
Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 16th July 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Thursday 16th July 2020 .
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Ondo: APC screening appeal committee clears 12 aspirants
By Omeiza Ajayi The All Progressives Congress, APC, said its governorship nomination Screening Appeal Committee for the Ondo State Governorship Primary Election has cleared 12 aspirants for its July 20 Primary Election. Deputy Spokesman of the Party, Mr Yekini Nabena, who disclosed this in a statement late-Wednesday said the committee has submitted its report to theRead More
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Ondo: APC Screening Appeal C’ttee clears 12 aspirants
By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The All Progressives Congress APC said its governorship nomination Screening Appeal Committee for the Ondo State Governorship Primary Election has cleared 12 aspirants for its July 20 Primary Election. Deputy Spokesman of the Party, Mr. Yekini Nabena who disclosed this in a statement late-Wednesday said the committee has submitted itsRead More
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China’s economy bounces back from pandemic contraction
China saw forecast-beating economic growth in the second quarter after a record contraction in the previous three months, as businesses cautiously returned to normality after strict lockdowns across the country. The figures released Thursday follow a string of data showing the world’s number two economy slowly emerging from the outbreak, and should provide hope toRead More
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Mandela’s daughter Zindzi tested positive for virus
Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, tested positive for Covid-19 the day she died. She died in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday morning at the age of 59. Her son Zondwa Mandela told public broadcaster SABC that it isRead More
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Oil prices rise on account of JMMC 107% output cut compliance
By Udeme Akpan Barely, a few hours after the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its non-OPEC allies, popularly known as OPEC+, had put conformity to their output cut in June 2020 at 107 per cent, oil prices have recorded a marginal increase in the global market.Read More
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E2%80%95-okonjo-iweala/ WTO under me ‘ll bring shared prosperity ― Okonjo-Iweala
Emma Ujah Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and frontrunner for the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has declared her plan to lead a global trade organisation that would bring about shared prosperity to all members. In her statement to the General Council, Wednesday, Okonjo-Iweala said: “We must haveRead More
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Nigeria records 643 new cases of COVID-19
By Chioma Obinna Nigeria, on Wednesday, recorded another 643 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with six deaths bringing the total number to 34, 259. According to the daily situation report of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, no new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. ALSO READ: Tokyo Governor wantsRead More
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Everybody in NDDC board should be removed — Prof Sagay
CHAIRMAN of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACA, Prof Itse Sagay, SAN, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack every member of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Interim Management Committee, IMC.
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Magu gets bail as FG suspends 12 EFCC directors
Suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, was yesterday granted bail by the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential panel investigating allegations levelled against him by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN.
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United labour movement imminent, as leaders of NLC, ULC meet
By Victor Ahiuma-Young THERE are strong indications that the crisis and division in Nigerian labour movement in the wake of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, delegates’ conference of March 2015, may come to an end today (Thursday) and a united NLC announced. Recall that following the disputed 2015 delegates’ conference, which produced Ayuba Wabba of MedicalRead More
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