Author: Platform Times Newspaper

No fewer than 24,000 Nigerians have been reported missing by their families since 2015, according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). María Toscano, Team Lead, Protection of Family Links at the ICRC, revealed this alarming figure on Tuesday during a media workshop held in Maiduguri, Borno State. She explained that most of the cases are linked to the Boko Haram insurgency and other conflicts in the North-East region. According to Toscano, Borno State alone accounts for nearly 9,000 of the 16,000 missing persons documented by the ICRC in the North-East, with Bama Local Government Area…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is reportedly considering a dramatic return to Nigeria’s presidential race in 2027, amid rising calls from key political stakeholders and senior members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urging him to run against incumbent President Bola Tinubu. According to Vanguard report, multiple sources within the PDP confirmed that the Bayelsa-born politician has shown interest in accepting the party’s ticket to contest the forthcoming election, positioning himself as a unifying figure to rescue the nation from worsening economic hardship, insecurity, and political uncertainty. A close ally of Jonathan, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Vanguard that…

A hearing-impaired woman, Hauwa’u Bello, has dragged her husband, Usman Shuaibu, before a Shari’a Court in the Magajin Gari area of Kaduna State, seeking the dissolution of their nine-year marriage over alleged neglect and starvation. Bello, who spoke through a sign language interpreter, Aisha Sulaiman, told the court on Wednesday that her husband gives her only N50 daily to feed herself and their child. “We got married in 2016, and at the beginning, my parents provided food for us. But when the food ran out, things turned worse,” she said. The complainant, who claimed her husband is a tailor, accused…

Egbin Power Plc, Ikeja Electric Plc, and First Independent Power Limited (FIPL) have strongly denied reports suggesting they are under receivership, describing the claims as false, misleading, and in contempt of a subsisting court ruling. The managements of the power firms, in a joint statement on Wednesday, faulted advertorials published in This Day newspaper, which claimed that a Receiver/Manager, “Kunle Ogunba (SAN),” had been appointed over KEPCO Energy Resource Nigeria Limited, NG Power-HPS Limited, and New Electricity Distribution Company—the parent companies of the operating firms. Reacting to the publication, Babatunde Osadare, Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer of Ikeja Electric, who…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned six persons, including top officials of the Katsina State Board of Internal Revenue and a First Bank employee, over their alleged involvement in a N1.2 billion fraud linked to funds from international donor agencies. The suspects — Nura Lawal, Sanusi Mohammed Yaro, Ibrahim Mamman, Abubakar Saidu, Rabiu Adamu Abdullahi, and Adam Alhassan Albashir — were on Tuesday,  brought before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court by the EFCC’s Kano Zonal Directorate. They were arraigned on a seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy, diversion of public funds, and money laundering.…

An accountant with the Oyo State Hospital Management Board, Wahab Olabanji, has been sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison after being convicted for defrauding job applicants under the guise of offering them employment in government agencies. Olabanji, who served as Chief Executive Officer (Accounts), Grade Level 14, was found guilty of collecting money from multiple unsuspecting individuals seeking jobs at the state’s Hospital Management Board and the Teaching Service Commission. The conviction followed a 17-month trial prosecuted by the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA). The agency’s Chairman, Justice Eni Esan (retd), confirmed in a statement issued on…

Veteran Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, is currently under scrutiny by aviation authorities following a disruptive incident at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, which led to the suspension of two ValueJet pilots. According to findings by PLATFORM TIMES, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) confirmed on Wednesday that the musician spilled alcohol on an aviation security officer during a confrontation over a restricted item he attempted to board with — a flask containing alcohol. The incident, which occurred on August 5, 2025, reportedly escalated when Ayinde refused multiple directives to surrender the liquid,…

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that a significant number of abandoned estates in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, are owned by corrupt civil servants who used stolen public funds to develop them. Olukoyede made this disclosure on Wednesday during a policy dialogue on Nigeria’s real estate ecosystem, organised by Law Corridor in Abuja. He said many of the estates had been deserted for between 10 and 20 years, having been started with illicit funds which dried up once the officials exited public service. “It will shock you that some of…

Former Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has expressed deep sorrow over the death of veteran journalist and media icon, Dr. Doyin Abiola, describing her passing as a monumental loss to the journalism profession and the nation at large. Dr. Abiola, wife of the late Chief MKO Abiola—winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election—died on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, at the age of 82. In a condolence message issued by his media office on Wednesday, Amosun described Dr. Abiola as a trailblazer who not only broke gender barriers in Nigerian media but also inspired a generation of female…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has reaffirmed the apex bank’s commitment to working closely with the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) to strengthen financial system stability amid growing economic uncertainties. Cardoso made the pledge in Abuja on Tuesday during a courtesy visit by the newly appointed management team of the NDIC, led by its Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mr. Thompson O. Sunday, to the CBN headquarters. The CBN Governor congratulated Sunday and the new Executive Director, Operations, Dr. Kabir Katata, on their appointments and expressed optimism about deepening institutional synergy between the two financial…