The deal is to provide an emergency power to Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, after series of bombing by Boko Haram insurgents disconnected the city from the national grid. A significant step towards redeeming the pledge by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to intervene in the perennial electric power supply challenge in Maiduguri, Borno State, was taken Tuesday with the execution of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) and Equipment Procurement contracts for an Emergency Power Project in Maiduguri. Platforms Africa reports that the deal is to provide an emergency power of 50 Megawatt to Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, after series of bombing…
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Tragedy struck in Ondo state community as a 62yr old man identified as Moshood Lasisi has been found dead in his room at Ayede ogbese in Akure North Local Government area. According to Sunshinetruth, Lasisi who was walking on crushes was said to have hung himself when his wife and children had gone to farm. His corpse was later discovered when the wife returned and knocked severally but without response. According to the wife, Lady Evangelist Victoria Lasisi, she had to peep through the window where she now saw her husband body dangling from the rope with which he allegedly…
Fifty-four of Nigerian soldiers, convicted for demanding for better armaments to combat insurgency, have regained their freedom after seven years in prison. Their death sentences had earlier been commuted to 10 years jail term after a review of their cases The fighters were however, released on Tuesday from the medium-security custodian centre, Kirikiri, Apapa maximum prison, and Ikoyi correctional centre after which they were taken to the chambers of human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, in Ikeja, Lagos State. Falana, who represented the soldiers at the military court-martial, argued that “the only allegation proved against them at the courts-martial was…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed September 4 for the party’s LGA congresses across the country. In a statement on Wednesday, John Akpanudoedehe, national secretary of the APC caretaker committee, said the sale of nomination forms has already commenced. The party held its ward congresses on July 31 in most of the states in the country except in the federal capital territory (FCT), Bayelsa and Imo states. The LGA congress is another step leading up to the party’s national elective convention. Since the dissolution of the national working committee (NWC) led by Adams Oshiomhole, the former national chairman, in…
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Disaster struck in the home of popular Lagos billionaire and industrialist, Prince Samuel Adedoyin on Tuesday, when his daughter, Lola Olobayo died after a brief illness. A family source revealed that Lola, who was said to be a loveable and decent person, died in a hospital in Lagos about seven days after admission. The cause of death was said to be cardiac arrest occasioned by COVID-19. The last moment of the wife of the very sociable Ilorin, Kwara State-based millionaire, Prince John Olobayo, Lola was spent with close family friends, while we gathered that she had not seen her husband…
The case which is currently before an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, details how an official of the bank, Ifeanyichukwu Shallom Isituah and a businessman, Ighodaro Austin Osaretin allegedly stole the sum of N1,790,558,000. 00 belonging to a customer of the bank, Wells Procurement Limited with account number – 0016798848. In the charge sheet seen by our correspondent, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Adamu Mohammed, told the court that the agency received a petition with reference No: SB/IAG/12/EFCC/011 duly signed by the Head IT and Head Intelligence and Investigation on behalf of Sterling Bank. Mohammed, who works with…
By Akinwale Kasali There is palpable tension in the Automobile department of Stallion Group of Companies, a conglomerate, as the workers as embarked on strike. The reason for this action is not far fetched. This is as a result of the failure of the company to give its workers a conducive and enabling working environment, lack of benefits, Non Remittance of Pension for the past Six months, Poor Healthcare Facilities (HMO) and the Non payment of their 13th month salary since 2015. The affected workers who are embittered about the maltreatment they are going through in the company, said they…
THE National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA, has refuted the allegation that it hoisted an Islamic flag, indicating allegiance to Islamic and Taliban groups. A flag bearing Islamic inscription and said to have been hoisted in the conference room of the Nigerian humanitarian agency had gone viral in social media, attracting controversies following insinuations in some quarters that Nigeria was gradually being Islamized by authorities. Although NEMA did not deny hoisting the flag which has attracted public attention, it, however, explained that the said flag is that of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre,a humanitarian aid group in the Kingdom of…
For a while, there have been talks about revamping the outdated 2007 Act of Nigeria’s information and technology body, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). The bill, which established NITDA as the agency to oversee Nigeria’s technological transformation, is quite outdated. This past decade, Nigeria has arguably become Africa’s most attractive destination for venture capital. It is also home to two unicorns (Flutterwave and Jumia) and billion-dollar fintech company Interswitch. To keep up with the pace of innovation that has swept the country, NITDA tasked itself to review these laws and make them more beneficial for startups. Earlier this year,…
