Nigeria news today headlines update Tuesday 18th December 2018
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target=_blank>Police Launch Manhunt For Killers Of Anambra Community Leader
The Police Command in Anambra has launched a manhunt to apprehend killers of Angus Okoye, 48, a community leader at Isuanocha in Awka North Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Awka. Mohammed said the Dunukofia Police Division received
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target=_blank>Prada Apologizes After Products Spark Accusations Of Racism
Italian fashion label Prada has said it will set up an advisory council on diversity issues after being forced to pull monkey-like keychain figurines from its shelves over accusations of racism. The so-called “Pradamalia” creatures — featured prominently in the window display of its Soho store in New York — sparked outrage for their exaggerated
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target=_blank>Migrants Entitled To Fundamental Human Rights—Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says migrants as human beings are entitled to their fundamental human rights. Buhari expressed this view while declaring open the 2018 National Migration Dialogue at the State House Banquet Hall, on Monday in Abuja. The dialogue was orgainsed by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) in collaboration
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target=_blank>White House Closer To Partial Shutdown With Wall Demand
Pushing the government to the brink of a partial shutdown, the White House is insisting that Congress provide $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border despite lawmaker resistance from both parties. Without a resolution, parts of the federal government will shut down at midnight Friday. President Donald Trump kept up the pressure
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target=_blank>Niger Govt Spends N5.5bn On Water Works – Commissioner
Niger Government says it has spent N5.5 billion on procurement and installation of electro-mechanical equipment for adequate supply of water in major towns of the state. Alhaji Mamman Musa, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, disclosed this during the 2019 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship election campaign/stakeholders briefing organised by Abubakar Bello Campaign Organisation (ASB)
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target=_blank>Israel steps up West Bank raids as support for Hamas rises
The rival Fatah party rules the West Bank but the territories have witnessed the worst clashes between security forces of the Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and protesters over the week. On Friday, the West Bank experienced military raids of extraordinary proportions compared to recent years after protests were held in Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron
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target=_blank>Bayelsa Tanker Accident: FRSC Evacuates Wreckage, Restores Traffic Flow
The Bayelsa Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has cleared the wreckage following Sunday’s petrol tanker collision with four tricycles and a Toyota Hilux on Mbiama-Yenagoa Expressway. Mr Ikechukwu Igwe, Bayelsa Sector Commander, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that FRSC had restored normal traffic flow on theexpressway
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target=_blank>Slowly But Steadily, North Korea Grows
From nuclear and missile tests and dangerous rhetoric about mutual annihilation in 2017, events on the Korean Peninsula shifted to summit meetings and declarations of cooperation and denuclearisation in 2018. One explanation for this radical change is that US President Donald Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on North Korea was successful and Kim Jong-un bowed to
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target=_blank>Ogun Govt To Spend N41.8bn On Road Construction In 2019
Ogun Government on Monday said it would spend N41. 8 billion on road construction across the three senatorial districts of the state in 2019. The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, said this while defending his ministry’s 2019 budget proposal before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation. Adegbite said the state
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Nollywood Star To Attract Investment To Rivers State
P/Harcourt – Recognising Rivers State government’s focus to provide quality road network in all the local government areas of the state, popular Nollywood actress, Matilda Gogo Lambert, said she will complement the state government efforts by using the entertainment industry to attract positive investment to the state. Matilda Gogo Lambert who hails from Andoni local government […]
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