Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Monday 4th November 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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NLC to Assemblies: Impeach govs who fail to pay minimum wage
T he Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called on state Houses of Assembly to impeach any governor who refuses to pay the new minimum wage of N30,000. It also urged the Federal Government to take actions against employers who would not pay the new wage. New Telegraph recalls that although the Nigerian Governors’
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Senate summons CBN over different exchange rates for projects
T he Senate Committee on Finance has summoned the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to explain the exchange rates it used for three key projects under the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF). The projects are being funded to the tune of several billions of naira by the Nigeria Sovereign
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Obla: Osinbajo persecuting me because of Buhari
T he embattled and wanted Chairman of the dissolved Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has said that he is being persecuted by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for his loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari. Obla, who stated this in a letter to President Buhari, alleged that some principal members
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More hardship ahead as border closure extends till 2020
DSS: Operation has frustrated arms smuggling, terrorism E xpectation that fast approaching end of year festivities would compel the Federal Government to open closed borders across the country for business has been dashed as President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of closure till January 2020. A circular sighted by New Telegraph, which
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2023 Presidency: We’ve not decided on zoning formula –PDP
T he Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that it has not decided on where its candidate for the 2023 presidential election would come from. This is unlike in 2015 when the opposition party, immediately it lost the presidential election, said the northern part of the country would produce its candidate in 2019.
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DSS: Border closure has frustrated arms smuggling, terrorism
T he Federal Government’s decision to close land borders has successfully checked cross-border movements of suspected terrorists and other criminal elements likely to undermine national security. The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Bichi, made the declaration over the weekend in Abuja, in response to criticisms trailing the development. This
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12 banks post N704.75bn profit in nine months
I f their results for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2019, are anything to go by, Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) appear to be faring much better, defying the country’s sluggish economy compared with their counterparts in other sectors of the economy. New Telegraph’s analysis of the nine months 2019 results of 12 DMBs, for
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Oshiomhole: Obaseki’s govt hired 1,000 thugs to boo me
N ational Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday fired back at the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, accusing his government of hiring political thugs and deploying same to boo him at last Saturday’s convocation ceremony of Edo University, Iyamho. The accusation was in response to
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FG guarantees crude oil feedstocks, offtakes to Dangote Refinery
T he crude oil feedstock and offtake dynamics in Nigeria have been altered by the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which yesterday secured the Federal Government guarantee for the schemes. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, who gave this hint yesterday when he led a high-powered delegation on a tour
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Alleged N68m fraud: Two school feeding programme officials arrested – ICPC
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has announced the arrest of two officials of the Social Investment Programme in Kogi State, over allegations of fraud to the tune of N68,097,053. Spokesperson for the ICPC, Mrs. Rasheedat Okoduwa, who made the disclosure in a statement yesterday, said the arrest followed the ongoing […]
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