LATEST NEWS IN NIGERIA TODAY

LATEST NEWS IN NIGERIA TODAY

1. More tributes have kept on pouring in for previous Super Eagles skipper and mentor, Stephen Okechuukwu  Keshi.

Nigerians, especially, online networking clients have approached the government to rename the Abuja national stadium after the late football symbol, who drove Nigeria to triumph at two countries container,

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Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has uncovered that contractual workers will profit to work for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway one week from now.

Fashola, who talked at the inaugural Buharimeter Town Hall meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said contractual workers had surrendered a few tasks on the grounds that the last organization owed them cash.

3. The Department of Security Services (DSS) has crushed an ISIS preparing cells in Kano. The State Director of DSS, Abdullahi Bello Chiranchi, said that the capture was an astounding leap forward at baffling move by terrorists to make Kano an ISIS preparing ground.

4. The previous Senate President, David Mark of PDP has approached the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Makurdi to junk an appeal against him by Mr Daniel Onjeh of APC.

Counsel for Mark, Kenneth Ikonne contended that the solicitor should have recorded inside 21-days of the date of the announcement of results by INEC however neglected to consent.

5. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has revealed that Federal Government (FG) will begin the principal take off of its N500 billion intercession plan on June 11.

The minister who made the divulgence at the inaugural "Buharimeter Town lobby Meeting'', composed by the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), in Abuja, noticed that the administration would on Saturday open a web entry named "npower.gov.ng'' and begin taking applications for the 500,000 direct instructor work plan.

6. President Muhammadu Buhari, has transmitted 47 names of Nigerians to be designated as Ambassadors to the Senate for thought and endorsement.

The letter, which was perused by Senate President, Bukola  was coming following one year into this organization.

7. The Niger Delta activists have exploded another oil office suspected to have a place with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, around Ogidigben, Warri South West Council in Delta State. It was accumulated that the episode happened along the Chanomi Creek around Ogidigben range around 8.00 pm yesterday

8. The United States (U.S.) authorities have said "there is no proof that Boko Haram has gotten huge operational backing or financing from Islamic State (IS).

The authorities said over a year after the gathering's promise of dependability, it had no connection with IS, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

9. Equity Chukwu Evoh, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, is dead.

Chukwu, until his demise managed a charged imitation argument founded against Senate President, Bukola
Saraki and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by the Senate Unity Forum, with individuals incorporate Senators Kabiru Marafa, Suleiman Hunkuyi, among others.