
Nigeria news today headlines update Saturday 7th September 2019
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target=_blank>Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom To Step Down
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom will step down after five years. Wallstrom has informed Prime Minister Stefan Lofven that she wants to leave the government in the near future to spend more time with her family, the government said in an emailed statement on Friday, Bloomberg reports. Wallstrom was appointed foreign minister after Sweden’s general
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target=_blank>Knife-Wielding Palestinian Teen Arrested In Hebron
Border Police on Friday arrested a Palestinian teenager carrying a knife near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron. The 15-year-old raised the suspicions of officers, who spotted the knife after asking the suspect to lift up his shirt. The Palestinian, a resident of the northern West Bank city of
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target=_blank>Two Remanded For ‘Destroying SON Seal, Stealing Substandard Cables’
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded two men who allegedly broke into a sealed warehouse and stole substandard electric cables confiscated by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). The welders are: Chukwuma Nwodo, 31, of No. 8 Tobi Close, Mosafejo, Ojo-Alaba, Lagos and Abor Ikechukwu, 21, of 1, Collins Street, Alaba International
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target=_blank>Antitrust Probe Launched Into Facebook
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday announced that eight U.S. states and the District of Columbia have launched an investigation into social media giant Facebook over ”possible antitrust violations”. “Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect consumers. I am proud to be leading a bipartisan
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target=_blank>Lebanon Will Protect Itself Against Any Attack – President Aoun
President Michel Aoun says Lebanon has a legitimate right to fight off any act of aggression threatening its territorial integrity, warning that the Israeli regime will bear all the consequences in such a case. Aoun also emphasized Lebanon’s adherence to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against
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target=_blank>Two Months After Engagement, He Wants To Call Off Our Wedding
The government demolished my shop two months after our engagement and I had to start over. I told my man to help me with capital, but he said he only has money for our wedding, that he can give me to start my business, and anytime I get it back, we will get married. I
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target=_blank>Abuja Man Sentenced To 6 Weeks In Prison For Botched Theft
A Karshi Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced a man, Jerald Thomas, to six weeks in prison for attempting to break into a shop. The convict, who works at a carwash business and resides in Kugbo, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to the charges bordering on criminal trespass, mischief and attempt to commit an
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target=_blank>#WalkTheTalk: CVL Picks September 21 Date
Walking, they say, is good for the heart; but walking for a cause is better for a soul and walking for a cause is what Centre For Values In Leadership (CVL) is calling upon Nigerians to do. CVL is the foundation set up by Prof. Pat Utomi, a Nigerian professor of political economy and management
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target=_blank>On Ihedioha’s ‘I Was Elected To Do The Right Things And To Do Things Right’
Recently, the governor of Imo State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha CON, KSC, restated that he was elected by the people of Imo State to do the right things as well as to do things right. I had once upon a time clarified the difference between doing right things and doing things right. I’m
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Tailor Arrested For Alleged Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl
A 19-year-old tailor, Adebowale Eshinlokan, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl. The police charged Eshinlokan, who lives at Ajah area of Lagos, with defilement, pleaded not guilty. Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi, who ordered the police to send the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP) for […]
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