Latest News in Nigeria Today Sunday 21st June 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Sunday 21st June 2020 .
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Enugu Speaker orders shutdown of state’s Assembly Complex over COVID-19 fears
Mr Edward Ubos, Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, has ordered for the total shutdown and fumigation of the assembly complex. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Communication, Mr Jeff Mbah on Saturday in Enugu. Mbah said that Ubosi gave the order as aRead More
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‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills skywatchers in Africa, Asia
Arcing eastward across Africa and Asia, it reached “maximum eclipse” — with a perfect solar halo around the Moon — over Uttarakhand, India near the Sino-Indian border at 12:10 local time (0640 GMT). More spectacular, but less long-lived: the exact alignment of the Earth, Moon and Sun was visible for only 38 seconds. In Nairobi,Read More
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Edo PDP youths kick over waiver for Obaseki
The Youth and Women wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo chapter, on Saturday kicked against the waiver granted Gov. Godwin Obaseki by the national leadership of the party. The waiver was to enable the governor who just defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state into the main opposition PDPRead More
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Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases near 20,000 as NCDC announces 661 new cases
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases have reached 19,808 as the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, announced 661 new cases on Saturday night. The Center also announced that 19 deaths were recorded in the country in last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 506. “On the 20th of June 2020, 661 new confirmed casesRead More
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Five things to know about Malawi
Malawi, which holds presidential polls on June 23 after its 2019 vote was cancelled, is a small, poor southern African country where people are largely dependent on agriculture and its enormous lake for their livelihoods. – One-fifth water – The country is landlocked but around a fifth of its surface area is covered by water,Read More
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Embattled Ilaro polytechnic SUG president threatens to commit suicide
By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta The embattled Students’ Union Government (SUG) President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Ogun state, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji who was arrested by men of the state police command for alleged cultism on February 9, 2020 has threatened to commit suicide. Olatunji who was arrested alongside Olarewaju Taiwo in a suicideRead More
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3 fuel tankers collide, consumed in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway inferno
The three fuel tankers on fire on Kara Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. By Bose Adelaja Fuel tanker fire consumed three articulated vehicles that collided on Sunday, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The incident was recorded at about 2.18a.m. on Kara Bridge, inward Lagos, when an articulated truck laden with 33,000 litres of petrol crashed into the other articulatedRead More
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Bayero University loses Deputy Vice Chancellor, Haruna Wakili
By Bashir Bello – Kano The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Bayero University, Kano, Professor Haruna Wakili is dead. He died at the age of 60 years. The University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Muhammad Yahuza Bello confirmed the death in a statement by its Secretary, Information and Publication, Comrade Lamara Garba. He said the deceased died on Saturday morningRead More
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Lockdown: Unlike Jesus, pro-churches’ lockdown pastors are afraid of death — Bishop Ighele
Bishop Charles Ighele is the General Superintendent of the Holy Spirit Mission (aka Happy Family Center). Ighele speaks on the continued closedown of churches and effects of lockdown.
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OBASEKI’S EXIT FROM APC: This is Nigerian politics
Recent developments ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State leave no one in doubt of the generally accepted saying that in politics ‘there are no permanent friends nor permanent foes, but permanent interest.’
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