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Nigeria’s Lekoil hunts for lenders’ $100m Ogo oilfield drilling investment

Efe Wellington

Nigerian Energy Company, Lekoil Limited needs to raise around $100 million before it can start drilling in its Ogo oilfield, its chief executive said. Lekoil reached a deferred payment deal earlier this year to keep its stake in OML 310, where Ogo sits, after it discovered a $184 million loan it wanted to use for the purchase was fraudulent. Chief Executive Lekan Akinyanmi said the company was able to finance much of the Ogo preparation work with cash from its producing field, Otakikpo, and will drill once it raises the…

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Unilorin Undergraduate To Clear Drainage For 3 Months Over Romance Scam

Efe Wellington

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced Akinsanya Olamide Ridwan, a four hundred level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin to three months Community Service for committing romance scam. The service requires him to clear the drainage at Bekind filing Station near Tipper Garage, Tanke up to the gate of the University of Ilorin for Three Months commencing from September 2, 2020. Ridwan got the jail term on Monday, August 31, 2020 after being arraigned on one one-count charge, bordering on…

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Why my 34-yr old daughter gave birth to quadruplets after 13 children – mother

Aliyu Aliyu

Mother of Hauwa Sulaiman, a 34 years old housewife and a mother of 13 children who gave birth to quadruplet babies in Zaria, Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, Mallama Saudatu Haruna, has disclosed that her daughter’s child delivery pattern was hereditary. The housewife, Mrs. Hauwa’u Sulaiman was delivered of the four babies on Friday 5th June 2020 at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar Gayan, Zaria. She was, however, transferred to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika with the babies for more medical attention. She had given birth to triplets twice,…

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How COVID-19 killed 589 people in Kano – Minister

Damilola Olonade

The death of 589 people, being the 60% of the “mysterious” deaths in Nigeria’s northern Kano state was triggered by or due to COVID-19, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has declared as he gave graphical details of deaths between April and May. Ehanire, a Medical Doctor, who declared this during a press conference in Abuja, Nigeria’s administrative capital, noted that the peak in deaths occurred in the second week of April, and that by the beginning of May, the death rate had gone back down to the normal rate. Giving…

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Heart attack kills Burundi President, Nkurunziza, at 55

Aoko Francis

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack aged 55. He was, before his death announced in a statement, due to step down in August after his party’s candidate won elections May, and had been president since 2005. Nkurunziza came to power at the end of Burundi’s 12-year civil war, which killed 300,000 people and was driven by similar ethnic tensions as the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A former leader of a Hutu rebel group, he was elected…

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Fear as Five Nigerian Lawmakers Test Positive For COVID-19

Damilola Olonade

  Five out of the 24 members of the Nigeria’s Gombe State House of Assembly have tested positive for COVID-19 creating apprehension across the state. Chairman of the task force, Prof Idris Mohammed, stated this in Gombe on Monday while updating newsmen on the situation of the pandemic in the state. According to him, the lawmakers whose identities were not disclosed have been admitted at different isolation centres in the state. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state, has, together with 66 other people from the state, also tested positive for…

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BREAKING: How Nigeria’s Abia Governor, Ikpeazu, Tested Positive For COVID-19

Efe Wellington

  Governor of Abia State, South East Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, has tested positive for COVID-19. Commissioner of information in the state, John Okiyi Kalu, announced the case in a statement on Monday. He said the governor had gone into isolation before his result returned positive, and that he has directed the deputy governor to act on his behalf pending the time he resumes duty. ”Recall that on Saturday, 30th May, 2020, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu volunteered his sample for COVID-19 test and subsequently directed members of the state Executive Council (EXCO)…

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AustaZeneca, Bill Gates offer 400m vaccine doses on trial to low income nations December

Tim Bauer

  400 million of Oxford coronavirus vaccine should be ready for low and middle income countries by the end of 2020, Pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca has said. There is still no guarantee the vaccine will work but the company is pushing ahead with production anyway to shorten the timeline in case it does prove effective. In all, 2 billion doses of the vaccine will be available for global vaccination after a new deal that included $750m from Bill Gates, Pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca has said. AstraZeneca, which struck two new deals to…

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Singers Simi, Adekunle Gold Welcome First Child

Damilola Olonade

  Singers Simi and Adekunle Gold have welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Adejare. The “Duduke” crooner made the announcement via her Instagram page on Sunday evening. According to the announcement, the couple welcomed their baby on the 30th of May, 2020. She posted a picture of her husband holding the baby’s hand and captioned it: “Adejare. “It’s like free-falling – this unending, soul snatching, infinite, mind-boggling love. “Deja, my baby girl, I got you. I promise. Now and forever. So help me God. 5.30.2020.”

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Nigeria’s Kwara Gov mourns New Telegraph Editor, Waheed Bakare

Damilola Olonade

    Governor of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has commiserated with the family of Mr Waheed Bakare, Saturday Editor of the New Telegraph newspaper. Bakere aged 50 years old died recently after a brief illness. The governor said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye. “On behalf of the people and government of Kwara State, the Governor mourns with the family of Alhaji Waheed Bakare, the New Telegraph family, the entire newspaper industry, and the people of Ajasse Ipo over the death of…

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