Author: Platform Times Newspaper

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that 2,404 road traffic crashes led to the deaths of 1,305 Nigerians nationwide during the second quarter of 2024. The report detailed that the North-Central and South-West regions recorded the highest numbers of accidents and casualties. The data indicated that fatalities were overwhelmingly male, with 1,076 men, including male children, killed, accounting for 82.45% of all road fatalities. Additionally, 5,837 males were reported injured, representing 76.30% of the total injured. Female casualties, including children, amounted to 229, or 17.55% of those killed, while 1,813 females were injured, accounting for 23.7% of the injured…

Nigeria spent a staggering N5 trillion on foreign debt servicing within the first nine months of 2024, reflecting the heavy burden of debt on the nation’s finances amid fluctuating exchange rates, data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) shows. The CBN’s international payments system data revealed that debt servicing began the year with a cost of $560.5 million in January, amounting to N509.5 billion based on the exchange rate of N909 per dollar. In February, Nigeria’s foreign debt servicing was $283.3 million, with the naira trading at N1402 per dollar. Consequently, N397.2 billion was spent on debt repayments. This…

The Ogun Progressive People (OPP), led by Convener and Director General Olola Faith Daniel, has declared its firm support for All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship candidates in the forthcoming local government elections in Ogun State, scheduled for November 16, 2024. In a statement, Daniel emphasized the importance of the election and expressed confidence in APC’s capacity to deliver effective governance across the state’s local government areas. According to the OPP leader, the APC remains committed to the values of progress, integrity, and community-centered leadership, which Daniel described as essential qualities in guiding Ogun State’s future. “Our chairmanship candidates have the…

A faction of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reaffirmed its confidence in the judiciary amid ongoing legal disputes surrounding the party’s internal affairs. This assurance comes in response to recent statement by Abayomi Tella led PDP, which allegedly cast doubt on the integrity of the judicial process. In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Wednesday, the PDP’s State Publicity Secretary, Austin Oniyokor, clarified that the remarks were neither sanctioned nor supported by the party’s leadership. Former Chairman of the party, Sikirulahi Ogundele and others emerged from a parallel PDP congress held in Abeokuta. The…

Daud Olatunji The People’s Democratic Party, Ogun State chapter has expressed concerns over the assignment of a judge with strong ties to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to oversee a critical case challenging the eligibility of PDP candidates for the upcoming local government elections in Ogun State. PLATFORM TIMES reports that the case, filed just days before the election, questions the party membership of PDP candidates, aiming to potentially disrupt their candidacy. PLATFORM TIMES further gathered that the case was instituted by former chairman of the PDP in the state, Sikirulahi Ogundele and was billed to be president over by…

The Ogun State chapter of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on all eligible voters to actively participate in the upcoming local government election, scheduled for Saturday, November 16, 2024, while stressing the need for a fair and peaceful electoral process. The appeal was made in a statement signed by MURIC’s State Chairman, Alhaji Jimoh Alao, and issued by the State Secretary, Alhaji Olaleye Rasheed. MURIC described the election as a critical opportunity for citizens to shape leadership at the grassroots level. The group urged Ogun residents not to be discouraged by concerns over potential rigging, asserting that significant…

The thought for establishing the pipeline security force (PSF) have been raised and aggravated to the fore severally by different people from different geo-political zones of the country especially during the first tenure of the Buhari administration. The author of this treatise is one the arrowheads who made spirited efforts for the actualization of the project through the previous NSA and Major General A.B Manman (Rtd.). It is necessary, to state and state vividly at this prefatory point that this endeavor is not one of those self-seeking windows through which contracts or consultancies are sought from the government. It is…

Ayomide Awe The Trisonet Metaverse Community paid has funded over 100,000 students since 2017 with the aim of enhancing educational accessibility worldwide. This was disclosed on Tuesday,at a press conference held at the Palace of the Alake of Egba Land, His Royal Majesty Oba Dr. Michael Gbadebo. Leading the announcement was the community’s CEO, Evangelist Happiness Etuk, along with prominent community members Ambassador Salami Saheed Oladimeji, Mr. Isaiah Emmanuel, and Mr. Udeme Bassey. During the event, Etuk discussed the origin and mission of Trisonet Metaverse, a community founded to harness natural resources from the “cloud” to support lifelong educational access.…

The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has convicted and sentenced a 64-year-old man, Lateef Durojaiye, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 11-year-old girl (name withheld). Durojaiye was sentenced on Tuesday by Justice Rahman Oshodi after he declared that the prosecution had proved his case against the suspect beyond reasonable doubt. The presiding judge said the suspect was initially charged and arraigned on August 5, 2021, but the case was struck out on November 29, 2021, for want of diligent prosecution. It was later re-listed to the court, and he was re-arraigned on May 22, 2022, and April…

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the Commission is currently investigating over 20,000 cases involving economic and financial crimes across Nigeria. Olukoyede emphasized that asset recovery is central to the EFCC’s strategy, allowing the agency to cripple financially corrupt individuals and organizations by denying them resources to resist law enforcement efforts. During an address to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes on Tuesday in Abuja, Olukoyede stated that over the past year, the EFCC has been inundated with over 17,000 petitions, highlighting the scale of economic crimes…