Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 18th June 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Thursday 18th June 2020 .
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Trump says police ‘not treated fairly’ after latest race shooting
Donald Trump said Wednesday that US police have “not been treated fairly” and appeared to defend a white officer charged with the murder of a black man. Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe was charged with murder Wednesday for shooting African American Rayshard Brooks in the back, and aggravated the case by kicking the 27-year-old asRead More
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PHOTOS: Guinness street, Agege, flooded as a result of rain
Guinness street in Agege was flooded as a result of rains Photo: Abosede Adelaja vanguard
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Desertification: Nigeria may partner UN on management of sand, dust storms —Minister
Says 35% of country’s total land area threatened by desertification By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government disclosed on Thursday that it was considering entering into a partnership with the United Nations on the management of sand and dust storms. The government said it was also into collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation,Read More
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Katsina Protest: CSO condemns arrest of Sharif, demands immediate release
Tasks Buhari on weeding out bandits, others By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Concerned Nigerians, CN, Wednesday, condemned the arrest of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), Nastura Sharif over Katsina protest by the Nigeria Police Force and demanded his immediate release.Read More
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Insecurity: Nigerians have right to talk, Sultan tells FG
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar 111, yesterday told the Federal Government that Nigerians have a right to express their feelings over the spate of killings in the country, especially in the north.
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APC in disarray as 3 acting chairmen emerge in 3 hrs
THE leadership crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, took a melodramatic twist as three persons, within three hours, laid claim to national chairmanship of the party, in an acting capacity.
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Oladipo Akinkugbe, outstanding medical scholar, drops the stethoscope
If ever there was the ideal physician, it was the late Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Professor Oladiapo Olujimi Akinkugbe, the foremost Nigerian Professor of Medicine at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan.
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New electricity tariff, VAT rate to sustain upward pressure on prices
Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose for the ninth consecutive months to 12.4 percent in May from 12.34 percent in April, the highest in 25 months, with analysts projecting that the upward trend will persist, driven by commencement of the new electricity tariff and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as the new planting season.
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Reps probe N494bn alleged school-feeding funds fraud
The House of Representatives, yesterday, begun probe of over N494 billion budgeted from inception and the identity of the nine million pupils who benefited from the school feeding programme initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2016.
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Herdsmen Attacks: Anambra to establish Forest Guards
WORRIED by the space of criminal activities in the state, especially, the murderous activities of the rogue herdsmen roaming about in many communities in the state, Anambra State Government has taken steps to form Forest Guards.
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