Latest News in Nigeria Today Saturday 21st September 2019
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target=_blank>Flood: Kebbi govt. earmarks N1.5bn to tackle emergencies
The Kebbi Government says it has earmarked N1.5 billion in anticipation of any emergencies that may arise from the envisaged flooding and other related emergencies in the state.
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target=_blank>UNDP releases $30m to Nigeria for humanitarian crisis in North East
The UN Development Programme (UNDP), has released 30 million U.S. dollars to Nigeria from the regional stabilisation facility for the humanitarian crisis in the North East
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target=_blank>ECOWAS reaffirms commitment to fight drug trafficking, related crime
Dr Siga Fatima Jagne, Commissioner, Social Affairs and Gender of ECOWAS Commission, on Thursday, reaffirmed the commission’s commitment to carry out action plans against drug trafficking and related crime in West African sub-region.
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target=_blank>Houthi rebels say they’ll end drone, missile attacks on Saudi Arabia
Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthi rebels said late Friday that they were halting drone and ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The Houthi rebels have claimed recent attacks on major Saudi oil facilities.
“We hope Riyadh will respond in a positive way to this initiative.
”And if Saudi Arabia does not respond to the initiative and resumes bombing, we will have the right to respond to it,” said Mahdi al-Mashat.
Al-Mashat is head of the so-called Supreme Houthi Political Council in a recorded speech broadcast by the movement’s Al-Masirah television.
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target=_blank>Olympic Judo champ Rafaela Silva admits positive drug test
Brazil’s Olympic judo champion Rafaela Silva on Friday admitted testing positive for the banned substance fenoterol, which is used to treat asthma, but insisted she was innocent.
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target=_blank>Katsina governor, Masari tasks women on good home training to promote decent society
The Katsina State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Masari has urged women in the state especially mothers to ensure proper home training for their children and wards to ensure a productive and crime-free society.
Masari made the call on Friday in Katsina at the opening of the 34th Annual National Conference of the Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN).
Represented by Alhaji Musa Rabiu, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Establishment and Training, the governor urged FOMWAN to evolve ways of making women to shun drug abuse so as to serve as role models in the society.
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E2%80%95fashola/ target=_blank>Nigeria committed to human capital, infrastructure development ?Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said on Friday that the present administration was committed to human capital, economic and infrastructure developments to boost Nigeria’s global competitiveness.
Fashola made the statement while delivering a keynote address on “How Government Policy Affects Business, Society in National Development and Changing International Environment” at the Lagos Business School.
Speaking during a session on Social, Political and Economic Environment of Business, the minister advised critics of the administration to always consider the nation’s peculiarities when judging policies.
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target=_blank>NGO establishes learning centre to curb Almajiris migration
A Non-governmental Organisation, KDC Foundation, has established a learning centre in Garun Malam local government area of Kano state as part of an effort to reduce almajiri migration to tsangaya schools in the city.
Inaugurating the learning centre, the Project Coordinator of the NGO, Alhaji Khalifa Dankadai, said the aim was to decongest the already existing Almajiri tsangaya schools in the urban centres.
According to him, “Our concern for the welfare and future of the almajiris, initiated the idea to establish the centres in many parts of the state.”
He said that the organisation had inaugurated a supervisory committee from the community to monitor the centre and sustain its activities.
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target=_blank>Zamfara APC sets up committee for party development plan
The Zamfara Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has sets up a nine-man technical committee to draft development plans of the party in the state.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state chairman of the party, Alhaji Lawal Liman, inaugurated the committee at the party secretariat in Gusau on Friday.
Liman said that Alhaji Musa Mallaha, the state Deputy Chairman of the party was appointed as Chairman of the Committee.
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Zamfara police recover 100 assorted guns from bandits
The Zamfara Police Command has recovered a total of 100 guns from repentant local militia group members in the state.
The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Nagogo made this disclosure at a news conference held at the Command Headquarters in Gusau on Friday.
The commissioner said even though the weapons consisted of locally made Dane guns, “they are of different calibre and are much of the imitation of AK 47, RPG, LMC and other sophisticated weapons that are of mass destruction.
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