Nigeria news today headlines : Monday 21st September 2020
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Italy Sees GDP Down 9% This Year, Rising More Than 5% In 2021 – Report
Italy expects its coronavirus-hit economy to grow by more than 5% next year after shrinking 9% in 2020, two government sources told Reuters on Sunday. In April, the government of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the centre-left PD party forecast a fall in gross domestic product of 8% this year and a 2021 rebound of …
Former Novichok Scientist Apologizes To Navalny For Poisoning
A scientist involved in the secret Soviet program to create the Novichok nerve agent has apologized to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is recovering from poisoning in Berlin. Vil Mirzayanov, a chemist who was the first to reveal Novichok’s development, in an interview with Russia’s TV Rain on Saturday evening said he wanted to …
South Africa Roads Agency Urges Toll Decision
The South African National Roads Agency needs the government to decide on the future of electronic tolls in Gauteng province, as the coronavirus cuts its cashflow, the Sunday Times reported. “We’re having to scurry around to ensure our liquidity,” the Johannesburg-based newspaper cited Sanral Chief Executive Officer Skhumbuzo Macozoma as saying. “Until you solve the …
Obaseki’s Victory: Edo People Rejected Bullion Van Democracy – Bode George
LAGOS – Chief Bode George, former deputy national chairman of Peoles Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the people of Edo State for having spoken loud and clear by voting Governor Godwin Obaseki, and rejecting bullion van democracy. George maintained that Edo people had spoken without ambiguity, without equivocal expression. He stressed that they were bold …
Foundation Set For Rally Against Rape In London October 1
ASABA – Mrs. Vera Gold Osagiede, a philanthropist and founder/ CEO of Vera Gold Foundation, has said as part of efforts to end rape in Nigeria and the rest of the World, her foundation has scheduled a date for rally in order to voice against the menace and to also support survivors. Osagiede, a Nollywood …
SS3 Exams To Go Ahead Despite School Building Collapse – Principal
Fears of disruptions in the scheduled National Examination Council (NECO) examinations for Senior Secondary School (SS3) and Junior Secondary students of Excel College, Ejigbo, whose building collapsed on Saturday, have been allayed by the management as very convenient facilities are in place for the remainderof the final papers which start in two weeks. Awingof theschoolbuilding …
New Ohanaeze Leader Must Confront Security Challenges In Igboland – IWA
Diaspora Igbo group, the Igbo World Assembly (IWA), at the weekend, said any potential candidate to be considered for the next President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo must be ready to confront security challenges in Igbo land. The group in a virtual world press conference jointly addressed by its Chairman, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, Vice Chairman, Christian Onuorah, …
Taiwan President Says Drills Show China Is Threat To Region
Two days of Chinese military aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese even more clearly the true nature of China’s government, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday. Multiple Chinese aircraft flew across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait and into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on …
Nigeria’s Woes Self-Inflicted, Not Political – Analyst
LAGOS – A public commentator, Otunba Adejare Adegbenro, has described problems confronting Nigeria as self-inflicted and not political. The concerned political analyst in a statement in Lagos on Saturday, said, “The problems are neither from the All Progressive Congress (APC) nor from the Peoples Demmocratic Party (PDP), but from all of us.” Adegbenro, who is …
Don’t Make EFCC Toothless Bulldog With Another Bill, SERAP Warns Buhari
LAGOS – A Lagos-based organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the proposed executive bill to amend the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC Act, so as not to render the agency toothless bulldog. The organisation in an open letter sent to President Muhammadu Buhari urged him …
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