Nigeria news today headlines update Sunday 22nd September 2019
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target=_blank>Yemen Rebels Vow To End attacks On Saudi Arabia
Yemen’s Houthis rebels said late Friday night that they were calling a halt on drone and missile attacks in Saudi Arabia. Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi’s supreme political council, said he hoped “the gesture would be answered by a stronger gesture” from the Saudis. He added the group is waiting for a “positive response”
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target=_blank>Konta To Miss WTA Championships
Johanna Konta will not play any tournaments in Asia this autumn and so will not be able to qualify for the season-ending WTA Championships. The British number one has withdrawn from the China Open in Beijing because of “slight knee pain” and did not enter next week’s lucrative tournament in Wuhan in China. She is
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target=_blank>Family Stranded In France After Car Keys Fall In lake
A couple have been stranded while on holiday in France after their car keys fell into a pedal-boat lake. Angharad Carrington-Edmunds and her husband Jack have been stuck in the north of France since Monday with their two young daughters.Locked in the car were their possessions and cash. Their four month-old’s christening had to be
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target=_blank>Missing Zimbabwe Doctor Found
A Zimbabwean doctors’ union leader who disappeared during a pay strike has been found alive, his union and police said on Friday. The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) said, however, it would press on with its strike action, viewed as a test of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s willingness to tolerate dissent in a country tainted by
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target=_blank>UNICEF Lauds Girl-Child Educatio
he United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Saturday described its Girls Education Project, Phase 3 (GEP3), being implemented in Bauchi, Niger, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara states as “a huge success”. UNICEF Chief of Education, Euphrates Wose, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Birnin Kebbi that the GEP3 was designed to get more
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target=_blank>Gov. Bello Encourages Peaceful Coexistence
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has enjoined Nigerians to live in peace and harmony irrespective of religious, ethnic and class backgrounds Bell also urged them to eschew violence for the progress and development of the country. He made the call while addressing a Peace Walk organised by ActionAid Nigeria in partnership with Participation Initiative for
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target=_blank>Coffee Spill Forces Commercial Plane To Make Emergency Landing
A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report on Thursday. The Airbus A330-243 flying to Cancun, Mexico, from Frankfurt, landed at Shannon in Ireland, Reuters reports. With the hot
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target=_blank>Osaka To Face Pavlyuchenkova
World number four Naomi Osaka showed no signs of fatigue as she powered past Belgium’s Elise Mertens 6-4 6-1 in her second match of the day to reach the Pan Pacific Open final on Saturday. Osaka was forced to double up after persistent showers had washed out her quarter-final against Yulia Putintseva on Friday and
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target=_blank>Ousted Tunisian President Ben Ali Dies In Exile
Tunisia’s Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow in a 2011 uprising triggered the “Arab Spring” revolutions, died in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, days after a free presidential vote in his homeland. His funeral will take place on Friday in Saudi Arabia, his family lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters. “It is the end
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ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack In Burkina Faso That Killed 24 Soldiers
Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks against the Burkina Faso military in recent months, the SITE website that tracks militant attacks reported on Thursday. The attack took place on Aug. 20 in Koutougou, in the country’s northern Soum province. Militants killed 24 Burkinabe soldiers and injured seven others, Reuters reports. A […]
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