Leadership Newspapers News Today Saturday 27th April 2019
Nigeria Leadership Newspapers News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 27/04/19
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target=_blank>Neymar Given Three-match Ban Over Instagram Rant
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Paris Saint Germain striker Neymar has been banned from European competition for three matches by UEFA as punishment for a Instagram post criticizing match officials in charge of the French club’s defeat to Manchester United in March. The Brazil international will now miss the first three games of next season’s Champions League group stage. Neymar
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target=_blank>Court Jails 37 Suspected Militants
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Thirty-seven people in Mozambique have been sentenced for involvement in recent militants attacks in the country’s North, a court official said on Friday. The closed-door trial started in 2018 with many more defendants but 113 were acquitted due to lack of evidence, Zacarias Napatima, a spokesman at Cabo Delgado Provincial Court in Pemba, said. The
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target=_blank>NEMA Intensifies Move To Rescue Kidnapped Staff
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday that it was making effort to ensure the release of its abducted staff. Mr Vincent Owan, Director, Disaster Risk Reduction, NEMA, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt. Owan recalled that four of the agency staff who were mandated to carry out National Food Security
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target=_blank>Trump Rejects UN Arms Trade Treaty
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U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected a UN arms trade treaty that was approved by his predecessor Barack Obama and is currently waiting in the Senate for ratification. “The UN will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty,” Trump said on Friday, addressing the National Rifle Association (NRA), a pro-gun group,
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target=_blank>Lagos Pardons 14 Prison Inmates, Coverts Death Row For 20 Others To Life Imprisonment
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Lagos State Government on Friday pardoned 14 inmates of the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in state, who have been behind bars for over 20 years for various offences. The government, through the Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy also converted to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on 20 others inmates of the prison. The
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target=_blank>Court Dismisses Certificate Forgery Suit Against Hon. Idrisu
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit challenging the nomination of Hon. Lawal Mohammed Idrisu as member representing Ajaokuta federal constituency of Kogi State. Hon. Okino Aloysius Adeiza of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had on 31st October, 2018, filed a pre-election matter, challenging the qualification of Hon. Idris who
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target=_blank>FG Urges Stakeholders To Key Into Open Defecation-Free Nigeria By 2025
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The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has called on stakeholders across the country to key into the action plan of Hygiene and Sanitation and ensuring Open Defecation Free society by 2025. To achieve the set target, Adamu tasked them to ensure that households are properly mobilised to provide sanitation facilities in order to realise
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target=_blank>FG Decries Dwindling Fortunes Of Cocoa Production
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The Federal Government has expressed displeasure over the downward trend of cocoa production in the country. Mr Olusegun Awolowo, the Executive Director, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), said this at an export skill acquisition programme for cocoa farmers, merchants and exporters in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom on Friday. Awolowo represented by a
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target=_blank>NFF Clears Star Plus FC For FA Cup Final
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Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has cleared Star Plus FC of Ngwo, to play the final of the FA cup competition in Enugu on Sunday. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Star Plus FC was alleged to have used unregistered players in the semifinal match of the competition against Giant Brillars FC. The matter which
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Oyo Opens Negotiation With Labour On Minimum Wage
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Oyo State Government has opened negotiation with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the new minimum wage which was recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The state government while congratulating the new leadership of the NLC in the state led by Comrade Titilola Sodo as chairman in an election which […]
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