong made about Mr Anas after his BBC investigation in 2018 that exposed football corruption in Ghana and elsewhere. The BBC Thursday reported that the court heard that Mr…

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