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12/05/2024

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07/03/2022

30/09/2020

Major stories today, Wednesday, 30/09/20

👁️ Buhari orders extension of Itakpe - Warri Railway to link South and North before 2023

👁️ FG declares October 1 public holiday

👁️ P & ID case: UK Court orders release of $200m deposit to Nigeria

👁️ Buhari replaces two ambassadors-designate, seeks Senate confirmation of FCCPC, NPC nominees

👁️ I have no regrets go heading panel on Magu – Salami

👁️ COVID-19:NIMR presents SIMA test kits to Health Ministry

👁️ Sanwo-Olu, Fashola seek Lagosians understanding on proposed 4th Mainland Bridge

👁️ Nigeria develops own kit to test for COVID-19

👁️ 2023: Ex-Lagos commissioner, Abdullateef, declares gov ambition

👁️ My mandate divine, Ondo Deputy Gov tells kinsmen

👁️ Nigeria Oil Reform Bill would create upstream regulator

👁️ 4th Mainland Bridge: Lagos unveils logo,meets stakeholders

👁️ Ondo election: Many injured, over 20 vehicles, motorcycles destroyed as APC, PDP supporters clash

👁️ Court Dismisses El-Zakzaky’s No-case Submission

👁️ School feeding: Education secretary arraigned over missing fund

👁️ Lagos Assembly Appoints Onafeko As Acting Clerk

👁️ White House pressured CDC on reopening schools, officials say

👁️ Boris Johnson has apologised for getting the government' coronavirus restrictions wrong

👁️ UK has reported a large increase in Covid-19 cases and the highest death tally since 1 July

👁️ Tottenham outshines Chelsea on penalties

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09/09/2020

Major stories today, Wednesday, 09/09/20

👁️Fuel, electricity hike: OPC flays FG, says subsidy removal ill-timed

👁️FG, states, local govts, others receive N3.9trn from FAAC in six months — NEITI

👁️FG dragged to ECOWAS Court over hate speech enforcement

👁️FG launches new rapid test kit for HIV

👁️LASG inaugurates TaskForce on human trafficking

👁️Pastor Adeboye, wife celebrate 53rd wedding anniversary

👁️Ondo 2020: I’ll defeat Akeredolu, Jegede, says Agboola

👁️We are building new NAN -/ MD

👁️2,286 primary school teachers in Niger state caught with forged certificate

👁️Ebonyi takes over 100-year-old Presbyterian hospital

👁️Kaduna spends N400,O00 to treat each COVID-19 patient - El-Rufai

👁️We’ll develop historical Irefin Palace in Ibadan to rival Buckingham Palace – Oyo

👁️Tension as Ondo Monarch announces death of rival monarch

👁️Police arrest 6 over attack on Ikorodu monarch

👁️SON destroys 4 truck loads of substandard electric cables

👁️ECOWAS postpones launch of single currency

👁️Davido ‘falls’ face down during visit to Oniru

👁️We’ll stamp out kidnapping in Akokoland — Jegede assures

👁️NSCDC confirms death of kidnapped officer in Kaduna

👁️UN condemns use of schools as isolation centres, IDP Camps, Military bases

👁️Japanese firm develops robot that can kill COVID-19

👁️Smugglers rob, abandon Nigerian migrants in Sahara Desert

👁️White House optimistic on prospects for new stimulus

👁️Everton close to loan deal for Tomori

👁️Maja named Ligue 1 Player to watch in 2020/21

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07/09/2020

Major stories today Monday, 07/09/2020

👁️FG says N30.5b was spent in 4 months to tackle COVID-19

👁️Buhari attends ECOWAS Summit in Niger Republic today

👁️History will be kind to Buhari for removing subsidies – Presidency

👁️Foreign accounts: Malami seeks more time to release Dino Melaye’s file

👁️School reopening without adherence to COVID-19 protocols dangerous — ASUU

👁️Subsidy: Past govts lacked courage to take action - FG

👁️Edo 2020:Don’t subvert the will of electorate, PDP tells INEC, security agencies

👁️Oba Gbolahan Lawal ascends the Oniru ancestral throne, as Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu charge new Oniru to strengthen unity, peace

👁️Lagos reopens recreational parks

👁️2 NYSC members get automatic employment in FCT

👁️FG provides relief for flood, Boko Haram victims in Borno

👁️Kaduna condemns bandits’ attacks, lauds Jema’a peace initiative

👁️Military says security agencies on red alert over possible terrorist attack in FCT, environs

👁️Many burnt to death as bus catches fire in Anambra

👁️Mali junta gives ousted president 3 months to return home after treatment in UAE

