Latest News in Nigeria Today Monday 27th July 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Monday 27th July 2020 .
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Edo 2020: APC, PDP trade blames over supporters’ clash
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo on Sunday traded blames over Saturday’s clash among their supporters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that supporters of both parties clashed on Saturday around Ring Road area in Benin, the state capital. The PDP leadership and the National Campaign CouncilRead More
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Funsho Williams: Servant leader worthy of emulation
By Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour Today, 14 years on, we reflect on the brutal assassination of Funsho Williams, one of the foremost indigenous politicians Lagos has produced. Eight years after his assassination, Justice Adebajo released the six suspects accused of his murder most of whom were security attachés and domestic servants of the deceased. Justice Adebajo heldRead More
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Only 6 states viable, as Katsina made N8bn but got N136bn federal allocation
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru The 2019 Annual States Viability Index, ASVI, released on Sunday by Economic Confidential, showed that only six states in the federation are economically viable. The states include Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Kwara, Kaduna and Enugu, while also listing the poor and insolvent states to include Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Bayelsa and Taraba states, basedRead More
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20-ft container falls on bus in Lagos, kills 2
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said two persons died while three were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway. LASEMA Director-General, Dr.+ Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident on Sunday in Lagos, said the dead bodies and injured persons had been taken toRead More
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Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases exceed 40,000, death toll hits 858
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced 555 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus exceeded 40,000 in five months. The NCDC, which made this known on its official twitter handle, also recorded two deaths in the country in the last 24 hours. NCDC said 40,537 casesRead More
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Labour moves against 6% stamp duty on tenancy, lease
By Victor Young Organised labour has rejected recent order by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to property owners and their agents to charge 6 percent Stamp Duty on all tenancy and lease agreements enter into with all leases and remit to the service. Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, in a statement on Sunday,Read More
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E2%80%95-medical-expert/ COVID-19 kills 210 Health workers in Nigeria ― Medical expert
“This is because over 10,000 health workers tested positive for Covid-19 across Africa. 812 tested positive in Nigeria out of which 200 Nigerian health workers and 10 Nigerian doctors have so far been killed by the disease.”
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Why there’s looting in NDDC — Ijaw groups
By Dapo Akinrefon A coalition of Ijaw groups, on Sunday, attributed the alleged looting of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to the failure to put in place the Presidential Monitoring Committee, PMC, in accordance with the NDDC Act. The coalition also insisted that the forensic audit of the NDDC should be commissioned and supervisedRead More
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NSITF Probe: Middle Belt group berates Faleke
By Victor Young The Middle Belt Emancipation Movement, MEM, has described as biased and sentimental statement credited to the former Commissioner for Information in Kogi State, Tom Ohikere on the disagreement between the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and the member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, James Faleke. MEM in a statement, onRead More
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School resumption: FG, states meet next Monday to discuss modalities
By Joseph Erunke ABUJA – A meeting between the federal and state governments to discuss modalities for resumption of schools will hold next week Monday. The meeting which will be presided by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, is to have all state commissioners of education in attendance. An invitation to this effect wasRead More
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