Latest News in Nigeria Today Saturday 5th October 2019
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target=_blank>REVEALED: Anambra Govt uses concrete to patch roads
Reports have revealed that Anambra state government uses concrete to patch roads. But the question is, would the road last? And why is the state government using concrete rather than the usual Asphalt for proper road construction.
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target=_blank>Ortom: I’ll not anoint anybody as my successor
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says he has no plans to anoint anybody as his successor. Ortom, while addressing PDP stakeholders’ on Friday in Makurdi, assured them that he would allow the party to field the most acceptable candidate for the governorship election in 2023.
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target=_blank>Ortom: I’ll not anoint anybody as my successor
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says he has no plans to anoint anybody as his successor. Ortom, while addressing PDP stakeholders’ on Friday in Makurdi, assured them that he would allow the party to field the most acceptable candidate for the governorship election in 2023.
“If someone tells you that I have anointed him as my successor, tell him that he is lying. I will work with any candidate that the party fields in 2023.
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target=_blank>Just in: Presidency shifts extraordinary FEC meeting to Monday
Presidency has on Friday shifted the extraordinary Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting, to Monday. The meeting initially scheduled for tomorrow was shifted around 10: 40pm.
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target=_blank>Oyo NURTW factions resolve crisis, to elect new leaders Oct. 23
Factional leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Oyo State chapter, has resolved the crisis rocking the union and agreed to elect new leaders on Oct.23.
Mr Kayode Ogunyanbi, the National Deputy General Secretary of the union, made this known at the end of the reconciliation meeting, held in Ibadan on Friday.
The meeting was brokered by the state government and stakeholders in the state transport sector, in conjunction with the NURTW national leadership.
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target=_blank>Cardiologist says chronic low blood pressure “very dangerous”
Dr. Okechukwu Anthony, a cardiologist, has said that chronic low blood pressure was dangerous because it rarely manifests obvious symptoms.
Anthony told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Abuja that low blood pressure was a “significant predictor of cognitive decline and the probability of developing dementia”.
According to him, low blood pressure has no regard for age, gender, weight, cardiovascular, kidney or diabetic status.
The cardiologist said that insufficient brain blood flow plays a critical role in the development of dementia, Alzheimer, and, perhaps, even Parkinson diseases.
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target=_blank>Edo govt partners SAP to train teachers coding, web programming
The Edo State Government in partnership German tech giant, SAP and Coder In Africa (Coderina), has commenced training of over 1,700 public school teachers on coding and web programming.
The training is part of workshops across Africa to mark the Africa Code Week. It is also in line with Edo state government’s efforts to leverage Information Communication Technology (ICT), to boost digital literacy skills for secondary school teachers and students across the state.
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target=_blank>ECOWAS Court tasks Nigerians on protection of their rights
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has urged Nigerians to avail themselves of the availability of the court to protect their rights.
A member of the Court, Justice Dupe Atoki gave the advice on Friday at a news conference held in Lagos on the Sensitisation Programme of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.
Atoki said that the reason for sensitisation was because there was a lack of full knowledge of the existence of the ECOWAS Court of Justice and its working.
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target=_blank>Reality TV show, Celebrity Housemates, rebrands for better engagement
Popular reality TV show, ‘Celebrity Housemates’ has re-positioned for a better, qualitative service. The reality show which had only one season has discontinued that particular project.
The company behind the brand, Heartlink Ventures Ltd wants its teeming audience and followers to know about their new sense of direction.
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Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Bolatito Adebola, the spokesperson of Heartlink Group, the mother company of ‘Celebrity Housemates’ said: “The brand wishes to announce a change of focus.
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Akinfenwa’s death, a loss to the progressives’ family —Oyetola
By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has described the death of an elder statesman and former Alliance for Democracy (AD) leader in the Senate, Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa, as not only devastating but another loss to the family of the progressives in Nigeria.
Oyetola, in a statement by his media aide, Ismail Omipidan, commiserated with his immediate family in particular and the progressives’ family in general, saying the late elder statesman died at a time his wise counsel and political experiences were needed most in the polity.
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