Latest News in Nigeria Today Saturday 23rd January 2021
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Saturday 23rd January 2021 .
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Akanni challenges Rohr: Prove your worth with home-based players
By Jacob Ajom Former Nigeria international and one-time Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association, Waidi Akanni is an exciting fellow, whose dreams and thoughts are always about football, a sport he started playing early as a youth. He was a member of the 1985 bronze-winning Flying Eagles squad at the FIFA U20 World CupRead More
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Covid curfew fuels fear of rape in DR Congo’s economic capital
For women in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo’s second city, a curfew may help fight the coronavirus, but for many, it comes with a dread of burglary and rape. Residents in DRC’s economic capital have reported a string of housebreaking and sexual assaults, some by armed men in uniform, since the authorities imposed a nightlyRead More
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Kidnappers killed my 6-year-old daughter, cut off her head — Distraught father
•How her 14-year-old brother escaped from abductors •Mastermind of the kidnap well known to us •My motive for visiting victim’s family during new year celebration —Suspect By Ifeanyi Okolie A middle-aged man, Yahaya Ibrahim, from Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi State, has narrated how armed men stormed his house late last year, abducted twoRead More
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Russia: Navalny’s supporters head to protests despite looming crackdown
Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were preparing to rally in dozens of cities across Russia on Saturday even as authorities vowed a crackdown on protesters. Allies of Russia’s leading opposition figure — who was jailed upon returning to Moscow after a near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent — said they would take toRead More
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Nigerian Navy Score card 2020: Arrests 87 vessels, 43 barges, 57speed boats, 393 others
•22 pirate attacks recorded within Nigeria, 44 in GoG •Four hijacked ships rescued by NN By Evelyn Usman In the last 2 decades, piracy and sea robbery within the Golf of Guinea have become a major point of discussion, with the region ranked as one of the most troubled waterways. It is estimated that theRead More
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Biden’s emergence in the shadows of Nigeria’s 2023 contest
By Emmanuel Aziken The inauguration of Senator Joseph Biden as the 46th president of the United States of America came at a momentous point in the history of the country. It came when a plague with a yet controverted pathway was ravishing the country. So remarkable has been the COVID-19 pandemic that for his inauguration,Read More
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COVID-19: Ganduje dumps option of closing schools
By Bashir Bello – Kano Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has on Friday dumped the option of closing down schools as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ganduje said the closure of schools amid COVID-19 prevalence, in the second wave phase, could cause another tragedy of taking the society back again, while theRead More
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Patients battle covid ‘enemy’ in Nigeria second wave
“Attention, isolation zone,” warns a bright orange notice at the entrance to the main coronavirus treatment centre in Lagos, Nigeria’s and Africa’s most populous city. Huge black gates separate the centre at the Yaba Mainland Hospital, which takes 20 seriously ill patients every day, from the hustle and bustle of the city, Nigeria’s economic capital.Read More
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We saw many dead bodies: Gory tale of kidnap victim from Edo forest where villains are rewarded for killing policemen
…Reveals signs, signals in kidnappers’ den, near Nigerian road where they strike twice daily …They gave us tramadol, warned we would die like others if we didn’t take it …They didn’t rape women but beat them, sometimes to death …Ability to speak Hausa language helped me Herdsmen: ‘We’ll kill all policemen, take over Edo State’Read More
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Man, 52, bags 3 months community service for stealing phones
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 52-year-old man, Usman Abdullahi, to three months Community Service for stealing two Infinix phones. Abdullahi, whose address was not provided, was sentenced on a one count charge of stealing. The Magistrate, Mr Dehinde Dipeolu, sentenced Abdullahi after he pleaded guilty of the charge of stealing, and beggedRead More
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