Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 27th June 2019
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target=_blank>University of Ibadan matriculates 6,000 students
The University of Ibadan on Wednesday held a joint matriculation ceremony for more than 6,000 students of the regular and distance learning modes of study.
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target=_blank>Middle Belt Forum blasts Ortom, Ishaku over rejection of Ruga ranching initiative
Says Governors are deliberately stalling peace efforts
The Concerned Middle Belt Citizens Forum (CMBCF) has faulted Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, and his Taraba State counterpart, Darius Ishaku, for kicking against the planed Ruga settlement for pastoral herders.
Ortom and Ishaku had come out to voice their rejection of the imitative by the Buhari-led government with the aim of resolving the lingering herders/farmers crises.
National President of the CMBCF, Comrade Augustine Awulu, at a press conference on Wednesday, said the governor deliberately stalling peace efforts to end the ragging menace.
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target=_blank>Odumakin wants more govt. action to check drug abuse
A women’s rights activist, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has called for a state of emergency in the health sector in Nigeria, to check the menace of drug abuse and its effects.
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target=_blank>Yoruba youths mock breakaway Afenifere
A Yoruba youth group has mocked the breakaway faction of pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for deliberately trying to mislead Nigerians by quoting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo out of context.
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target=_blank>PDP blasts Buhari, APC over Osinbajo’s kidnapping comment
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, said the statement credited to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the spate of kidnapping in the country is a confirmation that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government holds no empathy for the pains and sufferings of Nigerians.
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target=_blank>Facebook’s Instagram expands ads to Explore feeds
Instagram said Wednesday it planned to launch advertising on its Explore page, expanding marketing opportunities on the Facebook-owned, visual-focused social network.
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target=_blank>Sanusi’s full speech on Nigeria ‘heading for bankruptcy’
The Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II, on Tuesday said that Nigeria is bankrupt and she is ‘heading for bankruptcy. What happened is that the federal government do pay petroleum subsidy, pay electricity tariff subsidy, and if there is a rise in interest rates, Federal Government pays.’
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target=_blank>My talk with Putin ‘none of your business’ – Trump
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Japan but told journalists that the contents of the talks are “none of your business.”
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target=_blank>Football: Africa Cup of Nations Group A results
Africa Cup of Nations Group A results at the Cairo International Stadium on Wednesday:
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FG moves to stop torture of suspects, says it’s unacceptable
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said it would move against any security agency in the country that is found complicit in the torture of suspects in custody
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