Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 31st December 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Thursday 31st December 2020 .
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Botswana, Namibia call for calm amid tension over shooting of nationals
Botswana and Namibia called on their citizens to remain calm and patient after fatal shootings in November of three Namibian nationals and one Zambian national by the Botswana Defence Force. In the statement by the two heads of state, the two sides underscored the deepening bilateral relations and conveyed their commitment to resolving the matterRead More
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Plateau Govt shifts date for reopening of tertiary schools
The Plateau Government has directed tertiary institutions to resume on Jan. 18, as against the Jan. 4 date earlier announced. Mr Kakmena Audu, the Plateau Commissioner for Higher Education gave the directive in a statement on Thursday in Jos. He said the decision to shift the resumption date was in line with the directive ofRead More
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NCDC announces 1,016 new COVID-19 cases as total rises to 86,576
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1,016 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The country has so far tested 938,602 persons since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in Feb. 27. The agency saidRead More
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China approves its first coronavirus vaccine, from Sinopharm
China has approved for conditional use its first coronavirus vaccine, developed by state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. The approval, announced by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, has come a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine was found to be 79.3-per-cent effective in preliminary data from the final round of testing. READRead More
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Border closure, effects and curbing recurrence
News Analysis by Emmanuella Anokam of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) President Muhammadu Buhari on Dec. 16 ordered the immediate reopening of four critical land borders which have been shut since Aug. 20, 2019. The land borders approved for immediate re-opening were Seme in the Southwest, Ilela in the Northwest, Maigatari in the North-WestRead More
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Kwara promotes 1,600 civil servants
The Kwara Civil Service Commission has promoted more than 1,600 civil servants who passed the 2019 promotion examination and oral interview. Commission Chair Habeebat Yusuf stated this on Wednesday in Ilorin in a statement. The statement said that the promoted officers were from different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and were from Grade Level 07Read More
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World to mark locked-down New Year’s Eve
The world readied to usher in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid virus-ridden 2020 farewell. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed lockdowns and forced would-be revellers to extend theirRead More
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2020: Nigeria’s stock market upbeat as year ends, despite COVID-19
The year 2020, no doubt, will remain peculiar in the annals of the Nigerian capital market, and indeed all sectors of the economy, both locally and globally. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) bore its fangs across the world in 2020, so much that the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic in March. It forcedRead More
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NLC expresses shock over sack of 2,414 teachers in Kwara
Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has expressed shock over the decision of the kwara State government to disengage 2,414 teachers employed by the immediate past administration. In a statement yesterday by its chairman, Issa Ore, the union said that the decision to sack that large number of workers was too harsh on the affected people, theirRead More
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2020 UTME: No date fixed for sales of application documents yet — JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, yesterday, says no date has been fixed for the commencement of sales of the application documents for its 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Lagos. Benjamin, who was speaking against the backdropRead More
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