05 Jan ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS :Tuesday
🌍 UNILORIN, UNIBEN, BUK announce resumption dates
🌍FG has released N5 billion for the ailing aviation industry.
🌍The Nigerian stock market began the year in green as market capitalisation increased by ₦458.4 billion to settle at ₦21.5 trillion while the Year to Date return rose to 2.2 per cent.
🌍Oil Monitor: In inverse movement oil prices changed a little early Tuesday after OPEC and allied producers, including Russia, continued deadlocked talks on February output while fuel demand concerns lingered on amid new COVID-19 lockdowns. Brent crude futures for March rose 8 cents, or 0.2%, to $51.17 a barrel by 0206 GMT; it fell more than 1% on Monday after OPEC+ failed to agree on February’s oil output levels.
* Disagreement over production yesterday delayed a decision at the OPEC+ meeting.
🌍COVID-19 Update: In numbers, reports, as well testimonies of victims like ace comedian Ali Baba, the pandemic is worsening in Nigeria. Yesterday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 1,204 new cases, a new record daily count of infections. The chain of deaths also continued with 7 recorded on Monday.
* The new national totals are 91351 confirmed cases; 75699 recoveries and 1318 deaths in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
* Women Affairs Minister Pauline Tallen has tested negative after being treated for the disease.
*Comedian Ali Baba dispels conspiracy theories about coronavirus with his experience, says it is real.
* Lagos, Enugu have announced January 18, 2020 as the resumption date for all public and private schools in the state.
* British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced a new national lockdown with people instructed to “stay at home” as they did during March’s first lockdown.
* FG on Monday, ruled out any plan to impose a fresh lockdown on Nigeria as the country battles the second wave of the pandemic, but with the worsening situation caused by poor enforcement of protocols, this may be a hasty decision – like the Trump option.
* Immigration now enforcing ban on travellers for violating COVID-19 protocols
🌍BUA Cement Plc, one of Africa’s largest cement companies, has concluded its N115 billion Series 1 Fixed Rate Senior Unsecured Bond Issue under its maiden N200 billion Bond Issuance Programme.
🌍CBN has instructed lending institutions to obtain reports of borrowers from credit bureaus as part of their due diligence in granting loans.
🌍Intels Nigeria Limited has explained it severed ties with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, one of its major shareholders, after he sold off his shares and exited the company in 2020.
🌍A Magistrate court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Omoyele Sowore and four others at Kuje Correctional Centre.
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