👁️Turkey's Erdogan renews support for Libya's UN-recognised government

👁️Flood wrecks havoc in Sudan

👁️Powerful typhoon slams Japan with violent winds, heavy rain

👁️COVID-19: Traore withdraws from Spain squad

👁️Quadri Aruna leads Africa to World Cup

👁️Ministry reads riot act to NFA, Clubs over resumption of league

👁️CAF ready to support Egypt with missing AFCON trophy

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02/09/2020

Major stories today Wed., 02 Sept. 2020

👁️Over 5,000 lawyers seeking to join New NBA, says convener

👁️15 kidnap suspects held in Delta, Anambra

👁️FCTA rolls out housing for officials

👁️Buratai presents flat to ex-soldier, 85, evicted by Kaduna govt

👁️Yobe council polls for December 5

👁️Female education tops Matawalles to-do list

👁️Taraba blessed with rich resources, says minister

👁️Peace must return to Tiv-Jukun communities

👁️Pastor arrested again for r**e in Anambra

👁️Lagos Assembly to Sanwo-Olu: check drug abuse among students

👁️Bauchi to connect Air force base to grid

👁️Kano Pilgrims Board refunds N440m

👁️Controversy over INECs power to deregister parties

👁️Crisis brews in Rivers PDP over chieftains chairmanship ambition

👁️Naira gains 9.7% at parallel market

👁️FIRS targets N446b from stamp duty

👁️PenCom, PFA appeal judgment on 50 per cent lump sum

👁️CONSTITUTION REVIEW: Yoruba group backs NEF, tackles Senate

👁️Oil companies accused of wanting to dump plastics in Africa

👁️Senators deny being paid COVID-19 palliative by NDDC, demand evidence

👁️CAMA not targeted at Christians, Buhari's aide swears before CAN

👁️Playing against Messi would be a dream come true ' Greenwood

👁️Insecurity: Ex*****on will end terrorism, treat them as such ' Bello

👁️Gbajabiamila gets Buhari's blessings, leaves for Ghana

👁️IGP craves traditional rulers' support in war against banditry

👁️Plot to traffic orphan to Ghana by uncle aborted in Ebonyi

👁️COVID-19 cases pass 25m worldwide

👁️Busie Matsiko-Andan highlights effect of COVID-19 on music with RESET

👁️GUINEA: 83 year old Conde seeks third term as president

👁️Imo North by-election: Okorocha battles APC national caretaker committee

👁️ActionAid hails Buhari over establishment of Disability Commission

👁️Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina arrested for terrorism

👁️2023 Presidency: Ethnicity no factor in presidential ticket ' Uzodimma

👁️2023 election'll be a farce without restructuring ' PANDEF

👁️Ize-Iyamu suspends campaign, griefs with accident victims

👁️Legislative By-elections: APC clears 45, says no preferred candidates

👁️Plateau PDP: Caretaker committee hands over after six days

👁️McDonald's discriminates against Black franchisees, lawsuit claims

👁️Allow South East to produce president for unity of Nigeria ' Victor Umeh

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31/08/2020

Major stories today, Monday, 31/08/2020

👁️ADP to Buhari: Pay attention to ISIS, ISWAP presence in Nigeria

👁️FG to inject over N600bn into agriculture for food security

👁️South-East Govs call for more international flights to Enugu Airport

👁️Nigeria has also taken steps that affected us, Ghanaian minister replies Lai

👁️NBA President Akpata to audit 2016, 2018, 2020 elections

👁️Sirika calls on investors to participate in Enugu airport concession

👁️Ekiti PDP crisis deepens as Fayose, Olujimi hold separate congresses

👁️FEMA, NEMA rescue 3 persons trapped in building

👁️Lagos to start dislodgement of illegal slaughter slabs September 1

👁️Edo 2020:ADC Candidate promises to harness CBN, World Bank Loans to boost Agriculture

👁️Fayose speaks on Oni’s defection to PDP

👁️Vigilante group ambushes suspected kidnappers,kills three in Yobe

👁️Varsities ready to resume — Union

👁️Fuel subsidy returns, as NNPC pays N5.4bn as under recovery

👁️Aba traders accuse commissioner, market chairman of extortion

👁️Unlatched containers: FRSC relaunches Operation Scorpion III in Lagos

👁️Two armed robbers nabbed as they move to block expressway in Ogun

👁️US intel chief rebukes lawmakers over 'pandemic' of leaks

👁️Messi skips Barca COVID-19 test

👁️Lyon beat Wolfsburg, Clinch record Women’s Champions League title

👁️Messi can only leave Barca if €700m is paid – La Liga

👁️Bayern Munich star Lewandowski wins footballer of the year in Germany

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26/08/2020

News update, Wednesday, 26/8/20

👁️Buhari swears in 12 Permanent Secretaries

👁️Osoba Becomes NIJ Governing Council Chairman

👁️Police Kill Wanted Serial Killer In Ogun

👁️International Francophone Community Suspends Mali’s Membership Over Coup

👁️Actress Pat Ugwu Twerks For Fans, Half Naked (video)

