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By Onomiguren Agbamu Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has congratulated the Asagba of Asaba, Obi (Prof) Chike Edozien on his 99th birth anniversary. Oborevwori in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba on Friday, said that Obi Chike Edozien is a distinguished medical scholar and Nigeria’s first Professor of Physiology. He remarked that since his ascension to the throne in 1991 as the 13th Asagba of Asaba, Obi Edozien had continued to provide purposeful leadership for his people and residents of Asaba, the State capital. Oborevwori said that under the monarch’s reign, Asaba…

Exactly 60 Days after he was sworn in for second term as governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun has submitted the list of Commissioner nominees . PLATFORM TIMES reports that Abiodun was sworn in May 29,2023 after he was declared winner at the governorship election held March 18,2023. PLATFORM TIMES also reports that the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, confirmed that the Assembly has received a correspondence from Abiodun. Oluomo was reported to have said that the governor in the correspondence was requesting for the confirmation of Commissioner Nominees that would be appointed to superintend…

World Health Organisation has raised the alarm that the world has passed from a warming phase into an “era of global boiling.” US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said this while speaking about climate change at UN headquarters in New York City on Thursday. Guterres pleaded for immediate radical action on climate change, saying that record-shattering July temperatures show Earth has unfortunately moved from warming to boiling. The secretary-general described the intense heat across the Northern Hemisphere as a “cruel summer.” “For the entire planet, it is a disaster,” he said, noting that “short of a mini-Ice Age over the next days,…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to ignore what he termed ‘mischief makers’ and their web of fake news on the allegation that he visited Bola Ahmed Tinubu to influence the choice of minister from Bayelasa. Jonathan who denied the allegation,said some politicians in the state might have wrongly misinterpreted his recent visit to the Presidential Villa. A group known as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Council in Bayelsa State on Wednesday, raised alarm over the alleged move by the ex-Nigerian leader to influence the nomination of a ministerial slot from Bayelsa State to President Tinubu. Jonathan in…

A former Chairman of the Textile Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said that only 20 out if 175 textile industries are currently in operation in the country. Jibrin lamented that a few years ago, not less than 175 textile industries were in operation in Nigeria . Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna, Jibrin recalled that the textiles industry used to be the second employer of labour after the government. He however, decried that, “unfortunately, the story is different today as the sector is a mirage with a lot of challenges that led to its gradual collapse.” According…

A middled-aged man, Mohammed Faworaja has lost his life after he was chased by a dog while going to buy sardine in Ilọrin, the Kwara State capital. PLATFORM TIMES reports that the incident occurred around Asa Dam Warah/Osin area. PLATFORM TIMES gathered from a blogger, Hashim Ibrahim Bolaji in his tweets on the incident. Ibrahim with the handle @donimama4all over the weekend broke the news. Netizens in several condolences had mourned the deceased, calling for the persecution of the owner of the dog. A source who craved anonymity said “The dog, a German shepherd, got loose, and chased the deceased…

Ogun State government has begun the moves to convert 2000 state-owned mass transit buses from use of petrol to use of Compressed Natural Gas. The Governor, Dapo Abiodun disclosed this on Thursday in an interview with newsmen after inspecting first successfully converted diesel and petrol bus at the state Secretariat Oke-mosan, Abeokuta, the state capital on Thursday. Abiodun explained that to ensure sure smooth take off of the process, CNG stations would be positioned along bus routes across the state. The Governor noted that the positioning of the fuel stations for compressed natural gas along bus routes would ensure the…

The Federal Government has raised the alarm that it had discovered that many medical doctors who have left the country in search of greener pastures, in other climes, are still on the pay rolls of public hospitals. Director General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, stated this on Thursday, at a meeting organised by the an Ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives, to address the strike action by National Association of Resident Doctors ( NARD). Akabueze said strikes by the doctors were affecting the country negatively. Akubueze said: “When you look at the nominal role, many of the people…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has denied allegations that it was involved in unethical activities to collaborate with influential individuals in election cases in court. PLATFORM TIMES reports that WAEC was criticised and acussed on social media that a top WAEC director at its headquarters in Lagos State received huge sums of money to conceal and manipulate academic records on the WAEC database in favour of the defendants. The reports claimed that WAEC was complicit in denying all litigants access to examination records as proof of an influential individual facing legal action, noting that an investigative agency had gone…

Four ex-governors including former governors of Karuna and Rivers States, Mallam Nasir El -Rufai and Nyesome Wike respectively made President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list read on the floor of the Senate on Thursday afternoon. Other ex-governors, were Dave Umahi (Ebonyi); and Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa). Presidential spokesman, Dele Alake; acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Kyari; Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Lateef Fagbemi; also made the list. Following much anticipation by Nigerians over the list, the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday, presented Tinubu’s ministerial list before the Senate. Gbajabiamila, the immediate…