Latest News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 10th September 2019
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target=_blank>Sexual Reproductive Health: SCI to engage 3,000 husbands of adolescent girls in Katsina
Not fewer than 3,000 husbands of married adolescent girls are to be engaged on Sexual and Reproductive Health, SRH by Save the Children International, SCI to reduce health issues and complications that come with early child marriages in Katsina State.
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target=_blank>Katsina offers free skill acquisition to serving corps member
The Katsina State government has announced to offer free skill acquisition training for serving the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC members deployed to the state.
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target=_blank>DESOPADEC begins town hall meeting ahead of budget preparation
THE Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has kick-started its town hall meetings with the five ethnic groups, under the commission, ahead of its next budget year.
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target=_blank>BREAKING: 9Mobile gains 14, 469 subscribers from big operators in Q2’19 porting activities
By Prince Osuagwu
The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has just released the telecom sector porting activities for the second quarter of 2019, indicating that the 4th telecom operator 9Mobile is gaining tremendous ground with the highest number of subscribers porting into its network at the end of the quarter.
9Mobile also led in quarter one, gaining more subscribers from the bigger networks. According to NBS, the telecom operators which has gone through harrowing times from $1.2 billion loan debacle to losing a major investor and partner Etisalat of UAE and a complicated sales story managed to accumulate a whopping 19,369 subscribers in porting activities in the quarter while just about 4,900 subscribers left its services.
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target=_blank>Breaking: Finally Orji Uzo Kalu speaks, denies report against him
Barely eight hours he was sacked as a senator representing Abia North, by the National and State Assembly election petitions tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, the former governor of the state, Dr Orji Uzo Kalu has denied report making rounds that he sold the entire issue shared capital of his banking group, First International Banking (FIB) Group Limited, The Gambia.
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target=_blank>UK’s PM, Boris Johnson to suspend Parliament as his Brexit plans stall
British lawmakers demanded Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government release officials’ correspondence about plans for Brexit, as the government prepared to suspend Parliament and send rebellious lawmakers home until two weeks before the country is supposed to leave the European Union.
Lawmakers used the remaining hours before the session of Parliament ended to deliver new blows to Johnson’s teetering authority. An opposition-backed measure designed to stop Britain from crashing out of the EU on October 31 without a divorce deal became law after receiving the formal assent of Queen Elizabeth II.
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target=_blank>Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Israel PM says at dramatic press conference
Iran has been developing nuclear weapons at a secret site which it then destroyed in order to hide evidence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed.
According to DailyMail, Netanyahu revealed the existence of the site, which he said is located at Abadeh in central Iran, during a dramatic press conference on Monday.
Pointing to satellite images of the compound, in the central Iranian town of Abadeh, he said Israel uncovered its existence in nuclear archives captured from Iran.
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target=_blank>North Korea to resume nuclear talks with US in late September
North Korea said on Monday it was willing to restart nuclear talks with the United States in late September, but warned that chances of a deal could end unless the United States (US) takes a fresh approach.
North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, agreed in a June 30 meeting with US president, Donald Trump, to reopen working-level talks stalled since their failed February summit in Hanoi, but this has yet to happen in spite of repeated appeals from Washington, Reuters reported.
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target=_blank>Revealed: ‘Shell loses N202m daily to vandals, oil thieves’
Dr Orji Kalu, former governor of Abia and Chief Whip of the Ninth Senate, has denied selling the issued shares capital of his banking group, First International Bank (FIB).
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Apple alters algorithm to less favour own apps ranking
Apple Inc, following antitrust scrutiny in Europe and the United States, has altered the search algorithm for its App Store so that the company’s own apps do not dominate the top positions, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Apple declined to comment on the report, according to Reuters report.
Apple made the tweaks in July, the Times reported. The newspaper performed an analysis of six years of search results that showed that Apple’s own apps ranked first for at least 700 search terms in the store since 2016.
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