Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 25th August 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 25th August 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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COVID-19: The long road to recovery
Fayemi, el-Rufai, Onyeama, Makinde back to work after recovery from COVID-19 Almost six months after Nigeria confirmed its first coronavirus case, the country has recorded over 50,000 cases while over 40,000 cases have been discharged. In this report, WALE ELEGBEDE highlighted some political elite that have recovered from the pandemic. The world …
How FG rescued UNILAG from drift
˜Visitation panel to recommend sanctions –Ministry ˜ASUU: Right signal to other governing councils ˜Soyombo: I wanted to restore peace, stability ˜Stakeholder: FG’s action, right step in right direction INTERVENTION The Federal Government finally intervened in the crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG) by constituting a seven-member special visitation panel to …
Kudos, knocks for Humanitarian Ministry at one
In view of the numerous conflicts in different parts of Nigeria and the hardship, poverty and misery the situation has imposed on the populace, the Federal Government created a special ministry to tackle these challenges. One year down the lane, there are kudos and hard knocks for the minister. DEBORAH OCHENI reports President …
Lawmaker to striking ASUU: Key into IPPIS
The member representing Ezza South/Ikwo Federal Constituency of Abia State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Chinedu Ogah, has called on university lecturers, under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to key into the Federal Government Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) to enable them to receive their salaries. He said that …
Kaduna: One killed as gunmen invade school, abduct JSS3 students
Armed men yesterday invaded Prince Academy in Kaduna and abducted scores of Junior Secondary School (JSS 3) students preparing for their examinations. The gunmen were also said to have abducted some residents of Damba-Kasaya village a community where the school is located. Damba-Kasaya community is located in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. …
Village head, Hisbah commander held for selling one-year-old boy
Muhammad Kabir KANO National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested a Commander of Hisbah, the Fagge village head and a woman identified as Mrs. Loveth for allegedly selling a one-year-old boy. The state Zonal Commandant of NAPTIP, Shehu Umar, told journalists that the Hisbah Commander in …
Attack on IPOB, extra-judicial killing, says Igbo group
An Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Nzuko Umunna, has described the clash between members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and security agents on Sunday at Emene, Enugu State, as extra-judicial killings. The position of the group was made known in a statement issued by its Coordinator, Ngozi Odumuko, and the , Paschal Mbanefor. …
Post-COVID-19: Firm sharpens undergraduates’ technical skills
Worried by the impact of the global Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic on low and middleincome countries with about 75 per cent of young people work in the informal economy with no job security and little or social protection, Nestle Nigeria has restated commitment to empower the young ones. To achieve this objective, the firm …
APC opposes speedy hearing of suit seeking to disqualify Ize-Iyamu
The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday raised opposition to the speedy hearing of a suit seeking the disqualification of its governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, from the September 19, Edo State governorship election. The party in a petition against the trial judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, prayed the Chief …
Kwara pensions board: AbdulRazaq met N21bn backlog of LG gratuities
The backlog of arrears of local government staff gratuities from 2009 in Kwara State is in excess of N21 billion. This was disclosed yesterday by the Executive Secretary, Kwara State Local Government Staff Pension Board, Smaila Oyelowo, while testifying before the retired Justice Matthew Adewara-led panel of inquiry into the alleged diversion of N300 …
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