Latest News in Nigeria Today Saturday 20th April 2019
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target=_blank>Edo 2020: group rallies support for Obaseki, Shaibu
A socio-political group, the New Phase of Edo has declared support for Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu’s re-election in next year’s gubernatorial election in the state, arguing that the development strides recorded in the state in the last three years must be sustained beyond 2020.
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target=_blank>Ex-Minister expresses fears over ability of states to pay new minimum wage
A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, has expressed fears that the new N30, 000 minimum wage, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18 would lead to chaos.
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target=_blank>Train crushes truck driver in Aba
A truck driver whose identity has yet to be determined was crushed to death in Aba by a cargo train late on Thursday.
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target=_blank>Death sentence on 8 Nigerians by UAE is unfortunate, says Dabiri-Erewa
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has described the death sentence passed on eight Nigerians in United Arab Emirate (UAE) as unfortunate.
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target=_blank>N30,000 minimum wage, another election promise delivered – APC
The All Progressives Congress APC has commended President Muhammadu Buhari on his assent to the new N30,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers, describing it as another election promise fulfilled.
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target=_blank>Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, burnt to death in school for reporting sexual assault
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh. Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster.
Her courage in speaking out against sexual assault, her death five days after being set alight and everything that happened in-between has gripped Bangladesh and brought attention to the vulnerability of sexual harassment victims in this conservative South Asian country.
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Nusrat, who was 19, was from Feni, a small town 100 miles (160km) south of Dhaka.
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target=_blank>AKSU suspends 4 undergraduates over rape
FOUR undergraduate students of Akwa Ibom State University Obio Akpa Campus in Oruk Anam local government area have been suspended by the University Authorities for allegedly raping a female student.
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target=_blank>Easter: Dogara urges Christians to live like Christ, pray for Nigeria
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has felicitated with Christian faithful across the country on the occasion of Easter, calling on them to live like Jesus Christ and persevere in prayers for the nation.
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target=_blank>Tiv/Jukun crisis: Five killed in fresh attack in Taraba
Five persons have been reportedly killed while three others were injured in Wapan Naku, a suburb of Wukari town in Taraba state, Friday morning in renewed hostility between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic groups.
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Scientists use incurable HIV to ‘cure’ deadly childhood disease
Whoever finds a cure for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) deserves the Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology. The reason is clear. HIV is one of the most intelligent viruses known. It has evaded cure for more than three decades simply because it is incredibly smart, so it’s going to take someone that is very clever indeed, to outsmart it.
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