Tag: Safety

UN Chief Worries About Detained Niger President’s Health, Safety

ADEOLA YUSUF

UN Secretary-General, Mr Antonio Guterres, has expressed concern about the reported “deplorable living conditions” of the president of Niger in arbitrary detention. UN Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Mr Farhan Haq, said this at a news conference in New York on Thursday. President Mohamed Bazoum and his family are believed to be living without electricity, water, food or medicine, according to media reports. The democratically elected leader has been detained since soldiers seized power on 26 July. READ ALSO: U.S. To Hold Niger Military Junta Accountable For Detained Leader’s Safety…

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EXCLUSIVE: Major Shake up rocks DPR, 6 Deputy Directors Removed + FULL LIST

Damilola Olonade

  A major shake up has rocked Nigeria’s oil industry regulator, the Department of Petroleum (DPR), affecting all deputy directors of the agency, Platforms Africa, gathered exclusively. Described by some staff of the agency, which has newly moved its headquarters to Abija, as a “compulsory but massive retirement of deputy directors,” the gale blew away six of the seven deputy directors. The deputy directors are Head, Corporate Services, Mr. Isah Tafidah; Head, Engineering and Standard, Engineer Akann Musa; Head, Downstream Monitoring and Regulation, Mr.Mohammed Alaku; and Head, Upstream Monitoring and…

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