Latest News in Nigeria Today Sunday 8th September 2019
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target=_blank>550 Pilgrims escape death at Minna airport
No fewer than 550 pilgrims from Niger who performed this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia on Saturday escaped death at the Minna International Airport as the Max Airline plane conveying them back to Nigeria skidded off the runway.
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target=_blank>Be patient with Gov. Ortom, Benue PDP Chairman appeals to pensioners
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in Benue, Mr John Ngbede, has appealed to pensioners in the state to be patient with the Gov. Samuel Ortom-led administration over their outstanding pension and gratuities.
Ngbede, who made the appeal at a press conference held on Saturday in Makurd said that government was making frantic efforts to clear the arrears of their pension and gratuities.
He said that part of government’s commitment to addressing the issue of pension and gratuities in the state was the constitution of Pensions Commission by the governor.
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target=_blank>Hajj: 550 pilgrims escape death at Minna airport
No fewer than 550 pilgrims from Niger who performed this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia on Saturday escaped death at the Minna International Airport as the Max Airline plane conveying them back to Nigeria skidded off the runway.
According to an authoritative source at the airport who pleaded anonymity, the incident occurred at about 5 a.m. on Saturday.
He said that the aircraft, a Boeing 744 with registration number 5N/DBK, developed a technical fault which resulted in its forced landing.
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target=_blank>Breaking: Delta Petition Tribunal: I won Delta South Senatorial election, Uduaghan insists
CANDIDATE of the All Progressives Congress, APC for Delta South Senatorial district in the 2019 general election, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has picked holes in the Election Petition Tribunal ruling which nullified the victory of Senator James Manager in the February 23, National Assembly polls, insisting that he won the election.
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target=_blank>Be patient with Gov. Ortom, Benue PDP Chairman appeals to pensioners
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in Benue, Mr John Ngbede, has appealed to pensioners in the state to be patient with the Gov. Samuel Ortom-led administration over their outstanding pension and gratuities.
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target=_blank>Igbos in Zamfara laud Gov. Matawalle for tackling insecurity
The Eze Igbo of Zamfara, Chief Egbuna Obijiaku, on Saturday commended Gov. Bello Matawalle for tackling the security challenges in the state.
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target=_blank>Igbo in Zamfara laud Gov. Matawalle for tackling insecurity
The Eze Igbo of Zamfara, Chief Egbuna Obijiaku, on Saturday commended Gov. Bello Matawalle for tackling the security challenges in the state.
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target=_blank>You cannot hide from God
THE means of communicating with God Almighty is through prayer. People expect God to respond to prayers positively by making them come to reality.
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target=_blank>Edo residents back Obaseki’s restoration of value-driven governance, projects
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has been applauded for prioritising infrastructure and human capital development projects that are geared towards building a virile and active workforce in the state and restoring value-driven governance.
In separate statements, a cross-section of residents in the state said they are proud of the state government’s achievements in office, noting that the projects bring back nostalgia of what obtained in the old Mid-Western Region and Bendel State, forerunners to the present Edo State, where development was uttermost in the plans and programmes of the government.
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Xenophobia: Adeboye, Okonkwo caution against retaliation
GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye and his counterpart from The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM, Bishop Mike Okonkwo have passionately pleaded with Nigerians to exercise restraint in the face of provocative xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa and avoid the temptation to retaliate.
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