Nigeria news today headlines update Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Reps Kick Against Customs’ Ban On Fuel Supply To Border Communities
Abuja – The House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to the implementation of a directive by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, that petrol should no longer be supplied to communities within 20-kilometre radius of the land borders. The resolution followed the consideration and adoption of a motion on matters of urgent
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Alleged Corruption: Judge Threatens To Strike Out EFCC Suit Against Diezani
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, threatened to strike out the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) suit against former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, if it failed to have her extradited to Nigeria by March 2020. The EFCC had, on November 11, 2018, filed 13 counts of
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Edo APC Suspends Oshiomhole
Benin – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State has suspended the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, over his role in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party. The decision was taken after the vote of no confidence passed on Oshiomhole by the chairmen of the APC in the
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Supreme Court Orders NNPC To Pay N8.14bn In Damages To Firm
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld its earlier judgment ordering the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay $22.6 million (N8.14 billion) in damages to BCE Consulting Engineers over a failed consultancy service contract. The NNPC through its counsel, approached the Supreme Court seeking a review of the July 5, 2019 judgment over an alleged
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Two Policemen Shot Dead In Bayelsa
Two policemen were on Tuesday shot dead along the Otuogidi community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The suspects carted away the riffles of their victims, creating apprehension in the state few days to the Saturday governorship election. The deceased officers were attacked at a checkpoint close to the Bayelsa State College of
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Court Disqualifies APC Deputy Governorship Candidate
Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday disqualified the All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, from participating in the forthcoming November 16 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State. Justice Ekwo gave the order in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1101/2019, filed on September 18, 2019 by the Peoples
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Outrage As Senate Considers Death Penalty For Hate Speech
Temidayo Akinsuyi; Titilope Joseph;Joy Anigbogu;Samuel Ogidan; Lagos, Abuja / Lagos – Promoters of hate speeches are to die by hanging or face life jail, depending on the degree of the offence. This was the position of a Bill titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches and for other
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Edo Crisis: Nobody Can Force Me Out Of APC — Obaseki
Lagos – Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Tuesday dispelled rumours of his plan to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying nobody could force him out of a party that he was firmly in control of. There were reports that the governor, who has been having a
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Truck Chased By Police Kills 20 People In Adamawa
Yola – More than 20 persons were on Tuesday reportedly crushed to death after a trailer loaded with farm produce overran several tricycles, popularly known as ‘Keke Napep’, at Vunokilang Bridge (Hayin Gada) in Yola, Adamawa State. Residents said the accident was caused by policemen, who were pursuing the truck driver for refusing to give
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Mrs Fayemi: Raising Bar Of Governance Through Women Participation In Ekiti
ADO-EKITI – Ekiti people, particularly the women folks, have continued to savour the gains of the just concluded empowerment programme embarked upon by the wife of the state governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi. Tagged Advocacy Tour And Women Empowerment Programme, the event, which took place in sixteen Local Government Areas of the state, afforded the First […]
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