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    Business BOA debunks 325 staff disengagement allegation – Newtelegraph

    The Management of Bank of Agriculture, (BOA), yesterday in Kaduna debunked allegations that the institution terminated the appointment of 325 employees within its work force. The company disclosed that the said employees were from the non-core sector of the organization and were disengaged in...
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    Business Power: ‘70% of revenue losses come from unmetered consumers’ – Punch Newspapers

    The highest amount of revenue losses in Nigeria’s power sector come from areas that have high concentration of unmetered electricity consumers. It was also gathered that about 70 per cent of revenue losses recorded by power distribution companies were from these areas. The Executive Director...
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    Business Stock market sheds N12bn in 4th day fall – Newtelegraph

    The Nigerian equity market yesterday tumbled for the fourth consecutive trading day, as sell pressure was unabated, producing 19 losers against 16 gainers. Key market indicators, the NSE ASI declined by 0.09 per cent, as bargain hunters continued to remain on the sideline following growing...
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    Business Electricity workers protest colleagues’ sacking, picket Ikeja Electric – Punch Newspapers

    The Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees on Wednesday staged a protest against the alleged sacking of 40 workers of Ikeja Electric Plc, and laid siege to the company’s headquarters in Alausa, Ikeja and all its other offices across Lagos State. The union members … Read more via Punch...
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    Business 9Mobile: NCC conducts fresh due diligence on preferred bidder – Punch Newspapers

    The Nigerian Communications Commission says it is conducting another round of due diligence on the preferred bidder for 9Mobile, Teleology Holdings Limited. The due diligence will determine whether the bid winner has the technical capacity as well as the financial resources to successfully run...
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    Sports Ogba Condoles with Kenya over Death of Former World Champion – Thisdaylive

    The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the recently concluded 21st African Senior Athletics Championships, has expressed deep shock at the news of the sudden death of Kenyan athlete, Nicholas Kiplagat Bett. Bett passed away yesterday morning, a day after returning from Asaba, Delta State...
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    Sports Giwa Faction Invades NFF as DSS Withdraws from Glass House – Thisdaylive

    Three members of the factional board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) headed by Chris Giwa, wednesday visited the NFF’s Glass House secretariat in Wuse Zone 7, Abuja, with the intension to take possession of the football house. Sani Ferma, Dr Shehu Adamu and Yahaya … read more via...
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    Sports Save Nigeria football, Clergy tells Osibanjo – Vanguard News

    Apostle Tommy Yisa Aika, the General Overseer of the Glory Church of Christ in Egor, Edo State, has appealed to the acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to intervene in the leadership crisis that is presently rocking the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).... read more via Vanguard News...
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    Sports ‘I am happy to write my name in gold on home soil’ – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    Since she broke into the senior national team in 2014, long jumper, Ese Brume has maintained a steady rise on the … read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News – https://ift.tt/2Mj16aw Get More Nigeria Sports News
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    Metro Lions Club Sponsors Cornea Transplant of Five Nigerians in Kenya – Thisdaylive

    Five less-privileged young Nigerians were helped to regain their lost sight and hope after undergoing successful cornea grafting facilitated by the Lions Club... Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2OoAq5d Get More Nigeria Metro News
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    Metro Lagos Community Where Pregnant Women Opt for Unorthodox Antenatal – Thisdaylive

    Abike Ahmed is an expectant mother, who is six months gone already. In those six months, Ahmed has not visited a hospital for the much needed ante-natal or a health centre. As one of the inhabitants of Irede community, a riverine community at Abule-Osu, which is off the Lagos-Badagry...
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    Metro Osun to Deepen Revenue Generation with ICT – Thisdaylive

    Having realised the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in advancing development and empowering the people, the Osun State government has said it is investing in technology that will help the state increase its revenue generation and at the same time empower its citizens to...
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    Metro Lawyers and violence : The corruption within exposed – Vanguard News

    It is no news that there is violence and corruption within the Nigerian Bar Association. But the real question is Why? In every association, there is bound to be disagreements and differences of opinions; however, should … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2B2FZVw Get More...
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    Metro Are you drinking too much? – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    I’m sure this isn’t going to be a very popular article as a lot of you may not want to read this truth. But in a country where alcoholism pretty much goes unchecked, someone has to say it. We drink way … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News –...
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    Politics Operating surplus: Defaulting MDAs may face sanctions – Punch Newspapers

    The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, wants sanctions to be imposed on the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government that fail to remit their operating surplus appropriately to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Speaking at the inauguration of a new template for the calculation...
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    Politics Court Orders IGP To Produce INEC Chairman – Leadership Newspaper

    Justice Stephen Pam of a Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Inspector General of Police to produce the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in court on August 14. The court gave the order after Mr Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, counsel to …...
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    Politics Police Invite Senator Hunkuyi, Ango Over Alleged Land Fraud – Leadership Newspaper

    The Nigeria Police Force has invited Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi and the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Kaduna chapter, Mr Adamu Ango for interaction in connection with a N369million failed project. The invitation followed a petition on a construction project of a shopping complex on a...
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    Politics INEC assures of readiness for Kogi by-election – Vanguard News

    Ahead of Saturday’s Lokoja/Kogi Federal constituency by-election, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has vowed to conduct credible polls. The Resident Electoral Commissio-ner, Professor James Apam, who stated this yesterday during a stakeholders … Read more via Vanguard News –...
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    Politics Ganduje Condemns NASS Invasion – Leadership Newspaper

    Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has condemned the invasion of the National Assembly complex by men of the Department of State Services( DSS), saying that the legislature must be allowed to operate according to law..... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2vBCU9N Get...
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    World World at risk of irreversible hot temperature, report reveals – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

    As the sun grows brighter at a rate of roughly 10 percent every billion years, Earth will respond by decreasing its own ‘warming blanket’ of atmospheric carbon dioxide. …Over time, the temperature of the Earth will dramatically raise as … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria...
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