Nigeria news today headlines : Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Contentious NCDC Bill Appears In Senate With Different Title
SAMUEL OGIDAN; AHMED MUSA – The House of Representatives’ controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020, known as the compulsory vaccine Bill, has resurfaced in the upper chamber of the National Assembly with a different title. The bill, which has been generating controversy in the nation, came to the Senate with a title, ‘National Health …
COVID-19 Patients Hit The Streets, Protest Neglect In Gombe
WILLIAM ATTAH; CHIOMA UMEHA; VICTORIA OJUGBANA; SEGUN OLANIYAN GOMBE / LAGOS / KATSINA – No fewer than 20 persons confirmed to be COVID-19 positive from two isolation centres in Gombe, Tuesday afternoon, blocked the Gombe-Biu highway to protest alleged negligence and poor treatment by the State Task Force Committee on COVID-19. About nineteen persons isolated …
Buhari, Atiku, Ibori, Jonathan Pay Tribute To Yar’Adua, Salute His Sincerity
President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Atiku Abubakar, Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, and former President Goodluck Jonathan have extolled the virtues of the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who also served as governor of Katsina State for eight years, saluting his honest and sincere service to the country. Malam Garba Shehu, …
Unions Raise The Alarm Over Planned Salary, Job Cuts In Oil Industry
LAGOS – The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), on Tuesday, raised the alarm over attempt by multinational and indigenous oil and gas companies to exploit the current COVID-19 pandemic to rationalise, downsize, sack, introduce precarious/indecent work system or reduce …
Senate Wants Decentralisation Of Police, Community Policing
ABUJA – As a way of addressing the country’s problem of insecurity, the upper chamber of the National Assembly has called for the decentralisation of the Nigeria Police Force and the need for community policing. This formed part of the recommendations of the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Nigeria Security Challenges, which was considered and approved …
FG To Further Reduce Oil Benchmark To $20, Seek Debt Rescheduling
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it is considering adjusting further the benchmark crude oil price in the 2020 budget down to $20 per barrel. In the budget assented into law by President Muhammadu Buhari last December, crude oil benchmark price was put at $57 per barrel. Following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, …
Hurdles Before Akeredolu As Ondo Governorship Poll Beckons
Barring any change of date by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the governorship election in Ondo State will hold on October 10 this year. The incumbent, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN would slug it out with other members of the party for the sole ticket of the party. Others who have shown interest in the ticket …
COVID-19: Obaseki, Oshiomhole Bicker Over Lockdown Violation
LAGOS – While many states in Nigeria are struggling to battle the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of party politics seems to have been shoved aside, as what appears to top the agenda of many of them is how to bring an end to the deadly pandemic. The same may not be …
NIS Generates Over N62.6bn, $41.832m In 2019 – Babandede
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede yesterday stated that NIS has generated over N62.6 billion and 41.83 million dollars in 2019. Babandede , who made the disclosure at the public presentation of the fourth edition of NIS annual report since the commencement of the administration in 2016 on Tuesday in Abuja, …
Oil Prices Rise As Countries Take Measures To Ease Lockdown
Oil prices climbed in early trade yesterday adding to gains in the previous session, on expectations that fuel demand will begin to pick up as some U.S. states and nations in Europe and Asia start to ease coronavirus lockdown measures. West Texas Intermediate WTI, crude futures increased as much as 8.2 per cent to a …
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