Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Friday 12th April 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>Two UNILAG students arraigned for attempted rape of coursemate
Two University of Lagos students, who allegedly attempted to rape their coursemate were yesterday arraigned at a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos on a five-count charge. The accused persons, Ikedi Okpanlanedu (21), and Samuel Idongesit (20) are facing charges of conspiracy, attempted rape, assault, impersonation and threatening violence. Police Sgt. Modupe Olaluwoye, prosecuting the
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target=_blank>Consortium to reduce environmental footprint in rice
A new global consortium, the Sustainable Rice Landscapes Initiative, is bringing together expertise from international organisations, research institutions and business groups with significant market influence to tackle the enormous environmental footprint of rice production, members of the partnership have said. The new consortium will introduce sustainable approaches to farming practices, incentivise production and demand
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target=_blank>Agabi: Nigeria’s democracy threatened by absence of opposition
Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Kanu Agabi, yesterday decried the absence of strong opposition parties in the country, saying such a situation was a threat to democracy. Agabi also noted with sadness, the new phenomenon of vote-buying in the political process, lamenting that democracy was being twisted to suit only those who have
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target=_blank>Gbagyi youths storm NASS, protest kinsmen’s killing
Abuja indigenes under the aegis of Movement of Gbagyi Youths from Tungan Maje area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday marched on the National Assembly Complex. They were protesting the killing of their kinsmen by the men of the Nigerian Army over land issue. There has been a lingering land dispute between the indigenes
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target=_blank>UTME: Candidates barred from exams over finger print
As the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joints Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) commenced nationwide yesterday at several designated Computer Based (CBT) Centres in country, many candidates in Oyo State could not write the examination following the failure of the thumb-printing machine to recognise their fingers. Over 1.8 million candidates seeking
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target=_blank>Reps lay 3,010 report on auditor’s queries
The House of Representatives yesterday commenced the laying of reports of its Committee on Public Accounts (PAC). .Laying the three-volume report on the floor of the House on yesterday, Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers) noted that the committee was set to present three different reports, beginning from 2010 with the rest
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target=_blank>Resident doctors protest seven months arrears in Rivers
Resident Doctors at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, former Braithwaite Memorial Hospital (BMH) yesterday protested at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital, over non-payment of their seven months’ salary arrears. The protesters, who dressed in white medical outfits, claimed that they have worked and put in their best at the hospital without
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target=_blank>Driver wins State House outstanding performance award
The Servicom Unit of State House yesterday rewarded 10 members of staff including a shuttle bus driver, Yahim Nuhu, with various cash awards for outstanding performance. Deputy Director (Information), at the state house, Abiodun Oladunjoye, in a statement said the staff drawn from administration, stores management, catering, library, transportation and medical departments received an undisclosed
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target=_blank>DNA: Innocent moms on trial
Mothers, we are sorry! Unreserved apologies to the innocent mothers who had shamefully and wrongfully been accused of infidelity on account of any of their children whose DNA tests failed to match with that of their ‘fathers.’ Most of these women did not only lose their homes as a result of the embarrassing outcome, unfortunately,
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Groups protest spate of cult killings in Edo
Civil Society groups in Edo State, under the aegis of the Legends Anti-Violence Foundation, yesterday protested the spate of killings by members of bloody rival secret cults in some parts of the state. This was as the group expressed worry over what they described as the alarming wave of killings in which more than 200 […]
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