Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Friday 9th August 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>Standard Bank mulls W’Africa expansion
Africa’s largest bank by assets, Standard Bank, is considering entering new markets – possibly via acquisitions – as its strategy to focus its resources on the continent continues to pay off. In recent years, Standard Bank has been working to unwind a failed bid to become a global emerging markets lender, and has ruled out
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target=_blank>Former New Prudential Bank MD jailed over N195m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of Adetunji Abudu, a former Managing Director, New Prudential Mortgage Bank Limited, to two years imprisonment for N195 million fraud, the anti-graft agency announced yesterday. According to the EFCC, the convict was arraigned before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court
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target=_blank>Imam urges Muslims to fast tomorrow
Chief Imam of Young Muslim Brothers and Sisters (YOUMBAS), Ogun state and Republic of Benin chapter, Imam Najeemdeen Yusuf Aduralongba, has urged Muslims who are not in Mecca for pilgrimage to observe fasting tomorrow, Saturday, corresponding to the Day of Arafat. Aduralongba who noted that fasting on this day is not compulsory, maintained that this
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target=_blank>Chinese trade data calms volatile global markets
Stronger-than-expected, Chinese export data helped push global stock markets higher yesterday following a volatile week that had investors scrambling for safety due to fears of a worldwide economic pull back. Investors were encouraged by data showing Chinese exports rose 3.3 per cent in July from a year earlier, beating an expected decline of two per
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target=_blank>Sowore’s arrest and the DSS as political police
The Department of State Services (DSS) cannot be accused of being fair-handed and unprejudiced. It has always been the political police of the existing regime. I recall in 2014 when agents of the service invaded the offices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in search of incriminating materials; hounded the staff of the party and
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target=_blank>EDHA crisis: Can Obaseki run the gauntlet?
The aphorism by the Yoruba that “whoever does something that is unusual will experience a consequence that is unusual” perfectly mirrors Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s self-inflicted political bind. Having stirred the hornets’ nest with the June 17, 2019 controversial inauguration of the State House of Assembly, a contraption that bears
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target=_blank>Sports need policy template under new minister
President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term in office on May 29. There are high expectations in all spheres of Nigerian life that things should generally turn better. The first term recorded some hiccups as most of the ministers appointed by Buhari spent the entire term untouched. The former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, is
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target=_blank>65,000 Nigerian pilgrims move to Muna as Hajj rites begin
Not less than 65,000 Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the 2019 Hajj have assembled at the tent city of Muna as rites for the holy pilgrimage begin. This came as Nigeria recorded a shortfall of about 30, 000 on the quota it secured from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the 2019 operations. National Hajj
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target=_blank>Youths seek changes in global employment policies
More than 200 young change makers from 65 countries including Nigeria have issued a call for a range of “systematic changes” in youth employment policies, noting that “business as usual is not working for youth.” They issued the recommendations at the end of the three-day ILO Global Youth Employment Forum. The event held in Abuja
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OAAN condemns obscene outdoor parade
The Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN) has condemned the viral video on social media of a queer display of semi-nude women in an outdoor Mobile advertising truck around the Lekki/Ikoyi toll gate this weekend. A statement issued by the association and signed by its President, Mr. Emmanuel Ajufo, said that OAAN did not subscribe […]
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