Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Thursday 27th June 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>Presidential amnesty program to empower 2500 N’Delta youths
The National Development Program for the establishment of industrial fishing and associated seafood production in Nigeria is set to take off through a joint venture with a group of local and international partners. A delegation of the Federal Government is set to depart for Greece and Costa Rica on a Facility Inspection as part of
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target=_blank>Akpabio parading fake results, INEC tells Akwa Ibom tribunal
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday informed the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state that the figures being bandied by the APC in the Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial district election, Senator Godswill Akpabio were fake. Akpabio, a petitioner who is challenging the victory of Senator Christopher Ekpenyong of
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target=_blank>Actionaid to spend 900 million naira in Kogi, Nasarawa
The Actionaid Nigeria has said it has budgeted the sum of N900 million for the second phase of its System and structure Strengthening Approach Against Radicalization to Violent Extremism (SERVE) project in Kogi and Nasarawa States. The country director, Actionaid Nigeria, Ms. Ene Obi who stated this yesterday in Lokoja at the official launching SERVE
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target=_blank>Gunmen abduct driver along Ondo/ Ekiti borders
Suspected gunmen have abducted a driver of a commercial vehicle travelling along Akure /Ikere Ekiti road. This was coming barely 24 hours after the governors of Southwest states converged on Ibadan, Oyo State capital to chat a way out violent crimes in the zone. The incident occurred barely a week after the Nigerian Army launched
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target=_blank>NDLEA seizes 147kg of illicit drugs at Lagos Airport in 6 months
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) says it seized 146.82kg of illicit drugs between January and June 2019. It also said that it apprehended 33 suspected traffickers during the period at the airport. The NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr Garba Ahmadu, said this while speaking with
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target=_blank>LASU suspends 3 students over cultism, rape
Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU) has approved the indefinite suspension of two final year students, Oloyede Akanbi and Tobiloba Olutade over cultism related activities. The university said on Wednesday in Lagos that Akanbi and Olutade were 400 level students of the Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management and Department of Accounting,
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target=_blank>Court dissolves 5-year-old marriage over husband’s impotence
A Grade “C” Customary Court, sitting in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Wednesday dissolved a five-year-old marriage between Afeez and Abibat Imran over his alleged impotence. Abibat had approached the court in December 2018, seeking divorce. The complainant told the court that she had endured enough and wanted to pathways with her estranged husband. “We have
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target=_blank>Niger Gov appoints CPS, two others as DGs
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger state has approved the appointment of Mary Noel Berje as the new Chief Press Secretary. In a statement made available to Journalists from the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Ahmed Matane, the appointment is with immediate effect. Until her appointment, she was a staff of the Nigerian
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target=_blank>15 jailed for drug trafficking in Ebonyi – NDLEA
15 persons in Ebonyi state have been jailed for drug abuse/trafficking between January and June this year. They were convicted in various courts across the state according to the state command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA). The 15 convicts were among the 141 suspects arrested for drug abuse/trafficking in the state
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Report: Insurgents kill 20 civilians in Borno
Islamist insurgents killed at least 20 civilians in a northeast Nigerian village, a government-allied vigilante who helped evacuate corpses and a security source said on Wednesday. The militants struck the village of Ngamngam in Borno State, near the border with Niger, on Tuesday, said Bakura Kachallah, a member of the pro-government vigilante group, Civilian Joint […]
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