👁️Mikel Scores In First Game For Stoke City

👁️NDLEA, Customs, Police Intercept 11.8 million Tramadol Tablets In Lagos

👁️Bayelsa: Diri Swears In Igali, 24 Other Commissioners, SA [Full list]

👁️NFF Endorses Outgoing NPFL Final Table

👁️Woman Found Dead Next To Starving Baby In UK

👁️BBNaija 2020: Praise Reveals Five Housemates Likely To Make Finals

👁️Govs Will Not Pay Community Policemen Says – Akeredolu

👁️Like Polio, we can defeat COVID-19,Buhari declares

👁️FG commences work on new National Development Plans

👁️N125bn NASS budget inadequate

👁️Sanwo-Olu swears-in Governing Councils of Lagos tertiary institutions

👁️IGP denies waiver for screening in police recruitment

👁️NUJ condemns Fani-Kayode’s verbal attack on journalist

👁️APC "ll soon take over Cross River State

👁️Police Recruitment: Entry requirements must be followed – IGP

👁️Why we are probing Chinese loans - Reps Committee chair

👁️Kano approves over N400 million for students SSCE

👁️Bayelsa governor swears in commissioner six months after inauguration

👁️Ekiti Assembly okays 14 commissioners, Special Advisers

👁️Delta state vows to address cult clashes

👁️Lagos Assembly tours schools, commend level of compliance to COVID-19 protocols

👁️Aare Ona Kakanfo: Terrorists now in Oyo, Niger states

👁️NUJ: Akinreti flags off re-election campaign in Lagos with "Consolidation 2020"

👁️1.9million Nigerians living with HIV/AIDs — Medical expert

👁️Chloroquine kills COVID-19 virus in early stages – NAFDAC

👁️Customs seizes contrabands worth N79.6 million in Kano

👁️Army sacks bandits in Katsina, rescue victims

👁️NIMASA lauds Nigerian Navy on enforcement of new anti-piracy law

👁️WHO finally declares Nigeria, African Region free of wild poliovirus,

👁️Hushpuppi arraigned in California, trial set to begin

👁️Messi hands Barcelona transfer request

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24/08/2020

Major stories today Monday, 24/08/2020

👁️ECOWAS mediation team meets ousted President, Junta leaders

👁️14 million children out of school in Nigeria ― Obasanjo

👁️Former Kano Emir Sanusi in Kaduna

👁️Why Salami panel can’t submit interim report now, by Magu

👁️Ex-governors’ forum appoints Ngige as ‘key adviser’

👁️Party disowns judgment sacking Diri

👁️Farmers urge Governor Umahi to establish sesame seed processing plant

👁️Rice farmers escape with N364m Central Bank of Nigeria loans in Taraba State

👁️Bayelsa federal poly seeks intervention over threatening coastal erosion

👁️Petroleum varsity moves to revolutionise oil, gas sector

👁️Enugu govt says demolished structures around airport won’t frustrate rail to S’East

👁️Three feared dead, others injured as police, Shiites clash in Kaduna

👁️Disbelief, jubilation in Akinyele LGA as Oyo serial killer, Shodipe, is rearrested

👁️LASG deploys COVID-19 safety marshals across jetties

👁️No ethnic consideration in NBA’s decision on El-Rufai, says Usoro

👁️Court freezes 65 accounts for forex manipulation

👁️Boko Haram recruiting IDPs, Zulum warns

👁️NAF begins 3 day medical outreach for Southern Kaduna IDPs

👁️Naira crashes 108% against CFA

👁️NCC seeks reduction of data charges

👁️160 Nigerian businesses ‘still locked in Ghana’

👁️Mali junta wants three-year military rule, agrees to free president

👁️Bayern Munich win 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League

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22/08/2020

Major stories today Saturday, 22/08/2020

👁️Buhari sets up panel to investigate sacking of Unilag VC

👁️Senate uncovers alleged multi-billion naira fraud in NTA

👁️INEC clears Akeredolu, Ajayi, Jegede, 14 others for Ondo governorship poll

👁️Badagry Rainstorm: Lagos govt compensate another 21 victims

👁️SEC prioritizes investor protection, to drive millennia participation in capital market

