Breaking News in Nigeria Today Monday 2nd March 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Monday 2nd March 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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FG disqualifies 600 firms in race for gas flare contracts
SHIFT DPR extends bid submission due date of the request for proposal by six weeks. T he Federal Government has disqualifued applications by 600 firms as the race for multi- million dollars gas flare monetisation contracts hots up. The announcement for the contract was made through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for 45 sites where foreign and local oil firms flared 320 billion cubic feet of gas in one year. This, a document obtained from the DPR showed at the weekend, came as race…
Aviation: 37 airlines record 41,963 cases of missing, delayed luggage
CONFLICT Nigerian passengers have had to battle some airlines over time for not checking in their luggage A t least, 41,963 of luggage belonging to passengers were declared missing or delayed among 37 international and local airlines in Nigeria’s aviation industry between January and December 2019. However, foreign airlines were the major culprits in the baggage missing incident as 41, 473 luggage belonging to passengers on international routes were delayed and missing, while the other 495 incidents occurred among eight out of nine domestic carriers in the…
Insecurity not peculiar to Nigeria alone, says Uzodinma
G overnor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has said the rising state of insecurity being witnessed in the country was not peculiar to Nigeria, but a global problem. The governor made this known yesterday in Abuja during the First Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of 2020 with the theme: ‘The word of God: A Lamp to my feet and a light to my path.’ Uzodinma, who warned against every act of politicising the security situation in the country, maintained that there was the need for collaborative efforts…
APC: Imo, Cross River, Ondo, others to submit petitions to NRC
F actions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo and Cross River States are among those to submit memoranda to the party’s National Reconciliation Committee (NRC). Also to submit petitions to the Committee are the suspended National Vice Chairman, North West, Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, factions of APC in Edo, Ondo and Kwara states. While the National Vice Chairman, North West, Inuwa Abdul-Kadir and the factional Imo State APC Chairman, Chief Dan Nwafor and some others would submit petitions against the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Cross…
No virus’ll come near you, Adeboye prays for members
A ppreciating God and praying for congregants at the end of the 50 days fasting and prayers on Saturday, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, assured members that no virus would come near them. His prayer is not unconnected with the outbreak of Coronavirus, in which an Italian has been tested positive in Lagos. Praying in a video posted on his verified social media handles, Adeboye said: “By the way, I want to assure you that no…
Why PDP shouldn’t sideline its elders, by Bode George
Chief Olabode George is a former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview, he speaks on recent developments in the polity as well as his rumoured presidential ambition. Wale Elegbede reports The national leadership of your party said you erroneously misinterpreted the actions of the National Working Committee (NWC) with respect to the election of the Lagos State executive committee of the PDP. How will you react to that? The person who said that doesn’t know what he is talking about. I…
NCAA gives airlines guidelines to track passengers with COVID-19
N igerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it had put measures in place to make airlines assist with the tracking of passengers who might have come in contact with ill persons and other measures the National Surveillance Systems required. The NCAA Director-General (DG), Capt. Musa Nuhu, who disclosed this in a statement, yesterday, said the measures adopted to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the country through the airports were in accordance to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and World Health Organisation (WHO)…
Coronavirus: Delta locks down Warri, Koko, Sapele, Oghara, Asaba ports
D elta State government has beefed up security at the Warri, Koko, Sapele, Oghara and Asaba sea and airports as a proactive measure to prevent the spread of the infectious coronavirus disease that hit Lagos state last week. The state maintained that anyone caught will be detained, isolated and observed under intensive care. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Onoyen, supported by his counterpart in Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, and experts from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) during a sensitisation briefing in…
Stop playing politics with insecurity, Christian leaders tell FG
C hristian leaders drawn from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), have warned the Federal Government to desist from playing politics with religion and insecurity in the country. Speaking at the first 2020 plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) yesterday in Abuja, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, harped on the need for Nigerian leaders to work together for the common good irrespective of their religious affiliation. Kaigama warned that permanent solutions and…
NDDC harps on quality, standards for indigenous contractors
T he Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has stressed the need to enhance the capacities of indigenous contractors to ensure that quality and standards were not compromised in the execution of the commission’s projects. This was stated by the Executive Director of Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, in an interaction with newsmen during a three-day tour of completed emergency projects in Imo and Akwa Ibom states. Ojougboh, who was accompanied by the Technical Adviser to the Acting Managing Director, Engr. Ikechukwu Ugwuegede; the Acting Director, UIDW, Frederick…
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