NEWS FROM NIGERIA TODAY

The following are current news from Nigeria. If you follow events happening in Nigeria, the following will interest you.
- Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria, yesterday their counterparts the world  over, to celebrate this  year's Eid-El-Fitri. Eid al-Fitri is an essential religious occasion celebrated by Muslims worldwide that denote the end of Ramadan, the Islamic blessed month of fasting. 

- It was without a doubt a tragic Salah for Lagosians on Wednesday as a 40 feet truck lost its brake and slammed into a bus with registration number EPE 972 XH, and in addition okada riders at a Bus stop, killing no less than three persons. The episode was affirmed by Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).


 The death has been reported of a previous presidential hopeful in the third republic, Umaru Shinkafi. Shinkafi died on Wednesday in at a London medical facility at around 4:00pm Nigerian time, after he lost the battle with  an undisclosed Sickness.

- Barcelona and Argentina football genius, Lionel and his dad, Jorge Horacio Messi were on Wednesday sentenced to 21 months in prison by a Spanish court for tax evasion. They were additionally given a fine of 3.7 million euros, about $4.1 million. 

-  The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, again exploded a Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipeline at Eleme, connecting the Nigeria Liquefied National Gas, NLNG, in Rivers State. The activists disclosed that they were responsible for the assault by means of its Facebook page NDavengers on Wednesday, promising to bring about more devastation if the central government neglected to do the needful. 

-  Nigeria may soon come back to another period of fuel lack as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), different individuals from the oil and gas industry, for example, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), have reported arrangements to go on strike.
An announcement signed by the National Public Relations Officer, PENGASSAN, Comrade Emmanuel Ojugbana, approached all directors and secretaries in the four zones and branches to down apparatuses with immediate effect. 

- Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, has disproved the cases in a few quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration just supports a specific segment of the nation in his arrangement of officers in this way. Enang contended that Buhari is a man of rule who does not endure nepotism. 

- The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said that no bank in the nation is right now distressed. CBN, in an announcement by its acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, said the replacement  of members of the  Board and administration for Skye Bank Plc was a proactive stride to guarantee the bank stayed solid. 

-Suspected political hooligans, Wednesday, assaulted the vehicle of Governor Mohammed Abubakar, when he was  leaving the Bauchi Eid prayer ground, along Bakaro street in the zone. The hooligans vandalized the vehicle conveying members of Government House  press corps, denting the back screen beyond repairs. 

- Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari was utilizing a similarly "degenerate" Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to battle corruption. As indicated by him, the President must begin the fight against corruption,  from his party and his close associates, since charity starts at home.