👁️NBA Conference: Usoro apologises to el-Rufai over his withdrawal as speaker

👁️Adhere To COVID-19 Protocols, NOA tell schools management

👁️Makurdi court remands Benue APC lawmaker for criminal conspiracy, robbery, abduction

👁️Kaduna lifts ban on daily prayers, services

👁️2022: Osun West APC declares support for Oyetola

👁️Edo 2020: APC alleges influx of arms into state, accuses Okowa, others of complicity

👁️ Imota Rice Mill: Lagos promises December deadline

👁️UNILAG crisis: ‘Sacked’ VC withdraws court case

👁️Mummy Calm down’ boy desires to be a police officer and here’s why

👁️Tragedy averted as jet crashes into fence at Lagos airport

👁️WHO hopes to end COVID-19 pandemic in ‘less than two years’

👁️Mali Coup: President still in captivity as mutineers release two officials

👁️US suspends military aid to Mali after coup

👁️DR Congo records 100 cases of Ebola in new outbreak

👁️Barcelona announce Koeman’s appointment as manager

👁️Sevilla beat Inter Milan to win 6th Europa League title in style

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21/08/2020

Major stories today Friday, 21/08/2020

👁️Mali: Buhari, ECOWAS leaders in emergency summit

👁️House of Reps suspends committee hearings

👁️Lagos will collaborate with NEPZA for businesses to thrive in Nigeria, says Sanwo-Olu

👁️NBA withdraws El-Rufai's invitation as Speaker at conference over Kaduna killings

👁️El-Rufai vows to continue making his voice heard after lawyers kicked him out of NBA conference

👁️Operation Scorpion II: FRSC impounds 800 articulated vehicles, prosecutes 150 offenders

👁️Arotile: Prime suspect to face culpable homicide

👁️Angela Okorie arrives in Awka for Jessybela foundation anniversary

👁️2 killed in renewed Tiv/Jukun crisis

👁️No project removed from NDDC budget-Committee chair

👁️Bauchi commissioner resigns, aligns with Dogara

👁️Gunmen kill 11 in Kaduna village

👁️NIMASA approves promotion of 9 Directors

👁️How troops thwarted attack on resettled IDPs in Borno – Military

👁️ISWAP terrorists attack troops, kill three soldiers in Borno

👁️Pastors yet to open churches are not believers–Oyakhilome

👁️Biden gets nod to face Trump

👁️Germany records highest daily COVID-19 cases since April

👁️China defends Wuhan pool party after global outrage

👁️Thousands flee as fast-moving wildfires spread in California

👁️COVID-19: UK to replace expired visa free for Nigerians

👁️Buhari appoints Amokachi Special Assistant on Sports

👁️Liverpool to begin Premier League title defence against Leeds

👁️Premier League: Man U to face Tottenham, Chelsea, 1 other tough team

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19/08/2020

Today's major stories

👁️Stop Southern Kaduna killings now, Muslim students tell FG

👁️Jonathan briefs Buhari on Mali crisis

👁️FG, Lagos, transport unions to collaborate on truck restriction

👁️2021 Budget: Finance Minister warns MDAs on foreign travels, trainings, others

👁️Sule updates Buhari on socio-political developments in Nasarawa State

👁️Over 20,000 Nigerians employed for Lagos-Ibadan Rail project — Amaechi

👁️25 Anambra health workers infected with COVID-19 — Commissioner

👁️774, 000 Jobs: Reps Minority Caucus accuses APC of high jacking slots

👁️Riots at Atiku's 'slave house ' in Yola,as Indians molests female workers

👁️NITDA digital centre to help Nigeria fight cyber attacks — Minister

👁️COVID-19: NBA begins payment of N10,000 ‘palliatives’ to Nigerian lawyers

👁️Mompha sues EFCC for N5m over fresh arrest

👁️Bayelsa Assembly screens 24 commissioner-nominees

👁️Deregistration: Don’t waste taxpayers’ funds on appeal — CUPP tells INEC

👁️Bandits from Northeast, Northwest troubling Nasarawa- Gov. Sule

👁️Gunmen kill one, abduct ex-Commissioner’s children, NSCDC personnel in Zamfara

👁️Blasphemy: Shari’ah Council wants Kano govt. to execute court judgement

👁️Blacksmith, two others arrested for illegal fi****ms fabrication

👁️Rising inflation: Stabilise forex now – experts tell CBN

👁️Trump erupts angrily at Michelle Obama's convention takedown

👁️Victor Moses helps Inter into Europa League final

👁️Barcelona sack sporting director, Eric Abidal

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