Breaking News in Nigeria Today Saturday 14th August 2021
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Saturday 14th August 2021 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Coast clear as APC resolves lingering crisis
As political activities start to build up towards the 2023 general elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress might just have cleared one major hurdle with the endorsement of the Caretaker Committee led by Governor Mai Malu Buni of Yobe State by his fellow APC governors under the banner of the Progressives Governors Forum amid apprehensions
Nigeria needs more than Spartan father figure to pull from the brink –Ladi Thompson
Rev Ladi Thompson has expressed sadness over the political and economic situation of the country as well as the state of insecurity. He said that the country needs more than a Spartan father figure to pull from the brink, saying that Nigerian politicians will be the undoing of the country. Thompson, who is also a
Suspension: Student sues Ekiti govt, others, demands N15m damages
A JSS1 female student of Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Ado Ekiti, Gift Agenoisa, has sued the Ekiti State government, demanding N15 million damages for breach of fundamental rights. The student headed to court after suspension from school over alleged indiscipline and assault on teachers by her parents. In a suit number HAD/01/ CR/2021 and sworn
IPPIS has impoverished our members, SSANU laments
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, yesterday lamented that the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) has further impoverished it members in the university system Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, National President of SSANU, who made this assertion in Benin, Friday, at the 2nd Regular Zonal Executive Council meeting of SSANU,
2023: Tinubu Support Organisation unfolds grassroots mobilisers
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the Lagos State chapter of the Tinubu Support Organisation, (TSO), has inaugurated various directorates and directors to mobilse Nigerians from the grassroots for the actualisation of the former governor of Lagos State quest to be president of Nigeria. The group also said that the best man to succeed President
Ortom’s body language shows I can run for governorship in 2023 – Dep. gov
Benue State Deputy Governor, Engr. Benson Abounu has said that his ambition to succeed Governor Samuel Ortom in 2023 may have been sealed as the governor’s body language shows his dreams will be a reality. Engr. Abounu who stated this in an interview in his office said his principal (governor Ortom) had given him the
Oil prices fall for second day
The Brent benchmark oil price fell for a second day on Friday, albeit holding above $70 a barrel, after the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned demand growth for crude is slowing sharply owing to the spread of coronavirus variants. Brent crude was down 15 cents, or 0.2 per cent, at $71.16 a barrel by 09.31am
Court orders forfeiture of N241m diverted from office of Buhari’s aide
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of N241 milion allegedly diverted from the office of the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to the Federal Government. The judge equally ordered the forfeiture of Real Tower Centre Shopping
NARD strike: Ngige drags doctors to industrial court
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has formally handed over the trade dispute between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria for adjudication. The transmission was done on Thursday, after which a copy was sent to NARD and the Federal Ministry
NGX: Investors inject N12.6bn in equities in one week
Turnover in the equities market grew by 54 percent to N12. 59billion in the week ended August 13, 2021. Investors traded 1.61billion units of shares in 18,622 deals as against 989.6million shares valued at N8.18billion the previous week.. The Financial Services Industry (measured by volume) led the activity chart with 584.793 million shares valued at
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