08 Sep ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: FRIDAY
🌎President Bola Tinubu, who is currently in India for the G-20 Summit, shared his conviction with Nigerians during an interaction with them on Thursday evening. He called on Nigerians to harness the country’s rich diversity as a uniquely powerful tool for advancing prosperity and national development for the benefit of all citizens, emphasizing that our diversity must be leveraged to drive economic growth, innovation, and social progress.
🌎Oil prices were stable on Friday, as investors weighed fears about the health of China’s economy against supply cuts from major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia. Brent crude futures edged 7 cents lower to $89.85 a barrel by 0826 GMT.
The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, has ordered the deactivation of some banks over their failure to remit duties collected.
🌎The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says flight operations have been moved from the old terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, to the new one (terminal two). In a statement on Thursday, the agency also urged travellers to arrive at the airport three hours before departure.
🌎The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said the banks’ N120bn Unstructured Supplementary Service Data debt owed telecommunication firms is slowing down financial inclusion.
🌎The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has denied it’s against the sales of Shares Of Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited to Oando Plc, saying that the purported letter written by the company was a routine communication in the form of a letter written by NNPC E&P Limited (NEPL) to its JV Partner, Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited (NAOC).
🌎The military on Thursday said its operations across the Niger Delta region have denied oil thieves from stealing crude oil estimated at N4bn from the country. The command said within this period, over 6.6 million litres of stolen crude oil; 3.5 million litres of AGO; 200,000 litres of DPK, and over 65,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirits were recovered from oil thieves within the period under review.
🌎Security Stories: The operations of troops across the six geopolitical zones from June to August 2023 reveal that we neutralised 814 terrorists and arrested 1,326 criminals. We arrested 42 kidnappers, 231 collaborators,
*Nigeria has experienced economic loss to the tune of $100 billion due to the decade-long conflict in the country’s northeast region, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
*The Katsina State chapter of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has revealed that 83 health workers have been abducted by terrorists between 2015 to 2023 across the state.
*The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested 13 suspected kidnappers and killed four in the past 30 days.
🌎Russia-Ukraine War: A drone attack caused an explosion in the vicinity of Russia’s Southern Military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, according to social media videos.
*US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Kyiv this week. On Wednesday, he announced $1 billion in fresh US support for Ukraine, including military, humanitarian and budgetary assistance. On Thursday, he visited the border guards and a de-mining center.
*Ukraine is “slowly gaining ground” in its counteroffensive despite difficult fighting, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
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